MLS Information Systems and Technology 5

Question 1

Which file format is specifically designed for encoding finding aids for archival collections and uses a hierarchical XML structure?

Accepted Answer

EAD (Encoded Archival Description)

Answer

EAD is an XML standard maintained by the Library of Congress for encoding archival finding aids, capturing the hierarchical arrangement of archival collections.

Question 2

A library's website experiences a sudden spike in traffic that exhausts server resources. Which architecture pattern best mitigates this through automatic resource scaling?

Accepted Answer

Cloud-based auto-scaling with a load balancer

Answer

Cloud auto-scaling dynamically provisions additional server instances in response to demand spikes and distributes traffic through a load balancer.

Question 3

In digital preservation, what does the OAIS (Open Archival Information System) model call the package of content submitted by a producer to the archive?

Accepted Answer

Submission Information Package (SIP)

Answer

The SIP is the information package delivered by a producer (depositor) to the OAIS archive for ingestion and preservation.

Question 4

Which index structure does most modern full-text search software (e.g., Solr, Elasticsearch) rely on for fast keyword lookup?

Accepted Answer

Inverted index

Answer

An inverted index maps each unique term to a list of documents containing it, enabling extremely fast full-text search across large corpora.

Question 5

A cataloger wants to express that two different FRBR Works are translations of each other using BIBFRAME. Which property should be used?

Accepted Answer

bf:translationOf

Answer

BIBFRAME defines bf:translationOf as the specific relationship property linking a translated Work back to the original Work it was derived from.

MLS - Master of Library and Information Science Practice Test

MLS - Master of Library and Information Science Practice Test

MLS Information Systems and Technology 5