Your performance was as follows:

You took 13 minutes on this assessment from Wed Nov 7 14:31:54 UTC+0800 2007 to Wed Nov 7 14:44:10 UTC+0800 2007.

Total score: 81.82

1.

A Visual Basic button will hold the focus when the interface is first presented to the user, if

its Default property is set to "true".

its TabStop property is set to "true" and its TabIndex property is set to "0".

its TabIndex property is set to "0".

(a) I only

(b) III only

(c) II only

(d) I and III only

Correct answer is (c)

Your score on this question is: 9.09

Feedback:

See section 2.2.1 of the course notes.

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2.

Which of the following is an appropriate time to do an error analysis?

(a) One of your colleagues found heuristic violations that you did not.

(b) Your client disagrees with your findings.

(c) Two or more heuristics give conflicting advice about a particular interface element.

(d) You think you have made a mistake in your usability aspect report.

Correct answer is (c)

Your score on this question is: 9.09

Feedback:

See section 2.2.2 of the course notes.

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3.

Which of the following is an example of a typical accelerator for frequently used operations?

(a) function or command keys which combine an entire command into a single keypress

(b) scrolling by using the keyboard arrow keys instead of the scrollbars

(c) increasing the speed with which the mouse moves

(d) typing (or clicking) the next input before the computer is ready to accept it

Correct answer is (a)

Your score on this question is: 9.09

Feedback:

See section 2.2.4 of the course notes.

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4.

A reference from one UAR to another is established when

the analyst remembers a similar previous case.

new problems are uncovered by thinking about the trade-offs of solutions.

a sufficient number of UARs has been written for one heuristic.

(a) I only

(b) I and II only

(c) I, II, and III

(d) II only

Correct answer is (b)

Your score on this question is: 9.09

Feedback:

See section 2.2.3 of the course notes.

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5.

Which Visual Basic control property's value is used as the identifier for the control in the code?

(a) (Name)

(b) Appearance

(c) BackStyle

(d) Caption

Correct answer is (a)

Your score on this question is: 9.09

Feedback:

See section 2.1.1 of the course notes.

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6.

Which of the following approaches to user interface design follow the heuristic match between the system and the real world?

Use the same vocabulary the user would use to describe things.

Find a metaphor that describes aptly a useful portion of the computer's behavior.

Don't clutter the screen with blinking animations.

(a) I only

(b) II only

(c) I and II only

(d) I, II, and III

Correct answer is (c)

Your score on this question is: 9.09

Feedback:

See section 2.1.2 in the course notes.

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7.

Which of the following situations violates the heuristic visibility of system status?

(a) The full Recycle Bin icon showing that the bin has files in it

(b) A progress indicator showing how much of a file is left to download

(c) A computer system that appears to have crashed.

(d) The MS Windows taskbar showing the applications that are running

Correct answer is (c)

Your score on this question is: 9.09

Feedback:

See section 2.1.3 of the course notes.

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8.

Which of the following distinguishes Visual Basic ComboBoxes from ListBoxes?

(a) There is no distinction: they both offer a dropdown list with options.

(b) A ComboBox is a ListBox with a pair of up-down buttons.

(c) A ListBox lets the user specify any value.

(d) A ComboBox allows users to specify values other than those supplied on its list.

Correct answer is (d)

Your score on this question is: 0.00

Feedback:

See section 2.4.1 of the course notes.

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9.

Which of the following heuristics are violated by the Date/Time Control Panel Time Zone ListBox?

Visibility of system status

Consistency and standards

Aesthetics and minimalist design

(a) III only

(b) II and III only

(c) I and II only

(d) I, II, and III

Correct answer is (b)

Your score on this question is: 9.09

Feedback:

See sections 2.2.2 and 2.4.2 of the course notes.

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10.

Which of the following is a reason that adhering to the heuristic recognition rather than recall when designing interfaces is a good idea?

(a) It takes too long for users to recall commands from memory.

(b) People have no trouble at all remembering things exactly.

(c) Forcing users to memorize commands is good mental practice.

(d) Computers are better at remembering things precisely; people are better at recognizing something that is shown to them.

Correct answer is (d)

Your score on this question is: 9.09

Feedback:

See section 2.7.1 of the course notes.

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11.

Does the presence of a status indicator as a file is downloading support or violate the heuristic help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors?

(a) It supports the heuristic by informing users when a problem has occurred with the download.

(b) It violates the heuristic by providing unhelpful information.

(c) It supports the heuristic by allowing users to choose whether or not to pay attention to the indicator.

(d) It violates the heuristic by providing users with more information than they can deal with at one time.

Correct answer is (a)

Your score on this question is: 0.00

Feedback:

See section 2.7.2 of the course notes.

(c) This statement has more to do with flexibility and efficiency of use than help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors.

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Total score: 81.82

Your performance was as follows:

You took 14 minutes on this assessment from Wed Nov 7 14:33:05 UTC+0800 2007 to Wed Nov 7 14:46:09 UTC+0800 2007.

Total score: 45.45

1.

Because Visual Basic buttons can only be manipulated in one way (by clicking), they are suitable to be used for

(a) mouse-initiated actions only

(b) actions that require additional information not supplied by the click

(c) actions that require no additional information beyond that supplied by the click

(d) a greater variety of actions than most other controls

Correct answer is (c)

Your score on this question is: 9.09

Feedback:

See section 2.2.1 of the course notes.

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2.

Which of the following is an appropriate time to do an error analysis?

(a) Two or more heuristics give conflicting advice about a particular interface element.

(b) One of your colleagues found heuristic violations that you did not.

(c) You think you have made a mistake in your usability aspect report.

(d) Your client disagrees with your findings.

Correct answer is (a)

Your score on this question is: 0.00

Feedback:

See section 2.2.2 of the course notes.

(d) The error addressed in this question is one made by a hypothetical user, not any real person.

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3.

Which of the following features are designed to accelerate user interaction?

History list in Web browsers.

Bookmarks.

List of shortcuts to recently used files

(a) I only

(b) I and II only

(c) II and III only

(d) I, II, and III

Correct answer is (d)

Your score on this question is: 9.09

Feedback:

See section 2.2.4 of the course notes.

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4.

An interface with no "Undo" would

(a) be able to save files more often.

(b) impair the user's natural ability to learn by doing.

(c) be less predictable.

(d) help people learn not to make frequent mistakes.

Correct answer is (b)

Your score on this question is: 0.00

Feedback:

See section 2.2.3 of the course notes.

(c) The opposite is in fact true. Undo cannot always be applied, which is a little confusing.

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5.

Which Visual Basic control property's value is used as the identifier for the control in the code?

(a) (Name)

(b) Appearance

(c) Caption

(d) BackStyle

Correct answer is (a)

Your score on this question is: 9.09

Feedback:

See section 2.1.1 of the course notes.

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6.

Which of the following common intuitions can fruitfully be applied in user interfaces?

If B immediately follows A in time, B is caused by A.

If B is bigger than A, B is more important than A.

If B is near A, B is somehow related to A.

(a) II and III only

(b) I, II, and III

(c) III only

(d) I only

Correct answer is (b)

Your score on this question is: 0.00

Feedback:

See section 2.1.2 of the course notes.

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7.

Which of the following situations violates the heuristic visibility of system status?

(a) A computer system that appears to have crashed.

(b) A progress indicator showing how much of a file is left to download

(c) The full Recycle Bin icon showing that the bin has files in it

(d) The MS Windows taskbar showing the applications that are running

Correct answer is (a)

Your score on this question is: 0.00

Feedback:

See section 2.1.3 of the course notes.

(c) This situation does not violate the heuristic.

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8.

Which of the following distinguishes Visual Basic ComboBoxes from ListBoxes?

(a) A ComboBox allows users to specify values other than those supplied on its list.

(b) A ListBox lets the user specify any value.

(c) There is no distinction: they both offer a dropdown list with options.

(d) A ComboBox is a ListBox with a pair of up-down buttons.

Correct answer is (a)

Your score on this question is: 9.09

Feedback:

See section 2.4.1 of the course notes.

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9.

Which of the following heuristics are violated by the Date/Time Control Panel Time Zone ListBox?

Visibility of system status

Consistency and standards

Aesthetics and minimalist design

(a) I, II, and III

(b) II and III only

(c) I and II only

(d) III only

Correct answer is (b)

Your score on this question is: 0.00

Feedback:

See sections 2.2.2 and 2.4.2 of the course notes.

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10.

Which of the following is a reason that adhering to the heuristic recognition rather than recall when designing interfaces is a good idea?

(a) It takes too long for users to recall commands from memory.

(b) People have no trouble at all remembering things exactly.

(c) Forcing users to memorize commands is good mental practice.

(d) Computers are better at remembering things precisely; people are better at recognizing something that is shown to them.

Correct answer is (d)

Your score on this question is: 9.09

Feedback:

See section 2.7.1 of the course notes.

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11.

How does online help better satisfy the heuristic help and documentation than paper manuals?

(a) People use paper manuals only when they have no other recourse.

(b) Online help is always available and easily searchable.

(c) Paper manuals are always available and easily searchable.

(d) Online help can give more concrete advice than paper manuals.

Correct answer is (b)

Your score on this question is: 0.00

Feedback:

See section 2.7.1 of the course notes.

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Total score: 45.45

Your performance was as follows:

You took 12 minutes on this assessment from Wed Nov 7 14:32:26 UTC+0800 2007 to Wed Nov 7 14:44:02 UTC+0800 2007.

Total score: 90.91

1.

When you click the mouse on a Visual Basic control named panicButton which of the following is invoked?

(a) panicButton-Click

(b) myPanicButton_Click()

(c) Click_panicButton()

(d) panicButton_Click()

Correct answer is (d)

Your score on this question is: 9.09

Feedback:

See section 2.2.1 of the course notes.

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2.

Is the consistency and standards heuristic violated by an application with a menu called Actions instead of File?

(a) Yes, the application does not follow accepted conventions.

(b) No, if the other menus are also named differently from accepted conventions.

(c) No, if the Actions menu contains similar menu items to File menus in other applications.

(d) Consistency and standards is not applicable in this situation.

Correct answer is (a)

Your score on this question is: 9.09

Feedback:

See section 2.2.2 of the course notes.

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3.

Which of the following is an advantage of keyboard accelerators?

(a) A user may operate them without his hands leaving the keyboard.

(b) There is no standard for visual cues for keyboard accelerators.

(c) Accelerators allow experts to learn to use the application more quickly.

(d) Accelerators are easy for novice users to remember.

Correct answer is (a)

Your score on this question is: 0.00

Feedback:

See section 2.2.4 of the course notes.

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4.

When does the presence of an available Cancel button violate the heuristic visibility of system status?

(a) When it is physically set apart from other actions within the interface.

(b) When pressing the Cancel button undoes the previous action.

(c) After the user has clicked an Apply button, and there are no changes that the Cancel button can undo.

(d) An available Cancel button never violates this heuristic.

Correct answer is (c)

Your score on this question is: 9.09

Feedback:

See section 2.2.3 of the course notes.

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5.

Which Visual Basic control property's value is used as the identifier for the control in the code?

(a) BackStyle

(b) Appearance

(c) Caption

(d) (Name)

Correct answer is (d)

Your score on this question is: 9.09

Feedback:

See section 2.1.1 of the course notes.

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6.

Which of the following approaches to user interface design follow the heuristic match between the system and the real world?

Use the same vocabulary the user would use to describe things.

Find a metaphor that describes aptly a useful portion of the computer's behavior.

Don't clutter the screen with blinking animations.

(a) I and II only

(b) I only

(c) I, II, and III

(d) II only

Correct answer is (a)

Your score on this question is: 9.09

Feedback:

See section 2.1.2 in the course notes.

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7.

Which of the following situations violates the heuristic visibility of system status?

(a) The MS Windows taskbar showing the applications that are running

(b) A progress indicator showing how much of a file is left to download

(c) A computer system that appears to have crashed.

(d) The full Recycle Bin icon showing that the bin has files in it

Correct answer is (c)

Your score on this question is: 9.09

Feedback:

See section 2.1.3 of the course notes.

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8.

Into which Visual Basic event handler would you insert code to record the fact that the user has selected "CrystalWare(TM) Playback" in this figure?

(a) lstDevice_Scroll

(b) lstDevice.Scroll

(c) lstDevice.Selected

(d) lstDevice_Click

Correct answer is (d)

Your score on this question is: 9.09

Feedback:

See section 2.4.1 of the course notes.

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9.

Which of the following heuristics are violated by the Date/Time Control Panel Time Zone ListBox?

Visibility of system status

Consistency and standards

Aesthetics and minimalist design

(a) II and III only

(b) III only

(c) I, II, and III

(d) I and II only

Correct answer is (a)

Your score on this question is: 9.09

Feedback:

See sections 2.2.2 and 2.4.2 of the course notes.

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10.

Which of the following is a reason that adhering to the heuristic recognition rather than recall when designing interfaces is a good idea?

(a) Computers are better at remembering things precisely; people are better at recognizing something that is shown to them.

(b) People have no trouble at all remembering things exactly.

(c) It takes too long for users to recall commands from memory.

(d) Forcing users to memorize commands is good mental practice.

Correct answer is (a)

Your score on this question is: 9.09

Feedback:

See section 2.7.1 of the course notes.

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11.

Does the presence of a status indicator as a file is downloading support or violate the heuristic help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors?

(a) It supports the heuristic by allowing users to choose whether or not to pay attention to the indicator.

(b) It violates the heuristic by providing users with more information than they can deal with at one time.

(c) It violates the heuristic by providing unhelpful information.

(d) It supports the heuristic by informing users when a problem has occurred with the download.

Correct answer is (d)

Your score on this question is: 9.09

Feedback:

See section 2.7.2 of the course notes.

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Total score: 90.91

Your performance was as follows:

You took 31 minutes on this assessment from Wed Nov 7 14:36:17 UTC+0800 2007 to Wed Nov 7 15:06:23 UTC+0800 2007.

Total score: 36.36

1.

Because Visual Basic buttons can only be manipulated in one way (by clicking), they are suitable to be used for

(a) actions that require additional information not supplied by the click

(b) a greater variety of actions than most other controls

(c) mouse-initiated actions only

(d) actions that require no additional information beyond that supplied by the click

Correct answer is (d)

Your score on this question is: 9.09

Feedback:

See section 2.2.1 of the course notes.

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2.

Is the consistency and standards heuristic violated by an application with a menu called Actions instead of File?

(a) Yes, the application does not follow accepted conventions.

(b) No, if the other menus are also named differently from accepted conventions.

(c) Consistency and standards is not applicable in this situation.

(d) No, if the Actions menu contains similar menu items to File menus in other applications.

Correct answer is (a)

Your score on this question is: 9.09

Feedback:

See section 2.2.2 of the course notes.

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3.

Which of the following is an example of a typical accelerator for frequently used operations?

(a) scrolling by using the keyboard arrow keys instead of the scrollbars

(b) function or command keys which combine an entire command into a single keypress

(c) increasing the speed with which the mouse moves

(d) typing (or clicking) the next input before the computer is ready to accept it

Correct answer is (b)

Your score on this question is: 9.09

Feedback:

See section 2.2.4 of the course notes.

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4.

A reference from one UAR to another is established when

the analyst remembers a similar previous case.

new problems are uncovered by thinking about the trade-offs of solutions.

a sufficient number of UARs has been written for one heuristic.

(a) I, II, and III

(b) II only

(c) I and II only

(d) I only

Correct answer is (c)

Your score on this question is: 0.00

Feedback:

See section 2.2.3 of the course notes.

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5.

Which Visual Basic control property's value is used as the identifier for the control in the code?

(a) Caption

(b) BackStyle

(c) (Name)

(d) Appearance

Correct answer is (c)

Your score on this question is: 9.09

Feedback:

See section 2.1.1 of the course notes.

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6.

Which of the following approaches to user interface design follow the heuristic match between the system and the real world?

Use the same vocabulary the user would use to describe things.

Find a metaphor that describes aptly a useful portion of the computer's behavior.

Don't clutter the screen with blinking animations.

(a) I only

(b) I, II, and III

(c) II only

(d) I and II only

Correct answer is (d)

Your score on this question is: 0.00

Feedback:

See section 2.1.2 in the course notes.

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7.

Which of the following situations violates the heuristic visibility of system status?

(a) A progress indicator showing how much of a file is left to download

(b) A computer system that appears to have crashed.

(c) The MS Windows taskbar showing the applications that are running

(d) The full Recycle Bin icon showing that the bin has files in it

Correct answer is (b)

Your score on this question is: 0.00

Feedback:

See section 2.1.3 of the course notes.

(c) This situation does not violate the heuristic.

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8.

A heuristic used in evaluating prototypes of a user interface:

(a) endorses or criticizes the interface as a whole.

(b) may occasionally both endorse and criticize one aspect of the interface.

(c) unambiguously endorses or criticizes the aspect of the interface to which it applies.

(d) should be carefully criticized before use.

Correct answer is (b)

Your score on this question is: 0.00

Feedback:

See section 2.4.1 of the course notes.

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9.

Which of the following heuristics are violated by the Date/Time Control Panel Time Zone ListBox?

Visibility of system status

Consistency and standards

Aesthetics and minimalist design

(a) II and III only

(b) I, II, and III

(c) I and II only

(d) III only

Correct answer is (a)

Your score on this question is: 0.00

Feedback:

See sections 2.2.2 and 2.4.2 of the course notes.

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10.

Which of the following is a reason that adhering to the heuristic recognition rather than recall when designing interfaces is a good idea?

(a) It takes too long for users to recall commands from memory.

(b) Computers are better at remembering things precisely; people are better at recognizing something that is shown to them.

(c) Forcing users to memorize commands is good mental practice.

(d) People have no trouble at all remembering things exactly.

Correct answer is (b)

Your score on this question is: 0.00

Feedback:

See section 2.7.1 of the course notes.

(a) This answer is close but is not the reason recognition works better than recall for users: a user might never remember something that she would recognize immediately.

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11.

Does the presence of a status indicator as a file is downloading support or violate the heuristic help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors?

(a) It violates the heuristic by providing users with more information than they can deal with at one time.

(b) It supports the heuristic by allowing users to choose whether or not to pay attention to the indicator.

(c) It violates the heuristic by providing unhelpful information.

(d) It supports the heuristic by informing users when a problem has occurred with the download.

Correct answer is (d)

Your score on this question is: 0.00

Feedback:

See section 2.7.2 of the course notes.

(b) This statement has more to do with flexibility and efficiency of use than help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors.

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Total score: 36.36

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Your performance was as follows:

You took 5502 minutes on this assessment from Fri Nov 2 23:22:29 UTC+0800 2007 to Tue Nov 6 19:03:32 UTC+0800 2007.

Total score: 70.00

1.

Because Visual Basic buttons can only be manipulated in one way (by clicking), they are suitable to be used for

(a) actions that require additional information not supplied by the click

(b) a greater variety of actions than most other controls

(c) actions that require no additional information beyond that supplied by the click

(d) mouse-initiated actions only

Correct answer is (c)

Your score on this question is: 0.00

Feedback:

See section 2.2.1 of the course notes.

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2.

When you click the mouse on a Visual Basic control named panicButton which of the following is invoked?

(a) panicButton-Click

(b) panicButton_Click()

(c) myPanicButton_Click()

(d) Click_panicButton()

Correct answer is (b)

Your score on this question is: 10.00

Feedback:

See section 2.2.1 of the course notes.

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3.

A Visual Basic button will hold the focus when the interface is first presented to the user, if

Its Default property is set to "true".

Its TabStop property is set to "true" and its TabIndex property is set to "0".

Its TabIndex property is set to "0".

(a) I only

(b) III only

(c) II only

(d) I and III only

Correct answer is (c)

Your score on this question is: 10.00

Feedback:

See section 2.2.1 of the course notes.

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4.

Which heuristic is described in the following statement?

Information that is the same should appear to be the same (same words, icons, and position on the screen). Information that is different should be expressed differently.

(a) Flexibility and efficiency of use

(b) Consistency and standards

(c) Visibility of system status

(d) Help and documentation

Correct answer is (b)

Your score on this question is: 10.00

Feedback:

See section 2.2.2 of the course notes.

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5.

Which of the following is an appropriate time to do an error analysis?

(a) Your client disagrees with your findings.

(b) You think you have made a mistake in your usability aspect report.

(c) One of your colleagues found heuristic violations that you did not.

(d) Two or more heuristics give conflicting advice about a particular interface element.

Correct answer is (d)

Your score on this question is: 10.00

Feedback:

See section 2.2.2 of the course notes.

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6.

Is the consistency and standards heuristic violated by an application with a menu called Actions instead of File?

(a) No, if the other menus are also named differently from accepted conventions.

(b) Yes, the application does not follow accepted conventions.

(c) Consistency and standards is not applicable in this situation.

(d) No, if the Actions menu contains similar menu items to File menus in other applications.

Correct answer is (b)

Your score on this question is: 0.00

Feedback:

See section 2.2.2 of the course notes.

(a) This concept is not what is meant by 'consistency'

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7.

Which of the following is an advantage of keyboard accelerators?

(a) Accelerators allow experts to learn to use the application more quickly.

(b) There is no standard for visual cues for keyboard accelerators.

(c) A user may operate them without his hands leaving the keyboard.

(d) Accelerators are easy for novice users to remember.

Correct answer is (c)

Your score on this question is: 10.00

Feedback:

See section 2.2.4 of the course notes.

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8.

Which of the following is an example of a typical accelerator for frequently used operations?

(a) function or command keys which combine an entire command into a single keypress

(b) typing (or clicking) the next input before the computer is ready to accept it

(c) scrolling by using the keyboard arrow keys instead of the scrollbars

(d) increasing the speed with which the mouse moves

Correct answer is (a)

Your score on this question is: 10.00

Feedback:

See section 2.2.4 of the course notes.

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9.

A reference from one UAR to another is established when

the analyst remembers a similar previous case.

new problems are uncovered by thinking about the trade-offs of solutions.

a sufficient number of UARs has been written for one heuristic.

(a) II only

(b) I, II, and III

(c) I only

(d) I and II only

Correct answer is (d)

Your score on this question is: 0.00

Feedback:

See section 2.2.3 of the course notes.

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10.

When does the presence of an available Cancel button violate the heuristic visibility of system status?

(a) After the user has clicked an Apply button, and there are no changes that the Cancel button can undo.

(b) An available Cancel button never violates this heuristic.

(c) When it is physically set apart from other actions within the interface.

(d) When pressing the Cancel button undoes the previous action.

Correct answer is (a)

Your score on this question is: 10.00

Feedback:

See section 2.2.3 of the course notes.

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Total score: 70.00

Your performance was as follows:

1.

A Visual Basic button will hold the focus when the interface is first presented to the user, if