Google Adwords Fundamentals Exam - December, 2017

An advertiser is focused primarily on direct response, as opposed to branding. The advertiser should delete keywords from a search campaign if the keywords:
A) generate many clicks and conversions
B) generate many impressions and very few conversions
C) contain more than two words in the phrase
D) contain words that are duplicated in a display campaign

What is a benefit of online advertising with Google AdWords?
A) Advertisers can identify the Internet Protocol (IP) address of users who are searching for products
B) Ads can include up to 50 characters for the first three lines of ad text
C) Ads are displayed to users who are searching for a particular product of service
D) Advertisers can pay to place their websites in the natural search results


It is beneficial to create multiple ad groups in order to:
A) opt specific ad groups into various Google networks
B) break up keywords and ads into related themes
C) set different budgets for each ad group
D) pause specific keywords if they are not performing well

What's one benefit of creating multiple ad groups?
A) You can target specific ad groups into various Google networks
B) You can break up keywords and ads into related themes
C) You can set different budgets for each ad group
D) You can pause specific keywords if they are not performing well

Which AdWords settings are specified at the account level?
A) A daily budget and a set of keywords and placements
B) Network distribution preferences and a set of keywords
C) A unique email address, a password, and billing information
D) Location targeting, cost-per-click (CPC) bids, and match types

An online retail company is based in the United States but ships to customers all over the world. If this company wants to serve Spanish language ads to Spanish speaking users, which targeting option should be refined?
A) Language targeting
B) Regional targeting
C) Ad scheduling
D) Demographic targeting

Which method would be recommended for an advertiser who is trying to increase the Quality Score of a low-performing keyword?
A) Repeat the keyword as many times as possible in the ad text.
B) Delete the keyword and add the keyword to the campaign again
C) Modify the ad associated with that keyword to direct to a highly-relevant landing page
D) Increase the daily budget for the campaign in which the keyword is located

An advertiser wants to increase the Quality Score of a low-perofrming keyword. Which approach would you recommend?
A) Repeat the keyword as many times as possible in the ad text.
B) Delete the keyword and add the keyword to the campaign again
C) Modify the ad associated with that keyword to direct to a highly-relevant landing page
D) Increase the daily budget for the campaign in which the keyword is located

An advertiser who decides to edit the location targeting of an ad can do this at the:
A) ad group level
B) keyword level
C) campaign level
D) account level

If your campaign is opted into show ads on the Google Display Network, and your Display Network ads have a lower CTR than your existing search ads - how will this impact the quality score of your search campaign?
A) None of these options is correct
B) Your ad performance on the Display Network does not affect your rank for search ads, so a lower CTR on the Display Network does not affect the Quality score of your ads for search
C) Your daily budget will be adjusted to account for a drop in CTR and in increase in the CPCs needed to maintain the existing Ad Rank of your search campaigns
D) Your quality score will be adjusted to reflect the average CTR of both your search and display network campaign performance.

An advertiser wants to achieve the top position in paid search results. Which recommendations would improve the likelihood of top ad position?

A) Improve Quality Score and increase cost-per-click (CPC)
B) Decrease cost-per-click (CPC) and increase daily budget
C) Decrease cost-per-click (CPC) and decrease daily budget
D) Improve Quality Score and decrease cost-per-click (CPC)

To determine which ad language to target to a user, the AdWords system refers to that users:
A) Chrome Browser setting
B) operating system language
C) home country's language
D) Google interface language setting

Which budget delivery option is most appropriate for an advertiser who wants AdWords to distribute ads evenly throughout the day?
A) Accelerated
B) Optimized
C) Scheduled
D) Standard

An advertiser wants to allocate additional budget to advertising a new product line. In order to accomplish this goal, the advertiser should create:
A) an ad group specific to the product line with a higher daily budget
B) additional text ads that specifically feature the product line
C) a campaign with a separate daily budget specific to the product line
D) an ad group specific to the product line with targeted ad text

Suppose you have created an ad group to advertise gourmet chocolate, and it includes keywords like "dark chocolate" and "gourmet chocolate bars." If you opted this particular campaign into the Google Display Network, what type of targeting would automatically be used to determine whether your ads might show?
A) Remarketing would be used to automatically target users who had previously visited sites that related to your keywords.
B) Topic targeting would be used to target all pages of chocolate, regardless of whether your exact keywords appear on the page.
C) Managed placements would be used to target specific sites you had selected as being important to your client.
D) Automatic placements would be used to contextually target sites that share the same themes as the keywords within your campaign.

Which line of ad text would be disapproved based on Google's advertising policies?
A) Want fast results?
B) Free shipping
C) Best deals- click here
D) Fast, easy, effective

How do managed placements on the Display Network work?
A) Advertisers can guarantee placement on prominent and popular sites.
B) Advertisers manually select the desired sites on which their ads may appear
C) Keywords are used to place ads next to content that matches the ad.
D) Appropriate sites are automatically chosen for the advertiser by the Google AdWords system.

According to ad policies, what types of words, phrases, or characters can not be included in an AdWords text ad?
A) All of these answers are correct
B) Ads cannot contain words that are not directly related to the keyword that the ad is targeting
C) Ads cannot use exclamation points (!) or question marks (?).
D) Ads cannot use call-to-action phrases such as "click here" or "See this site"

Your text ad includes the phrase "Your friend has a crush on you, See more!". Why could your ad be disapproved according to AdWords policies?
A) Ads can not simulate email inbox notifications or fake "friends/crush" requests.
B) Ads can not contain that amount of characters
C) Ads can not contain the phrase "See more!"
D) Ads can not contain exclamation points (!).

Which formula does Google use to rank keyword-targeted ads on Google Search
A) (Maximum cost-per-click (CPC) bid + Daily Budget) / Quality Score
B) Maximum cost-per-click (CPC) bid x Quality Score
C) (Maximum cost-per-click (CPC) bid x Quality Score) / Daily Budget
D) Maximum cost-per-click (CPC) bid only

When resetting a password in AdWords, what should a user keep in mind?
A) The new password is now required to access all other Google products with the affected Google Account log-in.
B) The new password will work for AdWords and the old password will work for other Google products.
C) The user will need to enable 2-factor authentication in order to access their account from any location
D) The password will need to be reset separately on other Google products that share the Google Account log-in

A keyword with very low clickthrough rate (CTR) will usually receive:
A) more impressions on the Google Display Network
B) impressions only on the Google Search Network
C) a low average cost-per-click (CPC) on Google search.
D) a low-Quality Score on the Google Search Network

Adding placements to an ad group
A) negatively affects the Quality Score for search
B) does not affect the Quality Score for search
C) improves the Quality Score on Google
D) improves the Quality Score for search

In the case of a placement-targeted ad on the Google Display Network, the Quality Score portion of calculating Ad Rank is based on:
A) the quality of your image
B) the quality of your landing page
C) the maximum CPC of the keyword that triggered an ad.
D) your daily budget

By adding managed placements to a Display Network campaign - you can show your ad:
A) on webpages where the Smart Pricing feature determines there the ad is likely delivery ROI.
B) on specific webpages, online video games, RSS feeds, and mobile sites and apps that you select
C) on webpages where a contextual targeting algorithm identified that is a match between your keywords and a publishers content
D) on Google owned and operated properties such as Gmail and Google News - that have relevant content for your keywords.

A My Client Center (MCC) account manager wants to grant Standard Access to a linked client. Before making this change, the account manager should consider that Standard Access users can:
A) change the access levels of other users.
B) delete the account
C) invite others to access the account.
D) see average cost-per-click (CPC) costs.

What happens when an advertiser sets a daily budget lower than the recommended amount, using the "Standard" delivery method?
A) Ads will show when a user searches on the advertisers' keywords, but the ads rank will be reduced.
B) Ads will show each time a user searches on the advertisers' keywords, but only during specified time periods
C) Ads will not show every time a user searches on the advertisers' keywords
D) Ads will never show when a user searches on the advertisers' keywords

The maximum cost-per-click (CPC) bid is the:
A) amount an advertiser is required to pay to achieve top ad position
B) actual amount an advertiser pays for each click on an ad
C) most an advertiser is willing to pay for each click on an ad
D) amount an advertiser must pay to outbid competitors

If an advertiser improves the Quality Score of a keyword, this keyword may:
A) receive fewer impressions on the Search Network
B) automatically reset its match type to Broad
C) earn the ad a higher average position
D) be more likely to appear in bold when displayed in an ad

You can use Display Planner to:
A) see which images and text ads within your campaign are performing best on the specific websites you are targeting
B) run a report to determine which keywords are most likely to convert based on the past 30-days of your campaign
C) see potential webpages where your ad can appear based on your keywords
D) managed CPC bids for contextual campaigns within your account

When sitelinks are set at both the campaign and ad group level, which will be displayed?
A) Sitelinks at the ad group level
B) Sitelinks with the highest ad rank
C) Sitelinks related to the query searched
D) Sitelinks from both the campaign and ad group

Which formula represents how Ad Rank is determined on Google search?
A) Popularity of the website being advertised
B) Historic average position of each ad
C) Maximum cost-per-click (CPC) multiplied by Quality Score
D) How much an advertiser is willing to spend each day

An advertiser looking to drive conversions is using manual cost-per-click (CPC) bidding. Which factor should be most important for this advertiser when keyword bids are decided?
A) The profit derived from a paid click
B) The bids of the next closest competitor
C) The cost of the bid
D) The Quality Score of the keyword

What should an advertiser use to organize ad groups?
A) Common themes
B) Number of words per keyword
C) Maximum cost-per-click (CPC)
D) Location targeting

Advertisers on Google search accrue cost in AdWords when:
A) users click on their ads
B) their ads appear on the Google search page
C) the user completes a purchase
D) they register a conversion using Conversion Tracking

A primary benefit of location targeting is that advertisers can:
A) choose to target a specific Google domain
B) target any combination of countries, territories, and regions
C) target specific users who have already visited their site
D) choose to only target websites based in a specific region or territory

You are managing a campaign where budget is unlimited as long as ROI is positive, but something still limits how much you are able to effectively invest. What is it? Choose the most closely related answer
A) Whether your payment method is credit or debit
B) The number of tracking codes installed on your website
C) The number of websites on the internet
D) The volume of traffic available for the keywords you are targeting

What is the impact of poor landing page quality on an ad group?
A) The keywords in the ad group will be paused
B) The ads in the ad group will be disapproved due to low Quality Score
C) The keywords in the ad group will have a lower Quality Score.
D) The entire campaign will be paused

With the Smart Pricing feature in Display, if our data shows that a click from a Google Display Network page is less likely to turn into an actionable business result - such as an online sale, registration, phone call, or newsletter sign-up - we may:
A) Automatically adjust your daily budget to serve less ads on Google Display Network pages.
B) Use data from the Display Network auction to revise the cost of your Search ads
C) Automatically reduce your cost-per-click bids on the Google Display Network
D) Send notification that your bids should be adjusted

Quality Score and Ad Rank are calculated:
A) Every time your ad is eligible to serve on a Display Network page
B) Every time someone does a search that triggers your ad
C) A few times a day, based on your ad scheduling settings
D) Every time you change your CPCs within your account

On the Display Network, all keywords are considered broad match only. This means that you do not need to:
A) Include location targeting to narrow the reach of your ads
B) Include plurals, misspellings, and other variants of your keywords
C) Include negative keywords to refine your placement
D) manage your keyword performance at the ad group level