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Basic Google Webmaster Central MCQ

1.

Setting a geographic target through Google Webmaster Tools:

Answer

Correct Answer: will improve your site's appearance in search results specific for the same geographical area.

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2.

While submitting a Sitemap, if you specify your site location as http://www.yoursite.com/, your URL list:

Answer

Correct Answer: should not contain the URLs that begin with http://yoursite.com/.

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3.

To help Google determine how your site appears in Google's country-specific search results, you should ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: define a geographical target

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4.

Google Webmaster Tools does not help you to see ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: your site's popularity stats

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5.

Google Webmaster Tools does not:

Answer

Correct Answer: show the number of unique page views during a given time period.

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6.

Webmaster Tools helps you see your site:

Answer

Correct Answer: the way Google sees it.

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7.

Google determines the "recommended crawl rate" based on ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: the number of pages in your site

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8.

Moving the slider of the Set Custom crawl rate to a faster pace______

Answer

Correct Answer: may increase the Googlebot traffic on your server.

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9.

Specialized Google Sitemap formats do not include:

Answer

Correct Answer: Apps Sitemaps

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10.

Google Webmaster Tools does not______.

Answer

Correct Answer: show funnel visualization

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11.

If you specify your preferred domain as http://www.yoursite.com and Google finds a link to your site that is formatted as http://yoursite.com, it will be followed as ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: http://www.yoursite.com

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12.

What is the maximum number of links that should be displayed on a single page according to Google Webmaster guidelines?

Answer

Correct Answer: Fewer than 100

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13.

The above error message can be customized by:

Answer

Correct Answer: customizing and adding a 404 widget to your custom 404 page.

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14.

Google recommends adding _______ version of your website to Google Webmaster Tools.

Answer

Correct Answer: every

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15.

State whether true or false:

The data displayed in Google Webmaster Tools may be different from the data shown by other tools such as Google Analytics.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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16.

A custom crawl rate set for Google Webmaster Tools is valid for ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: 90 days

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17.

The first page you see on logging into Google Webmaster tools is______.

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Correct Answer: Dashboard

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18.

You can report about a website to Google which indulges in buying or selling "paid links" through Webmaster Tools.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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19.

The above graphic shows:

Answer

Correct Answer: the issues encountered by Google while crawling your site

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20.

Choose the incorrect statement.

Answer

Correct Answer: It is not possible to remove the pages of your website from Google's search results.

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21.

If you set the Geographic target of your website as Canada,

Answer

Correct Answer: Google will consider your website better optimized to search results when users choose show pages from Canada while using Google search.

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22.

Enabling your web server to support the "If-Modified-Since" HTTP header:

Answer

Correct Answer: allows your web server to tell Google whether your content has changed since it last crawled your site.

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23.

A Sitemap file can contain no more than ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: 50,000 URLs.

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24.

In case you feel the expected keywords are missing from the Google webmasters keywords page, you should:

Answer

Correct Answer: review the Crawl Errors page for your site and take corrective action, if required.

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25.

If you submit a News sitemap for your website, Google News will

Answer

Correct Answer: use normal crawl methods to search and index your news site.

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26.

Registering the misspellings of a well known website as a domain for your website ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: is considered a misleading practice

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27.

Files in the URLs that are protected by authentication:

Answer

Correct Answer: can not be retrieved by Google.

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28.

Which of the following stats about Googlebot crawl activity are not shown in Google webmaster tools?

Answer

Correct Answer: Custom reports

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29.

The crawl errors shown in Google webmaster tools do not include:

Answer

Correct Answer: images without alt text

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30.

If the Webmaster Tools data shows missing Titles in the pages of your website, ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: the missing titles must be replaced as soon as possible.

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31.

Webmaster Tools does not show:

Answer

Correct Answer: which webpages of your site are generating the least revenue.

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32.

Specialized Google Sitemap formats:

Answer

Correct Answer: are specific to Google and are not used by other search engines.

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33.

Removing www.yourwebsite.com using the URL removal tool will also remove http://yourwebsite.com from Google's index.

Answer

Correct Answer: Yes

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34.

If you want your users to visit http://www.yourwebsite.com instead of http://yourwebsite.com, you should ______

Answer

Correct Answer: use Webmaster Tools to set your preferred domain.

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35.

The following question is based on the above diagram.

Clicking on the test python online link will ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: show the position in search results for the query test python online.

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36.

Increasing the Googlebot crawl rate for your website ______

Answer

Correct Answer: will increase the number of Googlebot requests per second.

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37.

Which of the following should be used to permanently remove the cached version of your page from Google search results?

Answer

Correct Answer: meta noarchive tag.

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38.

If you verify your site for Google Webmaster Tools at http://www.yoursite.com/blogs/, you can not see errors with URLs for ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: http://www.yoursite.com
http://www.yoursite.com/tests/

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39. Full users can do the following:

Answer

Correct Answer: None of these

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40. What permissions can the owner give to other users on Google Webmaster?

Answer

Correct Answer: Restricted, Full, and Site Owner

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41. If Googlebot is not accessing your website, what kind of error is occurring?

Answer

Correct Answer: A site error.

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42. Why would you want to indicate the expiration date of a schema.org markup?

Answer

Correct Answer: To make it less problematic for the search engine.

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43. If you wanted your website to be discovered faster by Googlebot, what is a good method?

Answer

Correct Answer: Consolidate its files in specialized directories.

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44. Can a Google Video Sitemap be replaced with a mRSS feed?

Answer

Correct Answer: Yes.

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45. To look for problems in your website, what operator can be used?

Answer

Correct Answer: site: search

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46. An increase in redirect traffic has been detected. Where should you look to solve the issue?

Answer

Correct Answer: The log files.

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47. What trait would your indexing status reveal if your website has been hacked?

Answer

Correct Answer: Large volumes of duplicate pages.

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48. Which of the following is NOT correct?

Answer

Correct Answer: You do not need to verify subdomains to your site

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49. Can Google accommodate right-to-left languages such as Arabic?

Answer

Correct Answer: Yes, but with some bidirectional content.

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50. How do you find out how much of your website is being accessed by Google?

Answer

Correct Answer: Compare the volume of page crawls to the total pages blocked by robots.txt.

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51. When removing cached data from your website, are files such as .doc and .PDFs removed as well?

Answer

Correct Answer: No. Only HTML pages.

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52. If you are experiencing substandard search results, what tool can be used to troubleshoot the issue?

Answer

Correct Answer: The fetch as Google tool.

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53. Why are Links to Your Site important?

Answer

Correct Answer: It can possibly increase or decrease your google search rank or PageRank

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54. If content is password-protected from crawling, what happens to it?

Answer

Correct Answer: It is dropped out of the index and will disappear after 90 days.

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55. What is an example of why you would use the Remove URL Page?

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Correct Answer: You need to urgently remove a page on your site from google's search results because it contains confidential information

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56. Which spoken languages require HTML code to be altered to accommodate them?

Answer

Correct Answer: None of these.

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57. What tool do you use to remove an entire page?

Answer

Correct Answer: The Google public URL removal tool.

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58. What does the Search Queries tool show you?

Answer

Correct Answer: Queries on google that have returned URLs from your site

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59. Does webmaster tools provide any security related tools?

Answer

Correct Answer: Yes

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60. What can be added to your website to allow it to be shared with others?

Answer

Correct Answer: The +1 button.

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61. What do Crawl Stats show you?

Answer

Correct Answer: Googlebot activity in the last 90 days

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62. Full users can do the following to a domain except:

Answer

Correct Answer: Add / Remove User Access

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63. Why would you add HTML markup to your site's pages?

Answer

Correct Answer: To help google understand the content of Structured Data on your site

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64. If Googlebot is able to crawl your website yet is experiencing errors, what is happening?

Answer

Correct Answer: There are errors in the URL.

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65. The Crawl Stats Page shows you

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Correct Answer: pages crawled per day, kilobytes downloaded per day, and time spent downloading a page

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66. Why would you use the Change of Address page in Google Webmaster?

Answer

Correct Answer: You want to tell google you have moved your site to a new domain

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67. When would it be ideal to omit the robots.txt file from your website?

Answer

Correct Answer: When you want your entire website indexed.

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68. What does the Fetch as Google page do?

Answer

Correct Answer: It requests google to crawl a specific page on your website

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69. Which of the following ways is NOT a valid way to verify ownership of a domain?

Answer

Correct Answer: Click the confirmation link Google sends to the admin email listed on WHOIS/ICANN

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70. What tool would you use to calculate the level of non-English web traffic?

Answer

Correct Answer: The analytics dashboard.

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71. After adding your website to Webmaster Tools, what is one way for it to be verified?

Answer

Correct Answer: Include meta tags in the sites encoding.

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72. What kind of file can be used to give Googlebot added information about images?

Answer

Correct Answer: Image sitemap files.

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73. What is the Content Keywords page?

Answer

Correct Answer: This page lists the most significant or widely used keywords google found when crawling your site.

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74. How will google react to a site that does not have a robots.txt file?

Answer

Correct Answer: It will search the entire website

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75. What configurable text appears when your content is shared on Google+?

Answer

Correct Answer: A +snippet.

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76. Which of the following can trigger a Site Health alert

Answer

Correct Answer: Google detects malware on your site

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77. When a page is removed, how do you delete it from search results?

Answer

Correct Answer: It doesn't need to be deleted because it is automatically dropped from search results.

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78. As you add more pages to your website, what should also show a direct correlation?

Answer

Correct Answer: The total URLs ever crawled.

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79. What tool allows you to view a page like Google crawlers do?

Answer

Correct Answer: Fetch As Google

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80. What is not a valid CTR Rate?

Answer

Correct Answer: 150%

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81. In the case of the Search Queries tool, what are impressions?

Answer

Correct Answer: The number of times your URL appeared in a search result

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82. What can be submitted to Google to provide extra information about your images and videos?

Answer

Correct Answer: A sitemap.

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83. What three properties are used to create a +snippet?

Answer

Correct Answer: Image, name, and description.

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84. If you want your website to be crawled, what must be allowed for this to happen?

Answer

Correct Answer: User-agents.

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85. What symbol indicates a potential problem with your site's health?

Answer

Correct Answer: !

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86. What tag is used to enlarge important text?

Answer

Correct Answer: Heading tags.

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87. Links to Your Site determines

Answer

Correct Answer: The number of links google found to your site on other websites

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88. What indexing result is expected from a properly configured website?

Answer

Correct Answer: An increase in crawled pages.

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89. What useful information does the Crawl Error page provide?

Answer

Correct Answer: Details about URLs in your site that Google could not successfully crawl or returned a HTTP error code

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90. What kind of search does Google use?

Answer

Correct Answer: Algorithmic search

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91. Restricted users can do the following:

Answer

Correct Answer: View Site Settings, View Site Links, Fetch as Google, View SiteMaps

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92. Which of the following is not possible in Google Webmaster?

Answer

Correct Answer: Seeing how many active users are on your site in real time

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93. How does Google determine CTR?

Answer

Correct Answer: CTR = Clicks / Impressions

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94. What are internal links?

Answer

Correct Answer: The internal links are links on your site that have incoming links from other internal pages on your site

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95. What is a site map?

Answer

Correct Answer: It is a list of the pages on your website

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96. What type of error is the most prolific crawling error?

Answer

Correct Answer: 404 errors.

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97. What is your Google Index Status?

Answer

Correct Answer: The index status provides stats about how many of your URLs google was able to crawl and/or index.

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98. How can you add users to access Google Webmaster for a single domain?

Answer

Correct Answer: Manage Site | Add or Remove Users | Add New User

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99. What tag would cause a URL to be dismissed by the web crawler when accounting for the total indexed?

Answer

Correct Answer: The meta noindex tag.

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100. Why are internal links important

Answer

Correct Answer: The number of internal links pointing to a page is a signal to search engines about the relative importance of that page.

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101. What are two common errors that occur with a web crawler?

Answer

Correct Answer: Site and URL errors.

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102. What does Index Status tell you about your website?

Answer

Correct Answer: It tells you the number of URLs indexed.

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103. What is the most secure password to use for your email?

Answer

Correct Answer: A combination of all of these

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104. What does it mean when a site is not verified?

Answer

Correct Answer: You have not proven that you are the owner of this site to Google

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105. Where is the robots.txt file stored on your website?

Answer

Correct Answer: The root directory.

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106. What does the Remove URL page do?

Answer

Correct Answer: Requests that google removes a page on your site from its search results

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107. Why would you want to dissavow links to your website?

Answer

Correct Answer: You can remove spammy or low quality links from a website that may negatively affect your PageRank

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108. If you were to optimize image-related information, how would it be done?

Answer

Correct Answer: Use the alt attribute to substitute text for the image if it cannot be displayed.

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109. What can you edit through Webmaster Tools Preferences page?

Answer

Correct Answer: All of these

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110. What specifies how search engines should crawl your website?

Answer

Correct Answer: robots.txt

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111. After completing your mobile website, how would you inform Google that it is now in operation?

Answer

Correct Answer: Use Google Webmaster Tools to submit a mobile site map.

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112. What part of your websites encoding is displayed in the first line of search results?

Answer

Correct Answer: The title tag.

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113. Why would you create and submit a site map to Google?

Answer

Correct Answer: All of these

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114. What kind of results never result in charges to the advertising agency?

Answer

Correct Answer: Organic results

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115. What does Google Video Sitemaps allow you to do?

Answer

Correct Answer: Publish video content and its metadata.

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