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September Techbytes -- Bit to Byte about Westlaw

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How does Westlaw get its name?

a)

It was started in a Western Country

b)

John B. West, founder of West Publishing

c)

West End Girls, a popular song of the '90s influenced the naming of many companies at the time

d)

The trial of Fred West demanded the creation of a database to aid lawyers to build a strong case which later influenced its naming

2.

Biggest competitors and threats to Westlaw (Select all that apply)

a)

Start-ups that are sprouts of highly efficient technology companies as they use newer strategies

b)

The pioneer of electronic accessibility of legal and journalistic documents, LexisNexis

c)

People who have binged the American Drama Series, Suits more than once

d)

AntarcticLaw, a legal research software that is managed entirely by pinnipeds

3.

What are the features and characteristics of Westlaw?

a)

Cases are classified using a key-number system for easy information retrieval

b)

40,000 databases consisting of cases, judges, lawyers that is available in over 68 countries worldwide

c)

Novus Search, a distributed, cloud-like search architecture that uses thousands of Linux-based search servers

d)

All of the above

4.

Which of the following is NOT a feature of Westlaw Edge?

a)

WestSearch Plus, an enhanced search engine that offers predictive suggestions and most relevant information

b)

EdgeVoice, a powerful AI judge bot before which you can present your case for practice

c)

Quick Check, a state-of-the-art AI analyses your brief to suggest changes

d)

Litigation Analytics delivers relevant data-driven insights on judges, courts, attorneys, law firms, and case types

5.

Westlaw product is also used internally

a)

True

b)

False

6.

A four quadrant model to describe the Westlaw architecture would include:

(Select all that apply)

a)

Customer facing applications and features

b)

Internal support systems

c)

The Mural quadrant

d)

Content management systems

7.

Which of the following is NOT a key architectural quality of Westlaw?

a)

Modularity

b)

Roman architecture

c)

RESTful

d)

Versioning

8.

Westlaw enhances the content that it provides by doing which of these things (Select all that apply)

a)

Provides well curated and proprietary content with appropriate licenses

b)

Displays its content on walls as graffiti

c)

Content is presented properly by in-house attorney editors

d)

Includes analytical content to compare cases

9.

JCaRE engine would describe which automated enhancement function in the flow of content in Westlaw?

a)

Novus

b)

Jacare (Portuguese for crocodile)

c)

Judicial Auto Classification

d)

Cobalt

10.

The OnPrem platform for the infrastructure architecture uses the LION architecture which would stand for:

a)

Lightweight Integrated Oracle Nest

b)

Linux Integrated Oracle Nest

c)

Linux Intel Oracle NAS

d)

Linux Intel Oracle Novus

11.

In the Oracle infrastructure at IHN, which of the following is a retired Replication and DR Solution:

a)

Oracle SuperPlus

b)

Oracle Data Guard

c)

Oracle Goldengate

d)

Oracle Streams

12.

Which of the following is NOT a type of machine learning ?

a)

Supervised learning

b)

Unsupervised learning

c)

Reinforcement learning

d)

Inforcement learning

13.

Match the era with its respective timeline

The stages of evolution of Legal market and Thomson Reuters Legal

[1] The Platform Era ----------- [a] 1800-1980s

[2] The Print Era ----------------[b] 1990-2010

[3] The Online Era -------[c] 2010+

a)

1-c , 2-b , 3-a

b)

1-c , 2-a , 3-b

c)

1-b , 2-a , 3-b

d)

1-b , 2-c , 3-a

14.

Which of the following is NOT supervised learning ?

a)

Principal component analysis

b)

Decision tree

c)

Linear regression

d)

Naive bayesian

15.

In the regression equation y = mx + b, b is the

a)

Slope of the line

b)

Independent variable

c)

Y intercept

d)

Coefficient of determination