No need to apologize, we were all noobs at one time, it was just called something different. Keep this up and you will have to trade in your noob badge:-) You have the idea, generally anything above 10 uF would qualify (subjective answer) as a bulk capacitor. You scored again, the ceramic is about the best you can use. I generally use around 100nF but it is to some extent circuit dependent. You can always try. You got three for three, as close as possible to the input and output terminals. I generally also place them at the input of my board if the leads are much more then 6".