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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which of the following best describes the effects that new information technology has on society?
It has a dampening effect on the discourse of business ethics.
It is beneficial for society as a whole, while raising dilemmas for consumers.
It has a ripple effect, raising new ethical, social and political issues.
It has a waterfall effect in raising ever more complex ethical issues.
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is NOT one of the current key technology trends that raises ethical issues?
Data storage improvements
Increase in data quality
Data analysis advancements
Increase in use of mobile devices
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is NOT an example of the potential dark side of big data?
Police visits to individuals whom a computer system identified as likely to commit a crime in the future.
Use of a device installed in a car to analyze driving habits.
Use of a predictive modeling system that predicts life expectancy by using data about individual consumers' buying habits as well as personal and family medical histories.
Analyzing data from sensors installed in local parks to monitor soil moisture.
- 4. Multiple Choice
An employee takes small amounts of office supplies for her own personal use. You tell her that if everyone were to take office supplies, then the company might suffer losses. Your rationale expresses which of the following ethical principles?
Kant's Categorical Imperative
The Golden Rule
The Risk Aversion Principle
The "No free lunch" rule
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which of the following acts by Malaysian government which restricts the use of private information by a company without the consent of the owner?
The Privacy Act
The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
The Freedom of Information Act
Personal Data Protection Act
- 6. Multiple Choice
In the ________________________ model of informed consent, personal information can be collected until the consumer specifically requests that his/her data not be collected.
safe harbor
opt-in
opt-out
FIP
- 7. Multiple Choice
________________prohibits an organization from collecting any personal information unless the individual specifically takes action to approve information collection and use.
A safe harbor
The opt-in model
The opt-out model
FIP principles
- 8. Multiple Choice
The FIP principle of Notice/Awareness states that:
websites must disclose their information practices before collecting data.
customers must be allowed to choose how their information will be used for secondary purposes other than supporting transaction.
data collectors must take responsible steps to assure that consumer information is accurate and secure from unauthorized use.
consumers should be able to review the data collected about them
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is a primary drawback to the "do anything anywhere" computing environment?
It makes work environment less pleasant.
It creates a digital divide.
It centralizes power at corporate headquaters.
It blurs the traditional boundaries between work and family time.
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which of the following health risks is the result of constant repetition of keystrokes?
CTS
CVS
RSI
RSS
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which type of infrastructure service provides data, voice and video connectivity to employees, customers and suppliers?
Networking
Telephone
VOIP
Telecommunication
- 12. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is NOT an IT infrastructure service component?
Operating system software.
Computing platforms to provide a coherent digital environment.
Physical facilities management to manage the facilities housing physical components.
IT management services to plan and develop the infrastructure and provide project management.
- 13. Multiple Choice
Specifications that establish the compatibility of products and the ability to communicate in a network are called:
network standards
telecommunications standards
technology standards
Internet standards
- 14. Multiple Choice
A(an) ____________________ is used to communicate between a user and an organization's back-end systems.
public server
private server
legacy server
application server
- 15. Multiple Choice
Place the following eras of IT infrastructure evolution in order, from earliest to most recent: 1. Cloud Computing era; 2. Client/server; 3. Enterprise era; 4. Personal computer and 5. Mainframe and minicomputer.
5, 2, 3, 4, 1
5, 4, 2, 3, 1
4, 5, 2, 3, 1
5, 4, 2, 1, 3
- 16. Multiple Choice
The introduction of the minicomputer:
allowed computers to be customized to the specific needs of departments or business units.
strengthened centralized computing.
offered new, powerful machines at higher prices than mainframes.
represented the rise of Microsoft.
- 17. Multiple Choice
A client computer networked to a server computer, with processing split between the two types of machines, is called a(n):
service-oriented architecture.
on-demand architecture.
multi-tiered client/server architecture.
two-tiered client/server architecture.
- 18. Multiple Choice
Interpretations of Moore's law assert that:
computing power doubles every 18 months.
computing power will eventually level off.
transistors decrease in size 50% every two years.
data storage costs decrease by 50% every 18 months.
- 19. Multiple Choice
Today's nanotechnology-produced computer transistors are roughly equivalent in size to:
a human hair
a virus
an atom
a grain of sand
- 20. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is a multitasking, multi-user, operating system developed by Bell Laboratories that operates on a wide variety of computing platforms?
Unix
Linux
OS X
DOS
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