When the Business Software Alliance (BSA) finds cases of software piracy, it can
assess heavy monetary penalties.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has a few dozen lawyers and investigators who
prosecute only the 100 or so most egregious cases of software piracy each year.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
There is a potential conflict of interest when IT consultants or auditors recommend their
own products and services or those of an affiliated vendor to remedy a problem they
have detected.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is a legally binding global treaty to fight bribery and
corruption.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The United Nations Convention Against Corruption makes it a crime to bribe a foreign
official, a foreign political party official, or a candidate for foreign political office.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
A bribe is a crime even if the payment was lawful under the laws of the foreign country
in which it was paid.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
Which of the following statements is true about licensing of IT workers?
a. Licensing assures and ensures the competency of individual workers.
b. The United States holds a large number of international or national licensing
programs for IT workers.
c. There is no single administrative body to accredit professional education programs
for IT.
d. At present, there are several universally accepted standards for licensing IT workers.
Answer:
The posting of thousands of State Department documents on the Wikileaks Web site is
an example of __________.
a. inappropriate sharing of information
b. breach of duty of care
c. inappropriate use of computing resources
d. negligence
Answer:
In the legal system, compliance usually refers to behavior that is in accordance with
__________.
a. personal beliefs
b. morality
c. legislation
d. ethical codes
Answer:
In 1972, the __________recommended that publicly held organizations establish audit
committees.
a. SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security (SANS) Institute
b. Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP)
c. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
d. National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES)
Answer:
The goal of the standards set by the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is to prevent
companies from:
a. creating relationships between IT workers and suppliers.
b. making facilitating payments for obtaining permits or licenses.
c. using slush funds or other means to disguise payments to officials.
d. providing misrepresentations of a material fact.
Answer:
A survey by the Fawcett Society on the use of computing resources at work found that
__________.
a. 20 percent of men admit to viewing porn while at work
b. over 50 percent of mobile workers view porn from their Web- enabled phones
c. 31 percent of computer users engage in software piracy
d. nearly 75 percent of office workers spend 2 hours or more a week on Facebook while
at work
Answer:
The Fifth Amendment regulates the collection of the content of wire and electronic
communications.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
Smart and talented hackers who are technically inept are referred to as lamers or script
kiddies by more skilled hackers.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
Computer viruses differ from worms in that viruses can propagate without human
intervention, often sending copies of themselves to other computers by email.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The cost to repair the worldwide damage done by a computer worm has exceeded $1
billion on more than one occasion.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The security of any system or network is a combination of technology, policy, and
people and requires a wide range of activities to be effective.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
According to the 2010/11 CSI Computer Crime and Security Survey, malware infection
incidents were the most common security incident.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
__________is the abuse of email systems to send unsolicited email to large numbers of
people.
a. A botnet
b. Spam
c. Logic bombing
d. A worm
Answer:
The fundamental problem with trying to detect a rootkit is that the operating system
cannot be trusted to provide __________.
a. valid test results
b. correct system login ids
c. the correct date and time
d. sufficient memory for operations
Answer:
The__________ protects against unreasonable search and seizure.
a. Fourth Amendment
b. Fifth Amendment
c. Wiretap Act
d. Pen Registers and Trap and Trace Devices Statute
Answer:
Spammers can defeat the registration process of free email services by launching a
coordinated__________ attack that can sign up for thousands of untraceable email
accounts.
a. distributed denial-of-service
b. bot
c. CAPTCHA
d. logic bomb
Answer:
The Constitution does not contain the word privacy, but the Supreme Court has ruled
that the concept of privacy is protected by the Bill of Rights.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
A vehicle event data recorder (EDR) is a device that records vehicle and occupant data
for a few seconds before, during, and after any vehicle crash that is severe enough to
deploy the vehicle’s air bags.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
Online marketers can capture personal information, such as names, addresses, and
Social Security numbers without requiring consent.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The U.S. has a single, overarching national data privacy policy.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
American citizens are protected by the Fourth Amendment even when there is no
reasonable expectation of privacy.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
Information privacy is the combination of communications privacy and data privacy.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act requires healthcare
organizations to employ standardized electronic transactions, codes, and identifiers to
enable them to fully digitize medical records thus making it possible to exchange
medical records over the Internet.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
Electronically stored information includes any form of digital information stored on any
form of electronic storage device.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The rights assigned to parents by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
transfer to the student once the student reaches the age of 2
a. True
b. False
Answer:
A pen register is a device that records the originating number of incoming calls for a
particular phone number.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
A pen register is a device that records the originating number of incoming calls for a
particular phone number.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The cost of a data breach can be quite expensive, by some estimates nearly $200 for
each record lost.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The use of cookies and tracking software is controversial because companies can
collect information about consumers without their explicit permission.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
A National Security Letter is subject to judicial review and oversight.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The use of information technology in business requires balancing the needs of those
who use the information that is collected against the rights and desires of the people
whose information is being used.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
Under the USA PATRIOT Act, the FBI can issue a National Security Letter to compel
banks, Internet service providers, and credit reporting companies to turn over
information about their customers without a court order simply of the basis that the
information is needed for an ongoing investigation.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act describes procedures for the electronic
surveillance of communications between foreign powers and the agents of foreign
powers.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
Under the Right to Financial Privacy Act, a financial institution can release a customer’s
financial records without the customer’s authorization as long as it is a government
authority that is seeking the records.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The USA PATRIOT Act grants citizens the right to access certain information and
records of federal, state, and local governments upon request.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
Electronic discovery is the collection, preparation, review, and production of
electronically stored information for use in criminal and civil actions and proceedings.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The European Union Data Protection Directive requires member countries to ensure
that data transferred to non- European Union countries is protected.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
Through the use of cookies, a Web site is able to identify visitors on subsequent visits.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The Privacy Act of 1974 extends to the actions of the CIA, U.S. law enforcement
agencies, and the private industry.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
There is virtually no way to limit the deposit of cookies on a user’s hard drive.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act includes three key rules that affect personal privacy:
financial privacy rule, safeguards rule, and pretexting rule.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The pretexting rule addresses attempts by people to access personal information without
proper authority by such means as impersonating an account holder or phishing.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
Public sector employees have far greater privacy rights than those in private industry
because the Fourth Amendment does not limit how a private employer treats its
employees.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
Exemptions to the Freedom of Information Act bar disclosure of information that could
compromise national security or interfere with an active law enforcement investigation.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
Advocates of advanced surveillance technology argue that people have no legitimate
expectation of privacy in a public place, and thus Fourth Amendment privacy rights do
not apply.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The Glass-Steagall Act allows consumers to obtain a free credit report once each year
from each of the three primary consumer credit reporting companies.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act:
a. extends the protections offered under the Wiretap Act to electronic communications,
such as email, fax, and messages sent over the Internet.
b. was passed by Congress in 1994 and amended both the Wiretap Act and the
Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
c. requires any company doing business within the borders of the countries comprising
the European Union to implement a set of privacy directives on the fair and appropriate
use of information.
d. allows surveillance, without court order, within the United States for up to a year
unless the ‘surveillance will acquire the contents of any communication to which a U.S.
person is a party.”
Answer:
In the context of the Fourth Amendment, the courts have ruled that __________.
a. recordings by the FBI of various telephone calls made by a U.S. citizen from a public
phone booth do not violate an individual’s privacy
b. Federal agents can listen to phone conversations of U.S. citizens without a warrant
c. without a reasonable expectation of privacy, there is no privacy right
d. the Fourth Amendment is no longer valid
Answer:
Under the __________, financial institutions must provide a privacy notice to each
consumer that explains what data about the consumer is gathered, with whom that data
is shared, how the data is used, and how the data is protected.
a. Fair Credit Reporting Act
b. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
c. Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
d. USA PATRIOT Act
Answer:
The concept of privacy is __________.
a. defined in the U.S. constitution
b. protected even when there is no reasonable expectation of privacy
c. violated by the Fourth Amendment
d. protected by the Bill of Rights
Answer:
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act requires healthcare providers
to obtain __________ from patients prior to disclosing any information in their medical
records.
a. payment for all services rendered
b. a social security number
c. a second opinion
d. written consent
Answer:
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act __________.
a. was found to be unconstitutional
b. is meant to give Web masters control over the collection, use, and disclosure of
children’s personal information
c. does not cover the dissemination of information to children
d. requires the installation of Internet filters in public libraries
Answer:
Title I of the __________ extends the protections offered under the Wiretap Act to
electronic communications, such as fax and messages sent over the Internet.
a. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
b. Electronic Communications Privacy Act
c. Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
d. USA PATRIOT Act
Answer:
The __________ prohibits unauthorized access to stored wire and electronic
communications, such as the contents of email inboxes, instant messages, message
boards, and social networking sites.
a. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
b. Electronic Communications Privacy Act
c. USA PATRIOT Act
d. Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
Answer:
The __________ prohibits the government from concealing the existence of any
personal data record-keeping systems.
a. Fair Information Practices Act
b. USA PATRIOT Act
c. Privacy Act
d. Freedom of Information Act
Answer:
Under the __________, the Federal Communications Commission responded to appeals
from the Department of Justice by requiring providers of Internet phone services and
broadband services to ensure that their equipment accommodated the use of law
enforcement wiretaps.
a. USA PATRIOT Act
b. Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
c. Electronic Communications Privacy Act
d. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Answer:
The __________ gave sweeping new powers both to domestic law enforcement and
international intelligence agencies, including increasing the ability of law enforcement
agencies to search telephone, email, medical, financial, and other records.
a. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
b. Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
c. USA PATRIOT Act
d. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Answer:
The __________ outlines who may access a user’s credit information, how users can
find out what is in their file, how to dispute inaccurate data, and how long data is
retained.
a. Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
b. Fair Credit Reporting Act
c. Credit CARD Act
d. Federal Credit Union Act
Answer:
In 2008, the __________ granted expanded authority to collect, without court-approved
warrants, international communications as they flow through U.S. telecom network
equipment and facilities.
a. USA PATRIOT Act
b. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendments Act
c. Electronic Communications Privacy Act
d. Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
Answer:
In Doe v. Holder, the courts ruled that the NSL gag provision violates the __________.
a. Fair Information Practices Act
b. USA PATRIOT Act
c. First Amendment
d. sunset provision
Answer:
A(n) __________ is a device that records the originating number of incoming calls for a
particular phone number.
a. trap and trace
b. pen register
c. intercom
d. phone switchboard
Answer:
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s __________,
established in 1980, are often held up as the model of ethical treatment of consumer
data.
a. European Union Data Protection Directives
b. fair information practices
c. transborder data flow principles
d. BBB online data protection guidelines
Answer:
The __________ bars the export of data to countries that do not have data privacy
protection standards comparable to those of its member countries.
a. Fair Information Protection Act
b. Fair Credit Reporting Act
c. Freedom of Information Act
d. European Union Data Protection Directive
Answer:
In the context of tenets of the The European Union Data Protection Directive,
__________ refers to an individual’s right to challenge the accuracy of the data and
provide the corrected data.
a. enforcement
b. security
c. correction
d. use
Answer:
In the context of tenets of The European Union Data Protection Directive, __________
refers to an individual’s right to seek legal relief through appropriate channels to protect
privacy rights.
a. enforcement
b. notice
c. choice
d. security
Answer:
The __________ is an act that repealed a depression-era law known as Glass-Steagall.
a. Fair Credit Reporting Act
b. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
c. Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
d. Electronic Communications Privacy Act
Answer:
The __________ enables the public to gain access to certain government records.
a. Fair Information Practices Act
b. USA PATRIOT Act
c. Privacy Act
d. Freedom of Information Act
Answer:
The __________ included strong privacy provisions for electronic health records and
bans the sale of health information, promotes the use of audit trails and encryption, and
provides rights of access for patients.
a. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
b. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
c. Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
d. Electronic Communications Privacy Act
Answer:
One purpose of a(n) __________ is to capture and record data that can be used by the
manufacturer to make future changes to improve vehicle performance in the case of a
crash.
a. cookie
b. event data recorder
c. spear-phishing device
d. answering machine
Answer:
Discovery is part of the pretrial phase of a lawsuit in which each party can obtain
__________from the other party by various means.
a. trade secrets
b. competitive intelligence
c. evidence
d. patent royalties
Answer:
The __________ restricted the government’s ability to secretly intercept
communications.
a. Freedom of Information Act
b. Communications Act of 1934
c. NSL gag provision
d. USA PATRIOT Act of 2001
Answer:
The __________ protects citizens from unreasonable government searches and is often
invoked to protect the privacy of government employees.
a. USA PATRIOT Act
b. Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
c. Fourth Amendment
d. Freedom of Information Act
Answer:
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s requirement that
personal data collected should be accurate, complete, current, and relevant to the
purpose for which it is used is based on the principle of __________.
a. individual participation
b. data quality
c. collection limitation
d. purpose specification
Answer:
The __________ presumes that a student’s records are private and not available to the
public without the consent of the student.
a. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
b. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
c. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
d. Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
Answer:
__________ includes photographs, sound recordings, and databases stored on hard
drives, CDs, and flash drives.
Answer:
A(n) __________ can be loaded onto someone’s cell phone or smartphone within
minutes, making it possible for the user to perform location tracking, record calls, view
every text message or picture sent or received, and record the URLs of any Web site
visited on the phone.
Answer:
The Communications Act of 1934 established the __________.
Answer:
In the context of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD) privacy guidelines, __________ refers to the fact that personal data should be
accurate, complete, current, and relevant to the purpose for which it is used.
Answer:
Under Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Street Act, a warrant must be
obtained from a judge to conduct a(n) __________.
Answer:
The__________ meets in secret to hear applications for and grant or deny orders
approving electronic surveillance anywhere within the United States.
Answer:
Title II of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 prohibits unauthorized
access to stored __________.
Answer:
A private organization can defeat a privacy claim simply by proving that an employee
had been given __________that email, Internet use, and files on company computers
were not private and that their use might be monitored.
Answer:
__________ is a term for a set of guidelines that govern the collection and use of
personal data.
Answer:
The__________ of 2001 was passed just after the terrorist attacks of September 11,
2001.
Answer:
The__________ required the telecommunications industry to build tools into its
products that federal investigators could use to eavesdrop on conversations and
intercept electronic communications.
Answer:
A(n) __________ uses sensors located around the vehicle to capture and record
information about vehicle speed and acceleration.
Answer:
Formulas, inventions, and processes are not considered forms of intellectual property.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
Industrial espionage and competitive intelligence are essentially the same.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
Copyright infringement is the act of stealing someone’s ideas or words and passing
them off as one’s own.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The Lanham Act (also known as the Trademark Act) defines the use of a trademark, the
process for obtaining a trademark, and the penalties associated with trademark
infringement.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
Software, video games, multimedia works, and Web pages can all be copyrighted.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
Defining and controlling the appropriate level of access to intellectual property are
complex tasks.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The fair use doctrine denies portions of patented materials to be used without
permission under any circumstance. a. True
b. False
Answer:
The__________ established the minimum levels of protection that each country must
provide to all WTO members.
a. World Trade Organization (WTO)
b. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
c. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
d. Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)
Answer:
A(n) __________ can read the machine language of a software program and produce
the source code.
a. compiler
b. open source decoder
c. re-engineering device
d. decompiler
Answer:
A(n) __________ prohibits a departing employee from working for any competitors for
a period of time.
a. noncompete agreement
b. license agreement
c. nondisclosure agreement
d. union agreement
Answer:
Unlike traditional copyright law, the__________ does not govern copying; instead, it
focuses on the distribution of tools and software that can be used for copyright
infringement as well as for legitimate non-infringing use.
a. TRIPS Agreement
b. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
c. WIPO Copyright Treaty
d. Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act
Answer:
__________ allows portions of copyrighted materials to be used without permission
under certain circumstances.
a. Plagiarism
b. Copyright infringement
c. Fair use doctrine
d. Use of prior art
Answer:
One of the tests that an invention must pass to be eligible for a patent is that it
must__________.
a. be a machine
b. not be economical to produce
c. be capable of providing economic benefit
d. be obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the same field
Answer:
In the context of Capability Maturity Model Integration, process is ad hoc and chaotic;
organization tends to overcommit and processes are often abandoned during times of
crisis in the__________ maturity level.
a. quantitatively managed
b. managed
c. defined
d. initial
Answer:
Products, such as statements of requirements, flowcharts, and user documentation, are
known as__________. a. project systems
b. information systems
c. objects
d. deliverables
Answer:
__________ are defined as a set of interrelated components that include hardware,
software, databases, networks, people, and procedures that collect data, process it, and
disseminate the output.
a. Management information systems
b. Decision support systems
c. Business information systems
d. Data information systems
Answer:
__________ is an important technique used to develop ISO 9001-compliant quality
systems.
a. DO-178B/EUROCCAE ED-128
b. N-version programming
c. Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA)
d. Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
Answer:
A(n) __________ is any error that, if not removed, could cause a software system to fail
to meet its users’ needs.
Answer:
__________ focuses on how to define, measure, and refine the quality of the
development process and the products developed during its various stages.
Answer:
As a result of the lack of consistent quality in software, many organizations avoid
buying the__________ release of a major software product.
Answer:
An airline’s online ticketreservation system and an electronic funds transfer system that
moves money among banks, are examples of__________.
Answer:
Productivity in a factory is measured by the annual revenue an employee generates
divided by the employee’s annual salary.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
In the early days of IT in the 1960s, productivity improvements were difficult to
measure.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
Since businesses implemented automated payroll systems, fewer accounting employees
are needed.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
It usually takes less than two years for IT investment to result in a significant increase
in productivity in large firms.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
Telework increases ad hoc work requests and disruptions from fellow workers.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The digital divide cannot exist within countries.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
Mastering the use of cell phones has a significant learning curve.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The country with the lowest Internet penetration in Asia is__________ .
a. Myanmar
b. India
c. China
d. South Korea
Answer:
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act is intended
to increase the use of health information technology by __________ .
a. requiring the government to develop individual standards for records in each medical
organization
b. providing incentives to encourage doctors and hospitals to pull together the paper
trail of a person’s medical history and immunization records
c. saving the government $10 billion through improvements in the quality of care, care
coordination,reductions in medical errors, and duplicate care
d. allowing everyone free access to a patient’s medical history and identifiable health
information
Answer:
One of the fundamental ways in which companies can try directly to increase
productivity is by__________ . a. increasing the amount of input required to produce a
given output
b. selling smaller quantities of goods to decrease capacity
c. decreasing the value of the output produced by a given amount of input
d. consolidating operations to better leverage economies of scale
Answer:
The PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Health Research Institute estimated that a 500-bed
hospital could receive __________ in HITECH incentives to purchase, deploy, and
maintain an EHR system.
a. $6.1 million
b. $296,000
c. $3.2 million
d. $800 billion
Answer:
Oil companies are increasingly relying on__________ to connect a nurse or EMT on an
oil platform to emergency physicians at a major medical center.
a. electronic consultation
b. remote monitoring
c. store-and-forward telemedicine
d. live telemedicine
Answer:
Remote monitoring is also known as __________.
a. real-time telehealth
b. home monitoring
c. telenursing
d. live telemedicine
Answer:
One common use of wireless technology in the healthcare field is to__________.
a. provide the public access to a patient’s medical history
b. provide access to Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements
c. provide a means to access and update EHRs
d. increase chances of duplicate care
Answer:
__________ helps physicians keep tabs on patients prone to life-threatening health
crises.
a. Inpatient codes
b. Medical information Web sites
c. Remote monitoring
d. SMS texts
Answer:
The medical information Web sites are intended to be__________ .
a. substitutes for paper documentation of a patient’s medical history
b. sources of professional medical advice for illnesses
c. substitutes for professional diagnosis and treatments
d. sources of reliable and objective information on medical-related topics
Answer:
The most widely used measurement of the material standard of living is__________ .
Answer:
A majority of social shopping Web sites generate revenue through__________ .
a. retailer advertising
b. sharing with retailers data about their members’ like and dislikes
c. membership fee
d. Internet service providers
Answer:
The National Center for Victims of Crime advises victims to__________ .
a. destroy all evidence of any contact with the cyberstalker
b. meet in a public place with the cyberstalker to talk things out before involving any
law enforcement officers
c. not consider getting law enforcement officers involved until the stalker threatens
violence
d. send the stalker a written notice that their contact is unwanted and that further contact
should cease
Answer:
__________ is a social shopping Web site that implemented a reward system for
members in which they are paid a commission each time another shopper acts on their
recommendations to purchase a specific item.
a. Buzzillions
b. ZEBO
c. Kaboodle
d. Stuffpit
Answer:
__________ built a virtual world model of its Salt Lake refinery for training new
operators.
a. British Petroleum
b. Exxon Mobil
c. Shell
d. Chevron
Answer:
MySpace purged__________ sex offenders from its site over a period of two years.
a. 25,000
b. 65,000
c. 90,000
d. 113,500
Answer:
A(n) __________ visa is a temporary work visa granted by the U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services for people who work in specialty occupations.
a. H-1B
b. L-1
c. B-1
d. B-2
Answer:
After a worker’s H1B visa expires, the foreigner must__________ .
a. return to school to get an advanced degree before applying for another H-1B visa
b. apply to become a U.S. citizen
c. remain outside the United States for one year before another H-1B petition will be
approved
d. never again apply for an H-1B visa
Answer:
Which of these statements about contingent workers is true?
a. They typically work as a separate, independent group of workers and move from
project to project working for the same firm.
b. They are often paid a lower hourly wage than full-time employees doing equivalent
work.
c. They are eligible for most company benefits such as vacation, sick pay, and medical
insurance.
d. They have neither an explicit nor an implicit contract for continuing employment.
Answer:
Since contingent workers are already specialists in a particular task, the hiring firm does
not customarily incur __________ .
a. relocation expenses
b. start-up costs
c. training costs
d. travel expenses
Answer:
The__________ in Egypt reduced the attractiveness of that country as a source of IT
outsourcing.
a. spike in oil prices
b. political unrest
c. limited number of resources
d. lack of education
Answer:
The__________ lawsuit dramatically illustrated the cost of misclassifying employees
and violating laws that cover compensation, taxes, unemployment insurance, and
overtime.
a. McClain v. Hewlett-Packard
b. Vizcaino v. Microsoft
c. Wainwright v. IBM
d. Brown et al v. Oracle
Answer:
Which of the following statements is true about the Bureau of Labor Statistics forecast
for employment between 2010 and 2020?
a. Business is facing a long-term excess of trained and experienced IT workers.
b. Organizations using IT products and services are concerned about the excess of U.S.
workers available to fill IT related positions.
c. 750,000 new jobs are expected to be added to IT related positions.
d. IT firms are more likely to turn to traditional sources than nontraditional sources to
find IT workers.
Answer:
Organizations often find that it can take years of ongoing effort and a large up-front
investment to develop a good __________ with an offshore outsourcing firm.
Answer:
A firm is likely to use contingent IT workers if it experiences pronounced fluctuations
in its__________ needs.
Answer:
The False Claims Act provides strong__________ protection.
Answer:
Personal computers are composed of many different materials known to be potentially
harmful to humans and the environment. These materials include beryllium, cadmium,
lead, mercury, selenium, polyvinyl chloride, and__________ .
Answer:
__________ and language differences can cause misunderstandings among project
members in different countries.
Answer:
Violators of the False Claims Act are liable for__________ times the dollar amount for
which the government was defrauded.
Answer:
As more businesses move their key processes offshore, U.S. IT service providers are
forced to__________ in order to compete.
Answer:
The qui tam provision of the__________ allows a private citizen to file a suit in the
name of the U.S. government, charging fraud by government contractors and other
entities who receive or use government funds.
Answer:
The__________ , also known as the Lincoln Law, was enacted to combat fraud by
companies that sold supplies to the Union Army.
Answer:
No organizations have found a practical way to conduct classes and meetings from
within a virtual learning world.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The__________ requires manufacturers to use at least 65 percent reusable or recyclable
components and reduce or eliminate toxic material in their packaging.
a. Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition Directive
b. Greenpeace Environmental Restriction of Hazardous Substances
c. European Union’s Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive
d. Electronic Product and Environmental Hazards Restriction Directive
Answer:
_____ describes standards or codes of behavior expected of an individual by a group
(nation, organization, profession) to which an individual belongs.
a. Ethics
b. Virtues
c. Laws
d. Morals
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A breach of the duty of care is defined as a failure to conform to the code of ethics of a
professional organization.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
In the business world, important decisions are too often left to the technical experts;
general business managers must assume greater responsibility for these decisions.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
When forced to choose between adding more user features and doing more testing,
most software companies decide in favor of more testing.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
A firm is likely to use contingent IT workers if it experiences pronounced fluctuations
in its technical staffing needs.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
Free-speech advocates believe that purchasing adult pornographic material is illegal and
wrong even for consenting adults.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
In some virtual worlds, an avatar can earn virtual world money by performing some
task in the virtual world and convert their virtual world money into real world cash.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The cost advantage of offshore outsourcing to India is continuing to increase.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
In integration testing, special software programs called static analyzers are run against
the new code.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
In a security incident, the primary goal must be to regain control and limit damage, and
not to attempt to monitor or catch an intruder.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
Employees may suppress their tendency to act in a manner that seems ethical to them
and instead act in a manner that will protect them against anticipated punishment.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The goal of the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) was to protect children from
harmful material on the World Wide Web, however, it was ruled unconstitutional.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
Government licensing of IT workers is common within most of the states of the United
States.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
__________ requires the presence of patients and healthcare providers at different sites
at the same time and often involves a videoconference link between the two sites.
a. Store-and-forward telemedicine
b. Live telemedicine
c. Electronic consultation
d. Remote monitoring
Answer:
Copyright and patent protection was established through__________.
a. the Bill of Rights
b. the U.S. Federal Codes and Statutes
c. the U.S. Constitution
d. various state laws
Answer:
Some industry observers identify the increasing use of__________ as an important first
step in bridging the digital divide in many countries.
a. electronic health records
b. cell phones
c. personal digital assistants
d. laptop computers
Answer:
__________ can be oral, written, or inferred from the seller’s conduct.
a. Indemnity
b. Strict liabilities
c. Warranty tolling
d. Express warranties
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The impact of software defects is always trivial.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
Employees and contract workers must be educated about the importance of security so
that they will be motivated to understand and follow the security policies.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The False Claims Act was enacted during__________ .
a. the U.S. Civil War
b. World War I
c. World War II
d. the Vietnam War
Answer:
It is relatively easy to pull together the paper trail created by a patient’s interactions with
various healthcare entities to create a clear, meaningful, consolidated view of that
person’s health history.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
Reverse engineering can only be applied to computer hardware, not computer software.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
A complex system used in IT is a redundant array of independent disks (RAID), which
is commonly used in __________ for file servers.
a. high-volume data storage
b. low-volume data storage
c. unpredictable-volume data storage
d. irregular-volume data storage
Answer:
__________ involves placing banner ads on a social networking Web site.
a. Advertising through groups
b. Social shopping
c. Direct advertising
d. Viral marketing
Answer:
In the context of the Capability Maturity Model Integration maturity levels, the
percentage of organizations at the managed maturity level is__________ .
a. 8
b. 7
c. 9
d. 1
Answer:
The Bill of Rights provides protection for the expression of minority views including
speech that is unpopular or highly offensive to a majority of people.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
Consistency means that shareholders, customers, suppliers, and the community know
what they can expect of an organizationthat it will behave in the future much as it has in
the past.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
Software quality is the degree to which a software product meets the needs of its users.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
A common use of open source software is to move data from one application to another
and to extract, transform, and load business data into large databases.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The plaintiff in a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP) can present
themselves to the court admitting that their intent is to censor their critics.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
Computer forensics is such a new field that there is little training or certification
processes available to practioners.
a. True
b. False
Answer:
The Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks U.S. productivity on a(n)__________ basis.
a. monthly
b. annual
c. semiannual
d. quarterly
Answer:
The key lesson from Vizcaino v.Microsoft is that even if contractors sign an agreement
indicating that they are contractors and not employees, the deciding factor about
whether or not they are viewed as employees is not the agreement but__________ .
a. how many hours per week they are asked to work
b. who oversees their work
c. the degree of control the company exercises over the employees
d. who performs their performance appraisal
Answer:
Poor__________ design between systems and humans can greatly increase risk,
sometimes with tragic consequences.
Answer:
__________ has become an umbrella term for many types of malicious code.
Answer:
A(n) __________ is a form of malware in which malicious code is hidden inside a
seemingly harmless program.
Answer:
A written defamatory statement is called__________.
Answer:
In the decision-making process of implementing the decision, a(n) _____ plan must be
defined to explain to people how they will move from the old way of doing things to the
new way.
Answer:
The cooperation between an employee of a company and an outsider to commit fraud
against the company is called __________ .
Answer:
__________ treats the software unit as a device that has expected input and output
behaviors but whose internal workings are known.
Answer:
__________ operates in a software layer that runs on top of the operating system.
Answer:
The moral corruption of people in power, which is often facilitated by a tendency for
people to look the other way when their leaders act inappropriately has been given the
name _____ .
Answer:
Outline some specific actions to take if you are a victim of cyberstalking.
Answer:
One of the key requirements of the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited
Pornography and Marketing (CAN- SPAM) Act is that an email must be identified as
a(n) __________ and include a valid physical postal address for the sender.
Answer:
During the problem definition process, one must be extremely careful not make _____
about the situation.
Answer:
The__________ encourages private industry to share confidential information about the
nation’s critical infrastructure with the Department of Homeland Security under the
assurance that the information will be protected from public disclosure.
Answer:
Creating a Web site or social networking profile to humiliate or threaten an individual is
a form of__________ .
Answer:
The two primary objectives of social media advertisers are raising__________ and
driving traffic to a Web site to increase product sales.
Answer:
Discuss the benefits of using cell phones to bridge the digital divide.
Answer: