CIS3250 Ch 6-10
In the context of development of safety critical systems, if an undesirable event has a ten percent probability of occurring and a potential cost of $50,000, then the risk can be calculated as which of the following?
$5000
As of March 2017, how many states had implemented the SORNA requirements of the Adam Walsh Act?
17
Which federal law protects children against online stalking by making it a federal crime to communicate with any person with the intent to solicit or entice a child into unlawful sexual activity?
18 USC 2425
The number of Internet users worldwide is quickly approaching which of the following?
4 billion
Approximately how much material is being uploaded to YouTube every minute making it difficult to review all material submitted for posting?
400 hours
Almost every job has partial automation potential, and research suggests what percentage of human work activities could be automated using existing technology?
45 percent
How many H-1B visas has Congress set as the maximum amount to be granted yearly?
65,000
Which act allows trademark owners to challenge foreign cybersquatters who might otherwise be beyond the jurisdiction of U.S. courts?
ACPA
Which of the following established the minimum levels of protection that each country must provide to all WTO members?
Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)
Which of the following 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?
Business information systems
At which of the Capability Maturity Model Integration maturity levels, are processes well defined, understood, and consistent across the organization?
Defined
A comprehensive view of the patient's complete medical history designed to be shared with authorized providers and staff from more than one organization is known as which of the following?
EHR
Which of the following requires manufacturers to use at least 65 percent reusable or recyclable components and reduce or eliminate toxic material in their packaging?
European Union's Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive
An important technique used to develop ISO 9001-compliant quality systems by both evaluating reliability and determining the effects of system and equipment failures is which of the following?
Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA)
Which of the following allows portions of copyrighted materials to be used without permission under certain circumstances?
Fair use doctrine
Because organizations can risk losing trade secrets when key employees leave, they often try to prohibit employees from revealing secrets by adding non-compete clauses to employment contracts.
False
Black-box testing treats the software unit as a device that has expected input and output behaviors but whose internal workings are known.
False
Formulas, inventions, and processes are not considered forms of intellectual property.
False
From 2007 to June 2016, the percentage of organizations determined to be at a high-maturity level is 50.
False
It is fairly simple to prevent contingent workers from passing on corporate processes and strategies to subsequent employers.
False
Machine learning is a branch of engineering that involves the development and manufacture of mechanical or computer devices that can perform tasks that require a high degree of precision or that are tedious or hazardous for human beings.
False
MySpace is the most popular social network destination worldwide.
False
Organic media marketing involves the use of social networks to communicate and promote the benefits of products and services.
False
Quotation marks, which can be used to quickly spread a company's message, allow a company's tweets to be seen not only by its followers but also by those who are interested in the topic being tweeted about.
False
Social shopping Web sites earn money solely by sharing with retailers data about their members' likes and dislikes.
False
The Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition established a system that enables purchasers to evaluate, compare, and select electronic products based on a total of 51 environmental criteria.
False
The U.S. Congress has approved the granting of an unlimited number of H-1B visas.
False
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty of 1996 eliminated many of the original copyright protections for electronic media.
False
The first release of a software product typically meets all its users' expectations.
False
The impact of software defects is always trivial.
False
The recommended approach to put an end to cyberstalking is to insist that the cyberstalker meet face-to-face with the victim to talk things out.
False
The term of copyright has been extended several times from its original limit of 25 years to 35 years.
False
There is no evidence that the hiring of H-1B workers has affected the salaries of U.S. IT workers.
False
Today most radiologists employ a personal health record system to review cases from a remote location.
False
Transference is the provision of multiple interchangeable components to perform a single function in order to cope with failures and errors.
False
When developing safety-critical systems, a key assumption must be that safety will automatically result from following an organization's standard development methodology.
False
Which of the following is true of the International Organization for Standardization?
It is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies from 161 countries.
Which company has been able to achieve EPEAT's Gold level by using increasing amounts of recycled plastics in their product development?
Lenovo
Which of the following is currently the world's largest professional network?
Which of the following 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?
Live telemedicine
Which of the following is an approach to minimizing the impact of software errors by independently implementing the same set of user requirements N times, where N could be 2, 3, 4, or more?
N-version programming
Which of the following social network platforms enables users to visually share and discover new interests by posting images or videos to their own or others' boards?
Which of the following terms is defined as the existing body of knowledge available to a person of ordinary skill in the art?
Prior art
Which of the following helps physicians keep tabs on patients prone to life-threatening health crises?
Remote monitoring
Which of the following involves the regular, ongoing, accurate measurement of an individual's vital signs and other health measures and the transmission of this data to a healthcare provider?
Remote monitoring
Which of the following is an internationally recognized standard that companies can use to ensure that company data is protected in an outsourcing arrangement.
Statement on Standards for Attestation and Engagements No. 16
Which of the following requires member governments to ensure that intellectual property rights can be enforced under their laws and that penalties for infringement are tough enough to deter further violations?
TRIPS agreement
Which of the following imposes penalties of up to $10 million and 15 years in prison for the theft of trade secrets?
The Economic Espionage Act (EEA) of 1996
Which of the following is a true statement about the number of declared undergraduate computer science majors based on data from the National Center for Education Statistics?
There are some 130,000 new computer and information science graduates each year.
Which of these statements about contingent workers is true?
They have neither an explicit nor an implicit contract for continuing employment.
What type of programming is commonly found in airplane and spacecraft control systems?
Triple version programming
A PHR can exist either as a stand-alone application that allows information to be exported to or imported from other sources or as a "tethered" application connected to a specific healthcare organization's information system.
True
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.
True
A copyright is the exclusive right to distribute, display, perform, or reproduce an original work in copies or to prepare derivative works based on the work.
True
A failure mode describes how a product or process could fail to perform the desired functions described by the customer.
True
A key requirement for using H-1B workers is that employers must pay H-1B workers the prevailing wage for the work being performed.
True
Based on the data from the National Center for Education Statistics there are some 130,000 new computer and information science graduates each year to fill what the BLS projects as a need of roughly 53,000 new U.S. tech job openings per year.
True
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is a process improvement approach that defines the essential elements of effective processes.
True
Copyright law protects authored works such as art, books, and film.
True
Defining and controlling the appropriate level of access to intellectual property are complex tasks.
True
Depending on how closely workers are supervised and how the job is structured, contingent workers may be viewed as permanent employees by the Internal Revenue Service, the Labor Department, or a state's workers' compensation and employment agencies.
True
If a whistle-blower wants to remain unknown, the safest course of action is to leak information anonymously to the press.
True
In a coemployment relationship, two employers have actual or potential legal rights and duties with respect to the same employee or group of employees.
True
Machine learning has contributed to the development of a much more in-depth understanding of the human genome as well as practical speech recognition, improved web search results, and self-driving cars.
True
Social media platforms also enable a degree of self-image manipulation.
True
Some 18 percent of private employers surveyed say they have dismissed employees because of something they posted on social media.
True
The World Trade Organization (WTO) developed the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights to establish the minimum levels of protection that each government must provide to the intellectual property of all WTO members.
True
The development and use of new medical technology, such as new diagnostic procedures and treatments, also contributes to the increase in healthcare spending per person.
True
The standard of living varies greatly among groups within a country as well as from nation to nation.
True
User acceptance testing is performed by trained end users to ensure that the system operates as they expect.
True
Which of the following systems include the people, procedures, hardware, software, data, and knowledge needed to develop computer systems and machines that simulate human intelligence processes?
artificial intelligence systems
If the product fails to meet the terms of its written guarantee, the buyer or lessee can sue for which of the following?
breach of warranty
Legally obtained information that is gathered to help a company gain an advantage over its rivals is called which of the following?
competitive intelligence
The majority of people hired with H-1B visas in 2015 were hired primarily as which of the following positions?
computer programmers and system analysts
What type of system enables physicians to place orders electronically, with the order transmitted directly to the recipient?
computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system
IT investments may produce tangible results such as:
cost savings
Abusive behavior, which involves the use of an electronic communications device, that is degrading, humiliating, hurtful, insulting, intimidating, malicious, or otherwise offensive to an individual or group of individuals causing substantial emotional distress is known as which of the following?
cyberharassment
Employers can legally reject a job applicant based on the contents of the individual's social networking profile as long as the company is not violating which kind of laws?
discrimination
One approach to quality assurance is to test the code for a completed unit of software by actually entering test data and comparing the results with the expected results in a process known as which of the following?
dynamic testing
What steps does Facebook plan to take in order to identify and prevent the posting of inappropriate images in Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram?
employ artificial intelligence and image
The courts have ruled in favor of using reverse engineering to:
enable interoperability
Researchers have found that it can take how long for IT investment to result in a significant increase in productivity?
five to seven years
What term is used to refer to a work environment in which temporary positions are common and organizations contract with independent workers for short-term engagements?
gig economy
A complex system used in IT is a redundant array of independent disks (RAID), which is commonly used in which type of file servers?
high-volume data storage
Innovation is a key factor in productivity improvement. Which of the following has played an important role in enabling innovation?
information technology
Patent law protects which of the following?
inventions
A measure of economic performance that compares the amount of goods and services produced (output) with the number of labor hours used in producing those goods and services is known as which of the following?
labor productivity
While using social networks as part of the hiring process, employers can:
look at the profiles of potential candidates
What type of artificial intelligence involves computer programs that can learn some task and improve performance with experience?
machine learning
The primary areas where IT has been applied include all of the following except:
medical language processing
An airline's online ticket-reservation system and an electronic funds transfer system that moves money among banks, are examples of which of the following?
order-processing systems
What is another name for a tethered PHR?
patient portal
For which of the following reasons has Egypt become a less attractive country as a source of IT outsourcing?
political unrest
Which of the following is a part of the False Claims Act that 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?
qui tam provision
Cybersquatters:
register domain names for famous trademarks or company names to which they have no connection
A majority of social shopping platforms generate revenue through which of the following?
retailer advertising
To avoid legal issues and set clear guidelines and expectations for employees, employers should put which of the following in place?
social media policy
Which of the following claims as its invention some feature or process embodied in instructions executed by a computer?
software patent
One potential disadvantage of using contingent workers is that:
they may not feel a strong connection to the company for which they are working
Which of the following is an approach to social media marketing that encourages individuals to pass along a marketing message to others, thus creating the potential for exponential growth in the message's exposure and influence?
viral marketing
