Ethics Exam 6-10
Innovation is a key factor in productivity improvement. Which of the following has played an important role in enabling innovation?
information technology
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 which of the following maturity levels?
initial
Copyright and patent protection was established through which of the following?
the U.S. Constitution
Software quality is defined as the degree to which a software product meets:
the needs of its users.
Which country is considered one of the best sources of programming skills outside of Europe and North America?
India
What term is used to identify a form of outsourcing in which services are provided by an organization whose employees are in a foreign country?
Offshore outsourcing
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
Offshore demand is driving up salaries in India by roughly how much per year?
15 percent
What percent of private employers surveyed say that they have dismissed employees because of something they posted on social media?
18 percent
In what year was The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) signed into law?
1998
For a sex offender who is at Tier 2 of the Adam Walsh Act, how long do they need to remain registered.
25 years
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
Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) is a system that enables purchasers to evaluate, compare, and select electronic products based on a total of how many environmental criteria?
51
Which of the following statements is true about the Bureau of Labor Statistics forecast for employment between 2014 and 2024?
532,000 new jobs are expected to be added to IT related positions.
Companies applying for H-1B visas must offer a wage that is at least what percent of the average salary for the occupation?
95%
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)
After an organization decides to adopt which of the following, it must conduct an assessment of its software development practices to determine where they fit in the capability model?
CMMI-DEV
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
Which of the following enables a DVD player or a computer drive to decrypt, unscramble, and play back motion pictures on DVDs, but not copy them?
Content Scramble System (CSS)
At which of the Capability Maturity Model Integration maturity levels, are processes well defined, understood, and consistent across the organization?
Defined
Unlike traditional copyright law, which of the following acts 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?
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
Which of the following is currently the most popular social network destination worldwide?
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
The goal of which of the following was to entice whistle-blowers to come forward by offering them a share of the money recovered?
False Claims Act
Organizations can use which of the following to capture interviews with customers, managers, and industry leaders? Twitter
Google Hangouts On Air
What type of visa is a temporary work visa granted by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for people who work in specialty occupations?
H-1B
Which family of standards serves many industries and organizations as a guide to quality products, services, and management?
ISO 9001
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 increased trademark and copyright enforcement and substantially increased penalties for infringement?
Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act
What is the name of the project at the Georgia Institute of Technology that uses stories to teach human values to robots?
Quixote
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
The process of taking something apart in order to understand it, build a copy of it, or improve it is known as which of the following?
Reverse engineering
Which social media platform provides filters that alter the user's face by smoothing and whitening skin, changing eye shape, nose size, and jaw profile?
Snapchat
Which of the following typically involves the use of social networks to communicate and promote the benefits of products and services?
Social media marketing
Which of the following was a legislator and former singer and entertainer who co-sponsored the Copyright Term Extension Act? Frank Sinatra
Sonny Bono
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 is true of software testing?
Static testing involves software programs called static analyzers which are run against new code.
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 technologies employs electronic information processing and telecommunications to support at-a-distance health care, provide professional and patient health-related training, and support healthcare administration?
Telehealth
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 true of strategies for engineering quality software?
The first release of any software rarely meets all its users' expectations.
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.
A patent is a grant of a property right issued by which entity?
USPTO
Which act was drafted in the 1970s to bring uniformity to all the United States in the area of trade secret law?
Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA)
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
A situation in which two employers have actual or potential legal rights and duties with respect to the same employee or group of employees is called which of the following?
a coemployment relationship
An electronic medical record includes which of the following?
a patient's immunization records
An advantage of social network advertising over traditional advertising media is:
ads can be targeted to reach people with the desired demographic characteristics
Advances in which of the following areas are fundamentally changing the way work gets done and have the potential to affect the tasks, roles, and responsibilities of most workers?
artificial intelligence
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
A process and a set of tools designed to enhance healthcare-related decision making through the use of clinical knowledge to improve healthcare delivery is known as which of the following
clinical decision support
A social networking platform:
can be used for business purposes
One of the fundamental ways in which companies can try directly to increase productivity is by:
consolidating operations to better leverage economies of scale
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
Which of the following can read the machine language of a software program and produce the source code?
decompiler
An example of robotics can be found in which of the following examples?
device used to move heavy pallets
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 recognition
In which of the following practices does a business transfer all or part of its workforce to another firm, which handles all human-resource-related activities and costs?
employee leasing
After a six year H-1B visa expires, a foreign professional can convert their H-1B visa into which of the following?
green card
The safety engineer uses a logging and monitoring system to track which of the following?
hazards
Which process can reduce expensive redundant tests that are ordered because one provider does not have access to the clinical information stored at another provider's location?
health information exchange
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
Remote monitoring is also known as which of the following?
home monitoring
After successful unit testing, the subsystems are combined to test the entire system as a complete entity using what form of testing?
integration testing
Patent law protects which of the following?
inventions
One of the tests that an invention must pass to be eligible for a patent is which of the following?
it must be obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the same field
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
A disadvantage of using contingent workers is that they:
may pass on information about corporate processes and strategies to subsequent clients who could be competitors
The primary areas where IT has been applied include all of the following except:
medical language processing
When sued for which of the following, a software supplier is not held responsible for every product defect that causes customer or third-party loss?
negligence
What is the name of the agreement that prohibits a departing employee from working for any competitors for a period of time?
noncompete agreement
Researchers have found that it can take how long for IT investment to result in a significant increase in productivity?
only a few months
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
Which of the following employs tools provided by or tailored for a particular social media platform to build a social community and interact with it by sharing posts and responding to customer comments on the organization's blog and social media accounts?
organic media marketing
For which of the following reasons has Egypt become a less attractive country as a source of IT outsourcing?
political unrest
Process-control computers enable the process to be monitored for variations from operating standards and to eliminate product defects before they affect which of the following?
quality
How often does The Bureau of Labor Statistics track U.S. productivity?
quarterly
The two primary objectives of social media advertisers are driving traffic to a Web site to increase product sales and which of the following?
raise brand awareness
A majority of social shopping platforms generate revenue through which of the following?
retailer advertising
Inappropriate material posted online includes nonconsensual posts that comprise intimate photos or videos of people without their permission is known as which of the following
revenge porn
One potential disadvantage of using contingent workers is that:
they may not feel a strong connection to the company for which they are working
How many classes of items did the U.S. Supreme Court rule could not be patented?
three
Violators of the False Claims Act are liable for how many times the dollar amount for which the government was defrauded?
three
Since contingent workers are already specialists in a particular task, the hiring firm does not customarily incur which of the following?
training costs
Which of the following examples is a use of wireless technology in the healthcare field?
transmit ECG data to a physician's smartphone
Global market research company J.D. Power claims that how many consumers have used a company's social media channel for customer service?
two-thirds
In an attempt to limit their liability in the event of nonperformance, software suppliers frequently write which of the following?
warranties
Which of the following terms is used to describe an effort to attract public attention to a negligent, illegal, unethical, abusive, or dangerous act by an individual or organization?
whistle-blowing
