BUS 220 Test #3 Chapters 9-12

The current phase of technology is the service society.

False

Plants and animals living as a natural unified system are called an ecosystem.

True

A CIO is the company's:

Chief Information Officer

The responsibility of managing technology with its many privacy and security issues for business organizations is entrusted to the CFO.

False

The most successful global businesses in coming years will be those companies that:

Recognize the imperative for sustainable development as an opportunity both for competitive advantage and ethical action.

In the United States, the federal government regulates which of the following major areas of environmental protection?

All are Correct

Emission fees are accurately characterized by which statement(s)?

All are correct

Reasons for the destruction of rain forests include:

All of these answers are correct.

The ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings is called:

Artificial intelligence

A compulsion to engage in rewarding behaviors, despite negative consequences is called:

Behavioral Addiction

General Electric's "Ecomagination" effort to invest in clean technology is an example of:

Clean Technology

One major advantage of conducting business online is:

Cost effective marketing and promotions

The amount of land and water a human population needs to produce the resources it consumes and to absorb its wastes given prevailing technology is called:

Ecological footprint.

Software piracy is a major problem in which part of the world?

Globally

How did some authoritarian governments justify limiting citizens' access to the Internet?

Improved National Security

In the United States, most solid waste ends up:

In Landfills

A thin layer of gas that protects the Earth from excessive ultraviolet radiation from the sun is:

Ozone.

The practice of using fake business emails in order to trick users into divulging personal data, such as usernames and passwords, is called:

Phishing

Environmental justice is a movement to:

Prevent inequitable exposure to risk, such as from hazardous waste.

A person's entitlement to protection from invasion of one's personal life is called the:

Right to privacy

One argument in favor of net neutrality is:

To fairly compete, small, medium, and large firms should have the same Internet bandwidth.

A 2017 report indicated that the most frequent email phishing attacks were against the payment, financial, and webmail sectors.

True

By setting a common standard for all firms, government can take the cost of pollution control out of competition.

True

In 2018 the European Union passed legislation to protect personal user data during collection, processing, and storage.

True

In the United States the government has tried to help narrow the digital divide by subsidizing Internet upgrades for schools and providing free cell phones to citizens in need.

True

Rewards and incentives are effective ways to make business people consider the environmental impacts of their actions.

True

Sustainable development will require technology cooperation through long-term partnerships between companies in developed and developing countries to transfer environmental technologies.

True

The United States first of several federal laws involved the protection of the environments navigable waterways.

True

The collection of large amounts of consumer data by businesses creates ethical issues of privacy and security.

True

The dominant feature of technology is change and then more change.

True

The leading contributor to global warming is the burning of fossil fuels, which releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

True

The world's natural resource base—the air, water, soil, minerals, and so forth—is essentially finite, or bounded.

True

Under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, the government regulates hazardous waste from "cradle to grave."

True