Practice Test - Chapter 4
Which of the following resulted in a Christmas Eve outage for millions of Netflix customers?
A failure of Amazon's cloud computing service
________ is a feature of social institutions that means mechanisms are in place to determine responsibility for an action.
Accountability
Which of the following were involved in what has been called the patent trial of the century?
Apple and Samsung
All of the following laws apply to actions by the federal government except the:
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
Which of the following is not a U.S. federal law affecting private institutions?
Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act
Which of the following adjusts copyright laws to the Internet age by making it illegal to circumvent technology-based protections of copyrighted materials?
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
________ is a feature of law-governed society and involves having laws that are known and understood, along with the ability to appeal to higher authorities to ensure that the laws are applied correctly.
Due Process
Which of the following U.S. laws gives patients access to personal medical records and the right to authorize how this information can be used or disclosed?
HIPAA
A man steals from a grocery store in order to feed his starving family. Which of the following best expresses the utilitarian principle in evaluating this situation?
His action is acceptable, because the higher social value is the survival of the family
Which of the following is a primary drawback to the "do anything anywhere" work environment?
It blurs the traditional boundaries between work and family time.
Which of the following best describes the effect that new information technology has on society?
It has a ripple effect, raising new ethical, social, and political issues
A colleague at work takes small amounts of office supplies for her own personal use, saying that this is a tiny loss to the company. You tell her that if everyone were to take office supplies, then the loss would no longer be minimal. Your rationale expresses which of the following ethical principles?
Kant's Categorical Imperative
Which of the following is not protected by copyright law?
Machines
Fair Information Practices (FIP) principles are based on a belief in which of the following?
Mutuality of interest between the record holder and the individual
Which of the following is a data analysis technology that finds hidden connections between data in disparate sources?
NORA Non Obvious Relationship Awareness
What percent of global Internet users use Google Search and other Google services such as YouTube?
Over 90 percent
________ grants the owner exclusive ownership of the ideas behind an invention for 20 years.
Patent law
The use of computers to assemble data from different sources to create digital dossiers of detailed information about individuals is known as which of the following?
Profiling
The obligations that individuals and organizations have concerning rights to intellectual property involve which of the following moral dimensions of the information age?
Property rights and obligations
The obligations that individuals and organizations have regarding the preservation of existing values and institutions fall within which of the following moral dimensions of the information age?
Quality of life
Which of the five moral dimensions of the information age does the weakening of boundaries between work and family life involve?
Quality of life
Which of the following occurs when muscle groups are forced through tens of thousands of repetitions under low-impact loads?
RSI Repetitive Strain Injury
________ means that you accept the potential costs and obligations for the decisions you make.
Responsibility
Which ethical rule states that if an action cannot be taken repeatedly, it is not right to take at all?
Slippery-slope rule
Which of the following statements about spam is not true?
Spamming is more tightly regulated in the United States than in Europe.
Which of the following ethical guidelines suggests that you put yourself in the place of others, and think of yourself as the object of the decision?
The Golden Rule
Which of the following is NOT true about the changes to EU data protection rules enacted in the GDPR?
The new rules do not allow consumers to have their data removed from company servers
________ allows an organization to collect personal information without the user's explicit consent.
The opt-out model
Which of the following is not a difficulty in establishing patent protection?
The requirement that the work must be a secret
Which of the following best describes how new information systems can result in legal gray areas?
They result in new situations that are not covered by old laws.
Which of the following forms of protection of intellectual property requires that the property be the subject of a nondisclosure agreement?
Trade secret
All of the following are steps in the process for analyzing an ethical issue except:
assigning responsibility
Advertisers use ________ in order to display more relevant ads based on a user's search and browsing history.
behavioral targeting
Which of the following statements about cookies is not true?
cookies are installed only at the user's request
Which of the following is the most common reason that business systems fail?
data quality
All of the following are technical solutions to protecting user privacy except:
data use policies
Which of the following terms refers to significant disparities in access to computers and the Internet among different social groups and different locations?
digital divide
Digital media differs from a physical book in all of the following ways except:
ease of establishing uniqueness.
The Network Advertising Initiative is an industry association that:
encourages self-regulation to develop a set of privacy guidelines for its members.
CVS refers to:
eyestrain related to computer display screen use computer vision syndrome
In 2010, the FTC added all of the following recommendations to its privacy guidelines except:
firms should limit the length of time that any personal data is stored to six months or less.
Which of the following best describes Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative?
if an action is not right for everyone to take, it is not right for anyone to take
The ethical "no free lunch" rule states that:
if something someone else has created is useful to you, it has value, and you should assume the creator wants compensation for this work.
Redesigning and automating business processes can be seen as a double-edged sword because:
increases in efficiency may be accompanied by job losses
Which of the five moral dimensions of the information system age do the central business activities of DoubleClick involve?
information rights and obligations
When a cookie is created during a website visit, it is stored:
on the hard drive of the visitor's computer
In the ________ model of informed consent, personal information cannot be collected until the consumer specifically agrees that his or her data can be collected.
opt-in
The U.S. CAN-SPAM Act:
requires commercial email senders to identify themselves.
The ________ is a feature of the GDPR that allows individuals to have their personal information removed from social network and search sites.
right to be forgotten
The GDPR created a ________ framework in order to enable U.S. businesses to legally use personal data from EU countries.
safe harbor
"Look and feel" copyright infringement lawsuits are concerned with:
the distinction between an idea and its expression
According to ________, you should take the action that produces the least harm.
the risk aversion principle
The FIP principle of Notice/Awareness states that:
websites must disclose their information practices before collecting data
