Deck 27: Ethics

Question 1

Which act allows any person to examine government records unless it would cause an invasion of privacy?

A) The Privacy Act
B) The Bork bill
C) The Freedom of Information Act
D) The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act

Answer 1

C
Explanation: The Freedom of Information Act allows any person to examine government records unless it causes an invasion of privacy.

Question 2

Which act restricts what information the federal government can collect?

A) The Privacy Act
B) The Bork bill
C) The Freedom of Information Act
D) The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act

Answer 2

A
Explanation: The Privacy Act restricts what information the federal government can collect.

Question 3

What is the unauthorized use,duplication,distribution,or sale of copyrighted software?

A) Fair Use Doctrine
B) Pirated software
C) Counterfeit software
D) Privacy

Answer 3

B
Explanation: This is the definition of pirated software.

Question 4

Which of the following is not considered an ePolicy?

A) Acceptable use policy
B) Email Privacy policy
C) Ethical computer use policy
D) Security badge policy

Question 5

Which act strengthened criminal laws governing identity theft?

A) Bork Bill
B) Sarbanes-Oxley Act
C) Cable Communications Act
D) None of these

Question 6

Which act protects investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures?

A) The Sarbanes-Oxley Act
B) The Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act
C) The CAN-Spam Act
D) None of these

Question 7

What is the ideal type of decision making for people in an organization?

A) Legal and ethical
B) Illegal and ethical
C) Legal and unethical
D) Illegal and unethical

Question 8

Which of the following describes confidentiality?

A) The assurance that messages and information are available only to those who are authorized to view them.
B) Policies and procedures that address the ethical use of computers and Internet usage in the business environment.
C) The right to be left alone when you want to be, to have control over your own personal possessions, and not to be observed without your consent.
D) The principles and standards that guide our behavior toward other people.

Question 9

What is software that is manufactured to look like the real thing and sold as such?

A) Fair Use Doctrine
B) Pirated software
C) Counterfeit software
D) Privacy

Question 10

Which of the following describes privacy?

A) The assurance that messages and data are available only to those who are authorized to view them.
B) Policies and procedures that address the ethical use of computers and Internet usage in the business environment.
C) The right to be left alone when you want to be, to have control over your own personal possessions, and to not be observed without your consent.
D) The principles and standards that guide our behavior toward other people.

Question 11

Which of the following is an example of acting ethically?

A) Individuals copy, use, and distribute software.
B) Employees search organizational databases for sensitive corporate and personal information.
C) Individuals hack into computer systems to steal proprietary information.
D) None of these

Question 12

What is the legal protection afforded an expression of an idea,such as a song,video game,and some types of proprietary documents?

A) Ethics
B) Intellectual property
C) Copyright
D) Privacy

Question 13

What is the assurance that messages and information remain available only to those authorized to view them?

A) Confidentiality
B) Pirated software
C) Counterfeit software
D) Privacy

Question 14

What are the principles and standards that guide our behavior toward other people?

A) Ethics
B) Intellectual property
C) Copyright
D) Privacy

Question 15

What is intangible creative work that is embodied in physical form?

A) Ethics
B) Intellectual property
C) Copyright
D) Confidentiality

Question 16

What are the policies and procedures that address the ethical use of computers and Internet usage in the business environment?

A) Ethics
B) ePolicies
C) All of these
D) None of these

Question 17

Which of the following describes ePolicies?

A) The assurance that messages and data are available only to those who are authorized to view them.
B) Policies and procedures that address the ethical use of computers and Internet usage in the business environment.
C) The right to be left alone when you want to be, to have control over your own personal possessions, and not to be observed without your consent.
D) The principles and standards that guide our behavior toward other people.

Question 18

Which act prohibits the use of video rental information on customers for any purpose other than that of marketing goods and services directly to the consumer?

A) The Privacy Act
B) The Bork bill
C) The Freedom of Information Act
D) The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act

Question 19

What is the right to be left alone when you want to be,to have control over your own personal possessions,and not to be observed without your consent?

A) Fair Use Doctrine
B) Pirated software
C) Counterfeit software
D) Privacy

Question 20

Which of the following is not included in the four quadrants of ethical and legal behavior?

A) Legal behavior and ethical behavior
B) Illegal behavior and ethical behavior
C) Legal behavior and unethical behavior
D) All of these

Question 21

Which policy ensures that the users know how to behave at work and that the organization has a published standard through which to deal with user infractions?

A) Information privacy policy
B) Acceptable use policy
C) Internet use policy
D) Ethical computer use policy

Question 22

Which policy contains general principles regarding information privacy?

A) Information privacy policy
B) Acceptable use policy
C) Internet use policy
D) Anti-Spam policy

Question 23

Which policy typically contains a nonrepudiation clause?

A) Ethical computer use policy
B) Anti-spam policy
C) Information privacy policy
D) Acceptable use policy

Question 24

What is a contractual stipulation that ensures that ebusiness participants do not deny their online actions?

A) Copyright
B) Fair use doctrine
C) Nonrepudiation
D) Intellectual property

Question 25

What is a policy that a user must agree to follow in order to be provided access to a network or to the Internet?

A) Ethical computer use policy
B) Acceptable use policy
C) Nonrepudiation policy
D) None of these

Question 26

Which of the following is part of the acceptable use policy stipulations?

A) Using the service to violate a law
B) Posting commercial messages to groups without prior permission
C) Performing nonrepudiation
D) Not attempting to mail bomb a site

Question 27

Which policy details the extent to which email messages may be read by others?

A) Acceptable use policy
B) Email privacy policy
C) Internet use policy
D) None of these

Question 28

If an organization were to have only one policy,which one would it want?

A) Information privacy policy
B) Acceptable use policy
C) Internet use policy
D) Ethical computer use policy

Question 29

Which of the following describes Workplace MIS monitoring?

A) Tracking people's activities by such measures as number of keystrokes.
B) Tracking people's activities by such measures as error rate.
C) Tracking people's activities by such measures as number of transactions processed.
D) All of these.

Question 30

What is a mail bomb?

A) Sending a massive amount of email to a specific person or system that can cause that user's server to stop functioning.
B) A contractual stipulation to ensure that ebusiness participants do not deny their online actions.
C) Sending a few emails to random people or systems resulting in filling up the user's disk space.
D) A contractual stipulation to ensure that ebusiness participants deny their online actions.

Question 31

What is the policy that contains general principles to guide computer user behavior?

A) Information privacy policy
B) Acceptable use policy
C) Internet use policy
D) None of these

Question 32

What is a hardware device that captures keystrokes on their journey from the keyboard to the motherboard?

A) Spyware
B) Hardware key logger
C) Cookie
D) Adware

Question 33

What is a small file deposited on a hard drive by a website containing information about customers and their web activities?

A) Key logger
B) Hardware key logger
C) Cookie
D) Adware

Question 34

What is a program,when installed on a computer,records every keystroke and mouse click?

A) Key logger software
B) Spyware
C) Cookie
D) Adware

Question 35

Which of the following is not a part of the email privacy policy stipulations?

A) It defines who legitimate email users are.
B) It explains the backup procedures.
C) It describes the legitimate grounds for reading someone's email.
D) It informs people that the organization has full control over email once it is transmitted outside the organization.

Question 36

Which policy is it common practice for many businesses and educational facilities to require employees or students to sign before being gaining network access?

A) Information privacy policy
B) Acceptable use policy
C) Anti-spam policy
D) Ethical computer use policy

Question 37

According to the ethical computer use policy,users should be ______________ of the rules and,by agreeing to use the system on that basis,_______________ to abide by the rules.

A) informed; collaborate
B) consent; informed
C) informed; consent
D) None of these

Question 38

Which of the following is part of the acceptable use policy stipulations?

A) Not using the service as part of violating any law.
B) Not attempting to break the security of any computer network or user.
C) Not posting commercial messages to groups without prior permission.
D) All of these.

Question 39

Which of the following is a classic example of unintentional information reuse?

A) Phone number
B) Social Security number
C) Address
D) Driver's license number

Question 40

What is one of the major problems with email?

A) Intellectual property
B) Nonrepudiation
C) User's expectation of privacy
D) All of these

Question 41

Epolicies are policies and procedures that address information management along with the ethical use of computers and Internet usage in the ___________ environment.

Question 42

_________ is a contractual stipulation to ensure that ebusiness participants do not deny their online actions.

Question 43

The _________ of information act allows any person to examine government records unless it would cause an invasion of privacy.

Question 44

Key logger or key trapper software is a __________ that when installed on a computer,records every keystroke and mouse click.

Question 45

Ethical computer use policy contains general principles to guide computer user behavior.

Question 46

The _________ Act restricts what information the federal government can collect.

Question 47

Confidentiality is the right to be left alone when you want to be,to have control over your own personal possessions,and not to be observed without your consent.

Question 48

A(n)___________ privacy policy contains general principles regarding information privacy.

Question 49

Employee monitoring policies explicitly state how,when,and where the company monitors its employees.

Question 50

_________ is unsolicited email.

Question 51

The __________ communications privacy Act allows the reading of communications by a firm and says that employees have no right to privacy when using their companies' computers.

Question 52

_____________ is the legal protection afforded an expression of an idea,such as a song,book,or video game.

Question 53

A(n)____________ computer use policy contains general principles to guide computer user behavior.

Question 54

A(n)__________ use policy contains general principles to guide the proper use of the Internet.

Question 55

A(n)__________ use policy is a policy that a user must agree to follow in order to be provided access to a network or to the Internet.

Question 56

Workplace MIS monitoring tracks people's activities by such measures as number of keystrokes,error rate,and number of transactions processed.

Question 57

A(n)____________ privacy policy details the extent to which email messages may be read by others.

Question 58

____________ are the principles and standards that guide our behavior toward other people.

Question 59

Workplace MIS _________ is tracking people's activities by such measures as number of keystrokes,error rate,and number of transactions processed.

Question 60

The ___________ bill prohibits the use of video rental information on customers for any purpose other than that of marketing goods and services directly to the customer.

Question 61

Summarize the common Internet monitoring technologies and explain the importance of an employee monitoring policy.

Question 62

Describe the important ethical concepts steaming from information technology.

Question 63

__________ is software that comes hidden in free downloadable software and tracks online movements,mines the information stored on a computer,or uses a computer's CPU and storage for some task the user know nothing about.

Question 64

_______________ is software to generate ads that installs itself on a computer when a person downloads some other program from the Internet.

Question 65

Explain the statement "information has no ethics."

Question 66

Identify the differences between an ethical computer use policy and an acceptable computer use policy.

Question 67

________________ key logger is a hardware device that captures keystrokes on their journey from the keyboard to the motherboard.

Question 68

Describe the relationship between an email privacy policy and the Internet use policy.