Deck 5: Trust, Safety, and Reliability

Question 1

____'s Law says that "adding people to a late project makes it later."

A) Moore
B) Brooks
C) Smith
D) Pascal

Answer 1

B

Question 2

A(n) ____ point number is similar to scientific notation, used in the natural sciences.

A) floating
B) real
C) integral
D) prime

Answer 2

A

Question 3

All of the following are examples of uses of safety-critical software EXCEPT the software associated with ____.

A) the braking system of automobiles
B) control processes within a nuclear power plant
C) patient monitoring software in an intensive care unit
D) timekeeping at a local elementary school

Answer 3

D

Question 4

It is possible to roughly calculate the number of executions required to exhaustively test a program; to make this calculation, you need to understand the concept of ____ points.

A) process
B) decision
C) control
D) categorical

Question 5

The standards of creating, testing, and maintaining ____ software are much stricter than other software, for obvious reasons.

A) contextual
B) encrypted
C) safety-critical
D) multiprocess

Question 6

High-quality software requires a high-quality ____ system for reporting, documenting, and correcting problems when they happen.

A) backup
B) simulation
C) maintenance
D) redundancy

Question 7

____ programs control some sort of machinery.

A) Critical
B) Control
C) Multiprocess
D) Mechanized

Question 8

A rootkit is a piece of software that masquerades as an innocent, and perhaps useful, program, but that is actually designed for malicious purpose.

Question 9

The methods employed by white hat hackers are the same as those employed by other hackers.

Question 10

The term hacker has always had a negative connotation.

Question 11

When it was first used, the term ____ was actually the cause of a hardware problem.

A) jot
B) bug
C) junk
D) spam

Question 12

The term multiprocess is used to refer to programs that may affect someone's safety if they fail to work properly.

Question 13

In the ____ phase of the software development process, programmers use the design to create code in an appropriate programming language.

A) requirements
B) ideation
C) language
D) implementation

Question 14

Malicious software is often the product of ____.

A) terrorism
B) war
C) for-profit crime
D) Any of the above

Question 15

____ can be used many times under a multitude of conditions, and are very valuable for control systems particularly.

A) Real-world analysis
B) Simulations
C) Auxiliaries
D) Clones

Question 16

The Stuxnet worm is clearly the most sophisticated worm to date.

Question 17

The most obvious approach to making sure your program has no bugs is to ____ it.

A) test
B) invert
C) proofred
D) compile

Question 18

For large projects, specialists called "____ engineers" interview clients to determine exactly what the system needs to do to best serve the clients.

A) command
B) notational
C) protocol
D) requirements

Question 19

In scientific notation, the number of ____ digits determines the position, while the number of digits in the scale factor determines the range of magnitudes.

A) floating
B) significant
C) indexed
D) encapsulated

Question 20

____ is still one of the most important ways in which we attempt to ensure software reliability.

A) Proofreading
B) Control sourcing
C) Backpedalling
D) Testing

Question 21

In a ____ scam, the recipient is instructed to click a Web link, which opens a Web page that requests an e-mail address and password.

A) phishing
B) tracking
C) pharming
D) spamming

Question 22

An anti-PowerPoint referendum may get on the ballot in the nation of ____________________.

Question 23

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.multiprocess
f.safety-critical
b.control
g.decision point
c.requirements
h.floating point
d.testing
i.malicious software
e.simulations
a difficult kind of program to test

Question 24

The exploitation of a previously unknown vulnerability, so-called ____________________ attacks, are commonly the most dangerous and unexpected.

Question 25

The people who write and deploy malware commonly called ____.

A) jackers
B) hackers
C) slackers
D) trackers

Question 26

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.multiprocess
f.safety-critical
b.control
g.decision point
c.requirements
h.floating point
d.testing
i.malicious software
e.simulations
is useful and important, but can never be foolproof

Question 27

____ language is a very low level language that is very similar to machine language.

A) Assembly
B) AECL
C) Natural
D) Recorded

Question 28

Most advances in the techniques or tools for software involve a gain of ____ to ____ percent in productivity or reliability

A) 5, 35
B) 1, 3
C) 50, 80
D) 7, 12

Question 29

____________________ programs are particularly difficult to test because they are commonly multiprocess programs with real-time constraints.

Question 30

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.multiprocess
f.safety-critical
b.control
g.decision point
c.requirements
h.floating point
d.testing
i.malicious software
e.simulations
thousands of these can exist in a program

Question 31

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.multiprocess
f.safety-critical
b.control
g.decision point
c.requirements
h.floating point
d.testing
i.malicious software
e.simulations
phase that determines what the software must do

Question 32

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.multiprocess
f.safety-critical
b.control
g.decision point
c.requirements
h.floating point
d.testing
i.malicious software
e.simulations
a number that is similar to scientific notation

Question 33

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.multiprocess
f.safety-critical
b.control
g.decision point
c.requirements
h.floating point
d.testing
i.malicious software
e.simulations
may not accurately represent the system under examination

Question 34

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.multiprocess
f.safety-critical
b.control
g.decision point
c.requirements
h.floating point
d.testing
i.malicious software
e.simulations
kind of programs that must coordinate with each other so that they do not get in each other's way

Question 35

The goal of a(n) ____________________ is to seek out vulnerabilities in a computer system so they can be removed before a malicious intruder discovers them and launches an attack.

Question 36

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.multiprocess
f.safety-critical
b.control
g.decision point
c.requirements
h.floating point
d.testing
i.malicious software
e.simulations
an example of this kind of software is an air traffic control system

Question 37

____________________ software is software that may affect someone's ability if it fails to work properly.

Question 38

The term "____" is sometimes used as a general term for malware, but that is not the way it is used by computer professionals.

A) Trojan horse
B) spam
C) virus
D) hacking

Question 39

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.multiprocess
f.safety-critical
b.control
g.decision point
c.requirements
h.floating point
d.testing
i.malicious software
e.simulations
is often the product of a full-blown vendetta or terrorism

Question 40

The philosophy of the modern ____ process is to prevent errors rather than discover them after they have occurred.

A) integration
B) differentiation
C) development
D) establishment

Question 41

What is a phishing scam? Provide an example.

Question 42

What is spyware?

Question 43

What are control programs? In terms of testing, how do they compare to ordinary programs?

Question 44

What is a zero day attack?

Question 45

What is a decision point?

Question 46

What does the misuse of the computer system involve? Provide an example.

Question 47

What is a rootkit?

Question 48

For what are floating point numbers useful in programming?

Question 49

What does the term real time mean?

Question 50

What is a worm?