Deck 11: Social Implications of IT

Question 1

When communicating via email, it is important to remember that face-to-face conversations can convey unspoken meaning while this may not be true for written communication .

Answer 1

True

Question 2

It may be difficult to convey emotion in an email but emoticons can always express all human emotions adequately .

Answer 2

False

Question 3

It is better to write one email message that covers multiple topics than to write several messages, each covering one topic .

Answer 3

False

Question 4

When you reply to an email, it is best to include the context of the message you are replying to .

Question 5

Email backlogs should be answered in the order in which they were received .

Question 6

The majority of participants in crowdsourcing are motivated by large monetary rewards for themselves .

Question 7

A well-conceived password should be easy to remember and hard to guess .

Question 8

When choosing a security question that will be used to challenge your identity in the event of a forgotten password, the security question should have an answer that has not been publicly disclosed .

Question 9

With stringent laws against spam in so many places, spam is no longer a common problem .

Question 10

The use of shareware implies an obligation to pay for it .

Question 11

For your work to have copyright protection, the copyright symbol (©) must be listed on your work .

Question 12

A program that determines if an email is spam is always accurate .

Question 13

Web pages cannot be copyrighted .

Question 14

It is possible to figure out who is online, with the help of Internet Service Providers and companies like Microsoft .

Question 15

The word netiquette refers exclusively to email etiquette .

Question 16

When a new password is created for your computer system, it is encrypted and then stored in that form .

Question 17

Most email in the United States is a private conversation between the sender and the recipient .

Question 18

If your software is acting strange or your computer is behaving in a manner that seems unusual, you might have a computer virus .

Question 19

If your software is acting strange or your computer is behaving in a manner that seems unusual, this might indicate a software problem, such as disk fragmentation .

Question 20

One-way ciphers are reversible; they can be decoded .

Question 21

Information placed in the public domain is free for anyone to use in any form .

Question 22

It is legal to give commercial software to your friends but not to sell it .

Question 23

A password manager can create passwords that you don't have to remember .

Question 24

When you are working in a software program and it starts acting strange, you should

A) save your work with a new file name, exit, and restart
B) immediately shut down the computer
C) reinstall the software program
D) do nothing since minor glitches happen all the time

Question 25

Most email is

A) copyrighted
B) subject to censorship
C) easy to forward
D) private

Question 26

Before forwarding email, you should

A) include a disclaimer
B) notify the sender that you are forwarding it
C) get the sender's permission
D) All of these

Question 27

The textbook authors advocate

A) using a different password for every account
B) using three different passwords
C) changing passwords at least once a year
D) ignoring password policies of employers

Question 28

Which of the following is NOT difficult to convey in an email message?

A) emotion
B) sarcasm
C) ambiguity
D) emphasis

Question 29

Which of the following statements is TRUE about passwords?

A) They are encrypted and are compared using the encrypted version .
B) They are maintained in a list by the system administrator .
C) They must be changed every three months .
D) They can be viewed by a superuser .

Question 30

Which of the following is probably legal?

A) You and your friends pool your money to buy a computer game and then share it by making copies for each of you .
B) You buy one copy of a computer game and install it on your laptop and your desktop computer .
C) You buy one copy of a computer game and install it on your laptop, your brother's laptop, and your computer at work .
D) You buy a computer game and make copies for your friends .

Question 31

An example of a good password is

A) a word that includes symbols or numbers to represent some letters
B) the user's birthday
C) the user's pet's name
D) the user's nickname

Question 32

Before sending or posting emotional content by email or online

A) remember that, since email is private, your thoughts will be secure
B) send it to all the people you can think of who might be interested in your email
C) sleep on it
D) send it quickly, before you change your mind

Question 33

Which of the following is NOT an example of crowdsourcing?

A) Google
B) Foldit
C) Freerice
D) Be a Martian project

Question 34

Most login protocols

A) allow unlimited login attempts
B) shut off access after a single failed login attempt
C) allow several but not unlimited login attempts
D) None of these

Question 35

When choosing a password, a good way to help you remember it is to

A) choose something you're interested in and modify a phrase about that topic to obscure it
B) use the name of someone close to you
C) use an important date, such as your birthday
D) choose a random series of numbers and letters

Question 36

The origin of the word "spam"(used to describe junk email) is believed to be

A) the nickname of a small town in Russia
B) a shortened form of the phrase "spurious messages"
C) from a Monty Python skit
D) unknown

Question 37

You receive an email from your bank informing you that they are performing an audit and have found a problem with your account . They ask you to log in to help resolve the problem . This is an example of

A) a legitimate email
B) phishing
C) an advance-fee fraud
D) spam

Question 38

Generally speaking, a software license gives you

A) permission to resell the software
B) ownership of the software
C) use of the software
D) All of these

Question 39

Companies that make products available as open source software

A) are vendors like Microsoft and Adobe
B) will open the source code to a user for a fee
C) are promoting wide distribution of the software
D) are non-profit organizations

Question 40

Information that you did not create but can treat as your own is said to be

A) in the public domain
B) shareware
C) fair use
D) copyrighted

Question 41

Select all that apply . Which of the following can be considered a way the online world is different from usual offline interactions?

A) It is now impossible to contact friends who live in another state without using social media .
B) Families and relatives have less influence on our online behavior than on our offline interactions .
C) We can be anonymous on the Internet .
D) The range of interactions is much broader than it was when people lived in villages .

Question 42

Select all that apply . The 419 scam has many variations but they all require

A) that you will get a monetary reward for your help
B) that you contact a third person to join you in the interaction
C) that you keep the operation confidential
D) that the scammer needs money

Question 43

Select all that apply . Which of the following will help protect you from phishing?

A) Only go to websites from educational or government domains .
B) Open attachments only when you know who sent them and why .
C) Never open any attachment .
D) Only give information online when you have initiated the transaction by going to the company's website .

Question 44

Small character-based graphics used to display emotion in an electronic message are called ________ .

Question 45

Information that has been recoded to hide its meaning has been ________ .

Question 46

Civilized behavior in any of the social settings on the Internet is referred to as ________ .

Question 47

The content of an email should be briefly described in the ________ .

Question 48

Solving a problem or achieving a goal by combining the contributions of a large, unconstrained volunteer population is known as ________ .

Question 49

A(n) ________ is another term for a system administrator .

Question 50

A(n) ________ license allows a person to post his or her work on the Internet and allows others to copy and distribute it .

Question 51

Software that is available on the web and paid for using the honor system is known as ________ .

Question 52

A(n) ________ is an email screening software that checks pre-delivery for content typical of unsolicited commercial email .

Question 53

________ is the limited use of copyrighted material for educational or scholarly purposes .

Question 54

A tactic in which hackers use deception to fool people into giving out personal information is called ________ .

Question 55

Nasty email exchanges in which a few people fight but carbon copy a group of others are known as ________ .

Question 56

Creations of the human mind that have value to others are referred to as ________ .

Question 57

The point of a(n) ________is to limit computer or software access to only those who know the specific sequence of keyboard characters .

Question 58

Unsolicited commercial email (UCE) is popularly known as ________ .

Question 59

The Nigerian Widow scam is an example of ________ fraud .

Question 60

Many forms of intellectual property are legally protected by ________ .

Question 61

When a program contains code that is available to the public, this is known as ________ software .

Question 62

The following are top-level ________: . com, . gov, . edu, . mil, . int, . org, . net