Deck 7: Ethics

Question 1

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 the above
D) None of the above

Answer 1

B

Question 2

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

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

Answer 2

A

Question 3

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

Answer 3

A

Question 4

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) None of the above

Question 5

Which of the following is not considered an ePolicy?

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

Question 6

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 7

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

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

Question 8

What is the ideal type of decisions for people in an organization to make?

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

Question 9

Which act restricts what information the federal government can collect?

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

Question 10

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 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 the above.

Question 12

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 13

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

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

Question 14

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 15

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) Privacy act
B) Bork Bill
C) Freedom of Information Act
D) Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act

Question 16

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

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

Question 17

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

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

Question 18

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 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 act strengthened criminal laws against identity theft?

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

Question 21

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 the above

Question 22

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 the above

Question 23

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 24

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 25

Which of the following describes information technology 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 the above

Question 26

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 27

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 28

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 29

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

A) Information privacy policy
B) Acceptable use policy
C) Anti-spam policy
D) Ethical computer use policy
It is common practice to sign an AUP before being granted a network ID.

Question 30

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 31

What is a mail bomb?

A) Sending a massive amount of email to a specific person or system resulting in filling up the recipient's disk space
B) A contractual stipulation to ensure that ebusiness participants do not deny their online actions
C) Sending a few emails to a specific person or system resulting in filling up the recipient's disk space
D) A contractual stipulation to ensure that ebusiness participants deny their online actions

Question 32

Which of the following represents the classic example of unintentional information reuse?

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

Question 33

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 34

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 35

What is one of the major problems with email?

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

Question 36

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 the above

Question 37

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 the above

Question 38

What is one of the guidelines an organization can follow when creating an information privacy policy?

A) Adoption and implementation of an anti-spam policy
B) Notice and disclosure
C) Choice and quality
D) None of the above

Question 39

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 the above

Question 40

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 41

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 42

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

Question 43

_________ implies that contact will be made with only the people who had agreed to receive promotions and marketing materials.

Question 44

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

Question 45

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 46

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 47

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 48

Opt-in implies that the customers will only be contacted if they agreed to receive promotions and marketing material.

Question 49

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

Question 50

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

Question 51

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

Question 52

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 53

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

Question 54

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

Question 55

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

Question 56

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

Question 57

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

Question 58

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

Question 59

ePolicies are policies and procedures that address the ethical use of computers and Internet usage in the ___________ environment.

Question 60

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

Question 61

__________ 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 62

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

Question 63

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

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

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

Question 66

Explain the statement "information has no ethics."

Question 67

Describe the important ethical concepts steaming from information technology.

Question 68

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

Question 69

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

Question 70

_________ is unsolicited email.

Question 71

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