Question 1

What is an act or object that poses a danger to assets?

Accepted Answer

Threat is an act or object that poses a danger to assets.

Question 2

What is a computer crime where a competitor or disgruntled employee increases a company's search advertising costs by repeatedly clicking on the advertiser's link?

Accepted Answer

Competitive click-fraud is a computer crime where a competitor or disgruntled employee increases a company's search advertising costs by repeatedly clicking on the advertiser's link.

Question 3

Users would agree to all of the following in a typical acceptable use policy except ________.

Accepted Answer

An typical acceptable use policy includes 1) not using the service as part of violating any law, 2) not attempting to break the security of any computer network or user, 3) not posting commercial messages to groups without prior permission, and 4) not performing any nonrepudiation.

Question 4

Which policy contains general principles regarding information privacy?

Accepted Answer

This is the definition of information privacy policy.

Question 5

What is the theft of a website's name that occurs when someone, posing as a site's administrator, changes the ownership of the domain name assigned to the website to another website owner?

Accepted Answer

Website name stealing is the theft of a website's name that occurs when someone, posing as a site's administrator, changes the ownership of the domain name assigned to the website to another website owner.

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

The social security number is the classic example of unintentional information reuse.

Question 7

What is it called when government attempts to control Internet traffic, thus preventing some material from being viewed by a country's citizens?

Accepted Answer

Internet censorship is government attempts to control Internet traffic, thus preventing some material from being viewed by a country's citizens.

Question 8

What is a general term for a set of standards governing the collection and use of personal data and addressing issues of privacy and accuracy?

Accepted Answer

Fair information practices is a general term for a set of standards governing the collection and use of personal data and addressing issues of privacy and accuracy.

Question 9

What is a threat?

Accepted Answer

Threat is an act or object that poses a danger to assets.

Question 10

Jackie is the head teller at ABC Bank and her responsibilities include overseeing and managing the tellers, resolving customer issues, and developing and implementing systems for an optimal and efficient team.She notices a steady increase in customer complaints and tracks back to find that the complaints started right around the time ABC Bank provided Internet access to all employees.Jackie watched the tellers closely and found that they were spending significant amounts of time playing Internet games and posting on Facebook.Which policy should the company implement to help eliminate this problem?

Accepted Answer

An Internet use policy contains general principles to guide the proper use of the Internet.

Question 11

What is cybervandalism?

Accepted Answer

Cybervandalism is the electronic defacing of an existing website.

Question 12

Which of the following clauses is typically contained in an acceptable use policy?

Accepted Answer

An acceptable use policy usually contains a nonrepudiation clause which is a contractual stipulation to ensure that ebusiness participants do not deny their online actions.

Question 13

What is click-fraud?

Accepted Answer

Click-fraud is the abuse of pay-per-click, pay-per-call, and pay-per-conversion revenue models by repeatedly clicking on a link to increase charges or costs for the advertiser.

Question 14

What is a problem that occurs when someone registers purposely misspelled variations of well-known domain names?

Accepted Answer

Typosquatting is a problem that occurs when someone registers purposely misspelled variations of well-known domain names.

Question 15

What is the electronic defacing of an existing website?

Accepted Answer

Cybervandalism is the electronic defacing of an existing website.

Question 16

What is competitive click-fraud?

Accepted Answer

Competitive click-fraud is a computer crime where a competitor or disgruntled employee increases a company's search advertising costs by repeatedly clicking on the advertiser's link.

Question 17

Which of the following terms refers to a contractual stipulation to ensure that ebusiness participants do not deny their online actions?

Accepted Answer

This is the definition of nonrepudiation.

Question 18

What is the abuse of pay-per-click, pay-per-call, and pay-per-conversion revenue models by repeatedly clicking on a link to increase charges or costs for the advertiser?

Accepted Answer

Click-fraud is the abuse of pay-per-click, pay-per-call, and pay-per-conversion revenue models by repeatedly clicking on a link to increase charges or costs for the advertiser.

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

Notice and disclosure is the second guideline for creating an information privacy policy.

Question 20

Different organizations and countries have their own terms for fair information practices.Which of the following is correct?

Accepted Answer

Different organizations and countries have their own terms for fair information practices.The United Kingdom terms it "Data Protection," and the European Union calls it "Personal Data Privacy"

Quiz 4: Ethics and Information Security: Mis Business Concerns: Module 2: Technical Foundations of MIS

What is an act or object that poses a danger to assets?

What is a computer crime where a competitor or disgruntled employee increases a company's search advertising costs by repeatedly clicking on the advertiser's link?

Users would agree to all of the following in a typical acceptable use policy except ________.

Which policy contains general principles regarding information privacy?

What is the theft of a website's name that occurs when someone, posing as a site's administrator, changes the ownership of the domain name assigned to the website to another website owner?

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

What is it called when government attempts to control Internet traffic, thus preventing some material from being viewed by a country's citizens?

What is a general term for a set of standards governing the collection and use of personal data and addressing issues of privacy and accuracy?

What is a threat?

What is cybervandalism?

Which of the following clauses is typically contained in an acceptable use policy?

What is click-fraud?

What is a problem that occurs when someone registers purposely misspelled variations of well-known domain names?

What is the electronic defacing of an existing website?

What is competitive click-fraud?

Which of the following terms refers to a contractual stipulation to ensure that ebusiness participants do not deny their online actions?

What is the abuse of pay-per-click, pay-per-call, and pay-per-conversion revenue models by repeatedly clicking on a link to increase charges or costs for the advertiser?

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

Different organizations and countries have their own terms for fair information practices.Which of the following is correct?