MIS CH4 test bank Questions and
Answers Grade A+ 2023
1) Advances in data storage have made routine violation of individual privacy more difficult. - -FALSE
-2) The last step in analyzing an ethical issue should be to identify the stakeholders - people who have a
vested interest in the outcome of the decision. - -FALSE
-3) Professionals take on special rights and obligations because of their special claims to knowledge,
wisdom, and respect. - -TRUE
-4) Privacy is the right to be left alone when you want to be, without surveillance or interference from
other individuals or organizations. - -TRUE
-5) Even in today's legal climate, there is little incentive for firms to cooperate with prosecutors
investigating financial crimes at their firm. - -FALSE
-6) Spyware is software that comes hidden in downloaded applications and can track your online
movements. - -TRUE
-7) Most Internet businesses do very little to protect the privacy of their customers. - -TRUE
-8) The rate of global piracy is approximately 20%. - -FALSE
-9) Trade secret law does not protect the actual ideas in a work product. - -FALSE
-10) Copyright is the legal protection afforded intellectual property, such as a song, book, or video game.
- -TRUE
-11) The Copyright Office began registering software programs in the 1990s. - -FALSE
-12) The drawback to copyright protection is that the underlying ideas behind the work are not protected,
only their reproduction in a product. - -TRUE
-13) According to the courts, the creation of software, unique concepts, general functional features, and
even colors are protectable by copyright law. - -FALSE
-14) The key concepts in patent law are originality, novelty, and value. - -FALSE
-15) Despite the passage of several laws defining and addressing computer crime, accessing a computer
system without authorization is not yet a federal crime. - -FALSE
-16) Any unsolicited e-mail is legally considered spam. - -FALSE
-17) The European Parliament has passed a ban on unsolicited commercial messaging. - -TRUE
, -18) The most common type of computer-related RSI is CTS. - -TRUE
-19) Technostress is a computer-related malady whose symptoms include fatigue. - -TRUE
-20) Most American and European privacy law is based on a set of five principles called COPPA. - -
FALSE
-21) Which of the following best describes how new information systems result in legal gray areas?
A) They work with networked, electronic data, which are more difficult to control than information stored
manually.
B) They result in new situations that are not covered by old laws.
C) They are implemented by technicians rather than managers.
D) They are created from sets of logical and technological rules rather than social or organizational
mores. - -B
-22) The introduction of new information technology has a:
A) dampening effect on the discourse of business ethics.
B) ripple effect, raising new ethical, social, and political issues.
C) beneficial effect for society as a whole, while raising dilemmas for consumers.
D) waterfall effect in raising ever more complex ethical issues. - -B
-23) In the information age, the obligations that individuals and organizations have concerning rights to
intellectual property fall within the moral dimension of:
A) property rights and obligations.
B) system quality.
C) accountability and control.
D) information rights and obligations. - -A
-24) In the information age, the obligations that individuals and organizations have regarding the
preservation of existing values and institutions fall within the moral dimension of:
A) family and home.
B) property rights and obligations.
C) system quality.
D) quality of life. - -D
-25) All of the following are current key technology trends raising ethical issues except:
A) data storage improvements.
B) data analysis advancements.
C) increase in multimedia quality.
D) increase in use of mobile devices. - -C
-26) The use of computers to combine data from multiple sources and create electronic dossiers of
detailed information on individuals is called:
A) profiling.
B) phishing.
C) spamming.
D) targeting. - -A
-27) Which of the five moral dimensions of the information age do the central business activities of
ChoicePoint raise?
Answers Grade A+ 2023
1) Advances in data storage have made routine violation of individual privacy more difficult. - -FALSE
-2) The last step in analyzing an ethical issue should be to identify the stakeholders - people who have a
vested interest in the outcome of the decision. - -FALSE
-3) Professionals take on special rights and obligations because of their special claims to knowledge,
wisdom, and respect. - -TRUE
-4) Privacy is the right to be left alone when you want to be, without surveillance or interference from
other individuals or organizations. - -TRUE
-5) Even in today's legal climate, there is little incentive for firms to cooperate with prosecutors
investigating financial crimes at their firm. - -FALSE
-6) Spyware is software that comes hidden in downloaded applications and can track your online
movements. - -TRUE
-7) Most Internet businesses do very little to protect the privacy of their customers. - -TRUE
-8) The rate of global piracy is approximately 20%. - -FALSE
-9) Trade secret law does not protect the actual ideas in a work product. - -FALSE
-10) Copyright is the legal protection afforded intellectual property, such as a song, book, or video game.
- -TRUE
-11) The Copyright Office began registering software programs in the 1990s. - -FALSE
-12) The drawback to copyright protection is that the underlying ideas behind the work are not protected,
only their reproduction in a product. - -TRUE
-13) According to the courts, the creation of software, unique concepts, general functional features, and
even colors are protectable by copyright law. - -FALSE
-14) The key concepts in patent law are originality, novelty, and value. - -FALSE
-15) Despite the passage of several laws defining and addressing computer crime, accessing a computer
system without authorization is not yet a federal crime. - -FALSE
-16) Any unsolicited e-mail is legally considered spam. - -FALSE
-17) The European Parliament has passed a ban on unsolicited commercial messaging. - -TRUE
, -18) The most common type of computer-related RSI is CTS. - -TRUE
-19) Technostress is a computer-related malady whose symptoms include fatigue. - -TRUE
-20) Most American and European privacy law is based on a set of five principles called COPPA. - -
FALSE
-21) Which of the following best describes how new information systems result in legal gray areas?
A) They work with networked, electronic data, which are more difficult to control than information stored
manually.
B) They result in new situations that are not covered by old laws.
C) They are implemented by technicians rather than managers.
D) They are created from sets of logical and technological rules rather than social or organizational
mores. - -B
-22) The introduction of new information technology has a:
A) dampening effect on the discourse of business ethics.
B) ripple effect, raising new ethical, social, and political issues.
C) beneficial effect for society as a whole, while raising dilemmas for consumers.
D) waterfall effect in raising ever more complex ethical issues. - -B
-23) In the information age, the obligations that individuals and organizations have concerning rights to
intellectual property fall within the moral dimension of:
A) property rights and obligations.
B) system quality.
C) accountability and control.
D) information rights and obligations. - -A
-24) In the information age, the obligations that individuals and organizations have regarding the
preservation of existing values and institutions fall within the moral dimension of:
A) family and home.
B) property rights and obligations.
C) system quality.
D) quality of life. - -D
-25) All of the following are current key technology trends raising ethical issues except:
A) data storage improvements.
B) data analysis advancements.
C) increase in multimedia quality.
D) increase in use of mobile devices. - -C
-26) The use of computers to combine data from multiple sources and create electronic dossiers of
detailed information on individuals is called:
A) profiling.
B) phishing.
C) spamming.
D) targeting. - -A
-27) Which of the five moral dimensions of the information age do the central business activities of
ChoicePoint raise?
