ITM 100- EXAM REPORTED
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
Behavioural Targeting - Answer-allows businesses and organizations to more precisely
target desired demographics
Responsibly - Answer-accepting the potential costs, duties and obligations for your
decisions
Accountability - Answer-Mechanisms for identifying responsible parties
Liability - Answer-permits individuals to recover damages done to them
Informed consent - Answer-Consent given with knowledge of all the facts needed to
make a rational decision
Safe Harbour - Answer-A private, self-regulating policy and enforcement mechanism
that meets the objectives of government regulators and legislation but does not involve
government regulation or enforcement
Opt-out - Answer-allows collection of personal information unless the consumer
requests other wise
Opt-in - Answer-the consumer must take action to approve collection and use of
personal information
Ethic - Answer-principals of right and wrong that can be used by individuals acting as
free moral agents to make choices to guide their behaviour
Information rights - Answer-the rights that individuals and organizations have with
respect to information that pertains to themselves
Profiling - Answer-the use of computers to combine data from multiple sources and
create electronic dossiers of detailed information on individual
Due process - Answer-A process in which laws are well-known and understand there is
an ability to appeal to higher authorities to ensure that laws are appealed
Privacy - Answer-the claim of individual to be left alone free from surveillance or
interference from other individuals, organizations or the state
, Intellectual property - Answer-intangible property created by individuals or corporations
that is subject it protections under trade secret copyright and patent law
IT infrastructure - Answer-The shared technology resources that provide the platform for
the firm's specific information system applications
Moore's law ad micro processing power - Answer--The power of microprocessors
doubles every 18 months
-Computing power doubles every 18 months
-The price of computing falls by half every 18 months
The law of mass digital Storage - Answer-- The amount of digital information is roughly
doubling every year
- The cost of storage if falling at an exponential rate of 100 percent per year
Metcalfe's Law and Network Economics - Answer-The value of a network grown
exponentially as a function of the number of network members
Bit - Answer-smallest unit of data; binary digit (0,1)
Byte - Answer-group of bits that represent a single character
Field - Answer-group of works or complete number
Record - Answer-group related fields
File - Answer-group of records of same type
Data base - Answer-group of related files
Entity - Answer-person, place, thing, event about which information is maintained
Attribute - Answer-description of a particular entity
Key field - Answer-identifier field use of retrieve, update, sort a record
Data redundancy - Answer-The presence of duplicate data in multiple data files so that
the same data are stored in more than one place or location
Data inconsistency - Answer-the same attribute may have different values
Program-Data Dependence - Answer-the coupling of data stored in files and specific
programs required to update and maintain those files such that changes in programs
required changes to the data
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
Behavioural Targeting - Answer-allows businesses and organizations to more precisely
target desired demographics
Responsibly - Answer-accepting the potential costs, duties and obligations for your
decisions
Accountability - Answer-Mechanisms for identifying responsible parties
Liability - Answer-permits individuals to recover damages done to them
Informed consent - Answer-Consent given with knowledge of all the facts needed to
make a rational decision
Safe Harbour - Answer-A private, self-regulating policy and enforcement mechanism
that meets the objectives of government regulators and legislation but does not involve
government regulation or enforcement
Opt-out - Answer-allows collection of personal information unless the consumer
requests other wise
Opt-in - Answer-the consumer must take action to approve collection and use of
personal information
Ethic - Answer-principals of right and wrong that can be used by individuals acting as
free moral agents to make choices to guide their behaviour
Information rights - Answer-the rights that individuals and organizations have with
respect to information that pertains to themselves
Profiling - Answer-the use of computers to combine data from multiple sources and
create electronic dossiers of detailed information on individual
Due process - Answer-A process in which laws are well-known and understand there is
an ability to appeal to higher authorities to ensure that laws are appealed
Privacy - Answer-the claim of individual to be left alone free from surveillance or
interference from other individuals, organizations or the state
, Intellectual property - Answer-intangible property created by individuals or corporations
that is subject it protections under trade secret copyright and patent law
IT infrastructure - Answer-The shared technology resources that provide the platform for
the firm's specific information system applications
Moore's law ad micro processing power - Answer--The power of microprocessors
doubles every 18 months
-Computing power doubles every 18 months
-The price of computing falls by half every 18 months
The law of mass digital Storage - Answer-- The amount of digital information is roughly
doubling every year
- The cost of storage if falling at an exponential rate of 100 percent per year
Metcalfe's Law and Network Economics - Answer-The value of a network grown
exponentially as a function of the number of network members
Bit - Answer-smallest unit of data; binary digit (0,1)
Byte - Answer-group of bits that represent a single character
Field - Answer-group of works or complete number
Record - Answer-group related fields
File - Answer-group of records of same type
Data base - Answer-group of related files
Entity - Answer-person, place, thing, event about which information is maintained
Attribute - Answer-description of a particular entity
Key field - Answer-identifier field use of retrieve, update, sort a record
Data redundancy - Answer-The presence of duplicate data in multiple data files so that
the same data are stored in more than one place or location
Data inconsistency - Answer-the same attribute may have different values
Program-Data Dependence - Answer-the coupling of data stored in files and specific
programs required to update and maintain those files such that changes in programs
required changes to the data
