CNIT 422 PRACTICE TEST QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS
How has technology influenced crime and society? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1. lessens
social interaction
2. lowers Inhibitions
3. accessibility to other like-minded people
4. decreases boundaries
5. increased anonymity
Information Age - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅marked by the INCREASE production.
transmission, and consumption of and reliance on information
-> referred to as "digital age/revolution"
-> began toward the end of the 20th
-> current stage of society
techniways - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the ways that behavior patterns change in response
to, or as a consequence of, technological innovation
computer crime - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅crime in which the perpetrator uses special
knowledge about computer technology to commit the offense
computer-related crime - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅any criminal act in which a computer
is involved, even peripherally
cybercrime - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅criminal activity committed through or facilitated
by the internet
ex: malware, distribution of child pornography
, cyberdeviance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅any activity facilitated by technology that may
or may not be illegal, but is not socially accepted by the majority of groups in a local area
cybercrime vs traditional crime - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅- no physical presence to
perpetuate crime
- crime easily committed intentionally
- lack of extensive tools to commit crime
- less tools = less evidence
- lack of legal consensus
digital natives - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅brought into a world that was already digital,
and spend a large amount of time in digital environments
immigrants - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅born before creation of the internet and digital
technologies
computer as a tool - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅when the computer itself is used as an
instrument to commit a crime
- copyright infringement
- embezzlement
- phishing
- cyber-harassment
computer as the target - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅when the computer or network is the
aim of the attack
- attempts to break into a computer
- steals info from the computer
- bombards/launches attack from outside
- damage -> computer
ANSWERS
How has technology influenced crime and society? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1. lessens
social interaction
2. lowers Inhibitions
3. accessibility to other like-minded people
4. decreases boundaries
5. increased anonymity
Information Age - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅marked by the INCREASE production.
transmission, and consumption of and reliance on information
-> referred to as "digital age/revolution"
-> began toward the end of the 20th
-> current stage of society
techniways - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the ways that behavior patterns change in response
to, or as a consequence of, technological innovation
computer crime - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅crime in which the perpetrator uses special
knowledge about computer technology to commit the offense
computer-related crime - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅any criminal act in which a computer
is involved, even peripherally
cybercrime - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅criminal activity committed through or facilitated
by the internet
ex: malware, distribution of child pornography
, cyberdeviance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅any activity facilitated by technology that may
or may not be illegal, but is not socially accepted by the majority of groups in a local area
cybercrime vs traditional crime - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅- no physical presence to
perpetuate crime
- crime easily committed intentionally
- lack of extensive tools to commit crime
- less tools = less evidence
- lack of legal consensus
digital natives - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅brought into a world that was already digital,
and spend a large amount of time in digital environments
immigrants - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅born before creation of the internet and digital
technologies
computer as a tool - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅when the computer itself is used as an
instrument to commit a crime
- copyright infringement
- embezzlement
- phishing
- cyber-harassment
computer as the target - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅when the computer or network is the
aim of the attack
- attempts to break into a computer
- steals info from the computer
- bombards/launches attack from outside
- damage -> computer
