WGU D673 CERTIFICATION SCRIPT 2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◍ USA PATRIOT Act.
Answer: An act passed 5 weeks after the terrorist attacks of September 11,
2001. It gave sweeping new powers both to domestic law enforcement and
U.S. international intelligence agencies, including increasing the ability of
law enforcement agencies to search telephone, email, medical, financial, and
other records.
◍ government license.
Answer: A government-issued permission to engage in an activity or to
operate a business.
◍ Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA).
Answer: An act drafted in the 1970s to bring uniformity to all the United
States in the area of trade secret law.
◍ right of privacy.
Answer: " the right to be left alone—the most comprehensive of rights, and
the right most valued by a free people."
◍ risk.
Answer: The potential of gaining or losing something of value. Risk can be
quantified by three elements: a risk event, the probability of the event
happening, and the impact (positive or negative) on the business outcome if
the risk does actually occur.
◍ anonymous expression.
Answer: The expression of opinions by people who do not reveal their
identity.
◍ corporate social responsibility (CSR).
, Answer: The concept that an organization should act ethically by taking
responsibility for the impact of its actions on its shareholders, consumers,
employees, community, environment, and suppliers.
◍ breach of care of duty.
Answer: Failure to act as a reasonable person would act.
◍ zombie.
Answer: A computer that is part of a botnet and that is controlled by a
hacker without the knowledge or consent of the owner.
◍ Bill of Rights.
Answer: The first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution that spell
out additional rights of individuals.
◍ Policies.
Answer: The guidelines and standards by which the organization MUST
abide.
◍ failure mode.
Answer: A description of how a product or process could fail to perform the
desired functions described by the customer.
◍ offshore outsourcing.
Answer: A form of outsourcing in which services are provided by an
organization whose employees are in a foreign country.
◍ industrial espionage.
Answer: The use of illegal means to obtain business information not
available to the general public.
◍ reasonable assurance.
Answer: A concept in computer security that recognizes that managers must
use their judgment to ensure that the cost of control does not exceed the
system's benefits or the risks involved.
◍ remote monitoring.
Answer: Also called home monitoring, it is the regular, ongoing, accurate
, measurement of an individual's vital signs (temperature, blood pressure,
heart rate, and breathing rate) and other health measures (e.g., glucose levels
for a diabetic) and the transmission of this data to a healthcare provider.
◍ fraud.
Answer: The crime of obtaining goods, services, or property through
deception or trickery.
◍ body of knowledge.
Answer: An agreed-upon sets of skills and abilities that all licensed
professionals must possess.
◍ contributory negligence.
Answer: When the plaintiffs' own actions contributed to their injuries.
◍ electronic health record (EHR).
Answer: A comprehensive view of the patient's complete medical history
designed to be shared with authorized providers and staff from more than
one organization.
◍ predictive coding.
Answer: A process that couples human guidance with computer-driven
concept searching in order to "train" document review software to recognize
relevant documents within a large collection of documents.
◍ résumé inflation.
Answer: Falsely claiming competence in a skill, usually because that skill is
in high demand.
◍ The marketing department of a financial services institution asks data
scientists to build a consumer profile based on transaction data. Although
company lawyers approve the request to explicitly signal customers with
potential gambling addiction problems, the data scientists refuse to build the
profiles.What describes this request?.
Answer: Unethical and legal
◍ live telemedicine.
, Answer: A form of telemedicine in which patients and healthcare providers
are present at different sites at the same time; often involves a
videoconference link between the two sites.
◍ annualized loss expectancy (ALE).
Answer: The estimated loss from a potential risk event over the course of a
year. The following equation is used to calculate the annual loss expectancy:
ARO × SLE = ALE. Where ARO is the annualized rate of occurrence, an
estimate of the probability that this event will occur over the course of a
year and SLE is the single loss expectancy, the estimated loss that would be
incurred if the event happens.
◍ quality assurance (QA).
Answer: Methods within the development process that are designed to
guarantee reliable operation of a product.
◍ zero-day exploit.
Answer: A cyberattack that takes place before the security community
and/or software developers become aware of and fix a security vulnerability.
◍ Processes.
Answer: a collection of steps designed to direct the most important tasks of
an organization
◍ patent.
Answer: A grant of a property right issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office to an inventor; permits its owner to exclude the public from making,
using, or selling a protected invention, and allows for legal action against
violators.
◍ labor productivity.
Answer: A measure of economic performance that compares the amount of
goods and services produced (output) with the number of labor hours used
in producing those goods and services.
◍ green computing.
Answer: Efforts directed toward the efficient design, manufacture,
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◍ USA PATRIOT Act.
Answer: An act passed 5 weeks after the terrorist attacks of September 11,
2001. It gave sweeping new powers both to domestic law enforcement and
U.S. international intelligence agencies, including increasing the ability of
law enforcement agencies to search telephone, email, medical, financial, and
other records.
◍ government license.
Answer: A government-issued permission to engage in an activity or to
operate a business.
◍ Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA).
Answer: An act drafted in the 1970s to bring uniformity to all the United
States in the area of trade secret law.
◍ right of privacy.
Answer: " the right to be left alone—the most comprehensive of rights, and
the right most valued by a free people."
◍ risk.
Answer: The potential of gaining or losing something of value. Risk can be
quantified by three elements: a risk event, the probability of the event
happening, and the impact (positive or negative) on the business outcome if
the risk does actually occur.
◍ anonymous expression.
Answer: The expression of opinions by people who do not reveal their
identity.
◍ corporate social responsibility (CSR).
, Answer: The concept that an organization should act ethically by taking
responsibility for the impact of its actions on its shareholders, consumers,
employees, community, environment, and suppliers.
◍ breach of care of duty.
Answer: Failure to act as a reasonable person would act.
◍ zombie.
Answer: A computer that is part of a botnet and that is controlled by a
hacker without the knowledge or consent of the owner.
◍ Bill of Rights.
Answer: The first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution that spell
out additional rights of individuals.
◍ Policies.
Answer: The guidelines and standards by which the organization MUST
abide.
◍ failure mode.
Answer: A description of how a product or process could fail to perform the
desired functions described by the customer.
◍ offshore outsourcing.
Answer: A form of outsourcing in which services are provided by an
organization whose employees are in a foreign country.
◍ industrial espionage.
Answer: The use of illegal means to obtain business information not
available to the general public.
◍ reasonable assurance.
Answer: A concept in computer security that recognizes that managers must
use their judgment to ensure that the cost of control does not exceed the
system's benefits or the risks involved.
◍ remote monitoring.
Answer: Also called home monitoring, it is the regular, ongoing, accurate
, measurement of an individual's vital signs (temperature, blood pressure,
heart rate, and breathing rate) and other health measures (e.g., glucose levels
for a diabetic) and the transmission of this data to a healthcare provider.
◍ fraud.
Answer: The crime of obtaining goods, services, or property through
deception or trickery.
◍ body of knowledge.
Answer: An agreed-upon sets of skills and abilities that all licensed
professionals must possess.
◍ contributory negligence.
Answer: When the plaintiffs' own actions contributed to their injuries.
◍ electronic health record (EHR).
Answer: A comprehensive view of the patient's complete medical history
designed to be shared with authorized providers and staff from more than
one organization.
◍ predictive coding.
Answer: A process that couples human guidance with computer-driven
concept searching in order to "train" document review software to recognize
relevant documents within a large collection of documents.
◍ résumé inflation.
Answer: Falsely claiming competence in a skill, usually because that skill is
in high demand.
◍ The marketing department of a financial services institution asks data
scientists to build a consumer profile based on transaction data. Although
company lawyers approve the request to explicitly signal customers with
potential gambling addiction problems, the data scientists refuse to build the
profiles.What describes this request?.
Answer: Unethical and legal
◍ live telemedicine.
, Answer: A form of telemedicine in which patients and healthcare providers
are present at different sites at the same time; often involves a
videoconference link between the two sites.
◍ annualized loss expectancy (ALE).
Answer: The estimated loss from a potential risk event over the course of a
year. The following equation is used to calculate the annual loss expectancy:
ARO × SLE = ALE. Where ARO is the annualized rate of occurrence, an
estimate of the probability that this event will occur over the course of a
year and SLE is the single loss expectancy, the estimated loss that would be
incurred if the event happens.
◍ quality assurance (QA).
Answer: Methods within the development process that are designed to
guarantee reliable operation of a product.
◍ zero-day exploit.
Answer: A cyberattack that takes place before the security community
and/or software developers become aware of and fix a security vulnerability.
◍ Processes.
Answer: a collection of steps designed to direct the most important tasks of
an organization
◍ patent.
Answer: A grant of a property right issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office to an inventor; permits its owner to exclude the public from making,
using, or selling a protected invention, and allows for legal action against
violators.
◍ labor productivity.
Answer: A measure of economic performance that compares the amount of
goods and services produced (output) with the number of labor hours used
in producing those goods and services.
◍ green computing.
Answer: Efforts directed toward the efficient design, manufacture,
