MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS FINAL
EXAM. UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Question:
ethics
Answer:
a system of moral principles that human beings use to judge right & wrong & to
develop rules of conduct.
Question:
an ethical system that judges the morality of an action based on how well it
adheres to broadly accepted rules, regardless of the actions' actual
consequences.
Answer:
natural laws & rights
Question:
utilitarianism
Answer:
an ethical system that judges whether an act is right or wrong by considering the
consequences of the action, weighing its positive effects against its harmful ones.
Question:
intellectual property (IP)
Answer:
intangible assets such as music, written works, software, art, designs, movies,
creative ideas, discoveries, inventions, & other expressions of the human mind that
may be legally protected by means of copyrights or patents.
Question:
digital rights management (DRM)
Answer:
technologies that software developers, publishers, media companies, & other
intellectual property owners use to control access to their digital content.
Question:
proxy
Answer:
an intermediary server that receives & and analyzes requests from clients and then
directs them to their destinations; sometimes used to protect privacy.
Question:
information security
Answer:
, a term that encompasses the protection of an organization's information assets
against misuse, disclosure, unauthorized access, or destruction.
Question:
botnet
Answer:
a combination of the terms robot & network referring to a collection of computers
that have been compromised by malware & used to attack other computers.
Question:
an attack in which computers in a botnet are directed to flood a single website
server with rapid-fire page requests, causing it to slow down or crash.
Answer:
distributed denial of service (DDoS)
Question:
phishing
Answer:
an attempt to steal passwords or other sensitive information by persuading the
victim, often in an email, to enter the information into a fraudulent website that
masquerades as the authentic version.
Question:
risk matrix
Answer:
a matrix that lists an organization's vulnerabilities, with ratings that assess each one
in terms of likelihood & impact on business operations, reputation, & other areas.
Question:
a plan that an organization uses to categorize a security threat, determine the
cause, preserve any evidence, & also get the systems back online so the
organization can resume business.
Answer:
incidence response plan
Question:
multifactor authentication
Answer:
a combination of two or more authentications a user must pass to access an
information system, such as a fingerprint scan combined with a password.
Question:
encryption
Answer:
technique that scrambles data using mathematical formulas, so that it cannot be
read without applying the key to decrypt it.
Question:
EXAM. UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Question:
ethics
Answer:
a system of moral principles that human beings use to judge right & wrong & to
develop rules of conduct.
Question:
an ethical system that judges the morality of an action based on how well it
adheres to broadly accepted rules, regardless of the actions' actual
consequences.
Answer:
natural laws & rights
Question:
utilitarianism
Answer:
an ethical system that judges whether an act is right or wrong by considering the
consequences of the action, weighing its positive effects against its harmful ones.
Question:
intellectual property (IP)
Answer:
intangible assets such as music, written works, software, art, designs, movies,
creative ideas, discoveries, inventions, & other expressions of the human mind that
may be legally protected by means of copyrights or patents.
Question:
digital rights management (DRM)
Answer:
technologies that software developers, publishers, media companies, & other
intellectual property owners use to control access to their digital content.
Question:
proxy
Answer:
an intermediary server that receives & and analyzes requests from clients and then
directs them to their destinations; sometimes used to protect privacy.
Question:
information security
Answer:
, a term that encompasses the protection of an organization's information assets
against misuse, disclosure, unauthorized access, or destruction.
Question:
botnet
Answer:
a combination of the terms robot & network referring to a collection of computers
that have been compromised by malware & used to attack other computers.
Question:
an attack in which computers in a botnet are directed to flood a single website
server with rapid-fire page requests, causing it to slow down or crash.
Answer:
distributed denial of service (DDoS)
Question:
phishing
Answer:
an attempt to steal passwords or other sensitive information by persuading the
victim, often in an email, to enter the information into a fraudulent website that
masquerades as the authentic version.
Question:
risk matrix
Answer:
a matrix that lists an organization's vulnerabilities, with ratings that assess each one
in terms of likelihood & impact on business operations, reputation, & other areas.
Question:
a plan that an organization uses to categorize a security threat, determine the
cause, preserve any evidence, & also get the systems back online so the
organization can resume business.
Answer:
incidence response plan
Question:
multifactor authentication
Answer:
a combination of two or more authentications a user must pass to access an
information system, such as a fingerprint scan combined with a password.
Question:
encryption
Answer:
technique that scrambles data using mathematical formulas, so that it cannot be
read without applying the key to decrypt it.
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