UPDATE 2025-2026
1. Computer-related mistakes include organizations operating unintegrated information
systems and acquiring redundant systems.
a. True
b. False - Answers False
2. Organizations continue to operate their businesses using integrated information systems that
lead to missed opportunities, increased costs, and lost sales.
a. True
b. False - Answers False
3. In order to protect the privacy of employees, email messages that have been erased from
hard disks cannot be retrieved.
a. True
b. False - Answers False
4. The use of e-mail among public officials might violate "open meeting" laws.
a. True
b. False - Answers True
5. Posting information to the Internet using anonymous email accounts or screen names makes
it impossible to identify a libeler.
a. True
b. False - Answers False
6. A job that requires sitting at a desk and using a computer for many hours a day qualifies as a
sedentary job.
a. True
b. False - Answers True
7. A job that requires sitting at a desk for many hours a day can significantly reduce the risk of
type 2 diabetes.
a. True
, b. False - Answers False
8. Two primary causes of computer-related health problems are a poorly designed work
environment and failure to take regular breaks to stretch the muscles and rest the eyes.
a. True
b. False - Answers True
9. If an activity is defined as legal then it is ethical.
a. True
b. False - Answers False
10. IS professionals believe that their field offers few opportunities for unethical behavior.
a. True
b. False - Answers False
11. One idea for reducing cyberloafing is to develop software that recognizes and categorizes
Internet sites into sites that employees can always visit, sometimes visit, and never visit.
a. True
b. False - Answers True
12. Training and incentives are the keys to the successful acceptance and implementation of
policies and procedures governing waste and error prevention.
a. True
b. False - Answers False
13. Deepak's team is in charge of conducting a review of their company's waste/mistake
prevention policies and procedures. Part of this review should also evaluate how upcoming
changes in information systems will affect business activities.
a. True
b. False - Answers True
14. Laws and regulations have thoroughly addressed concerns about privacy and data
management in private organizations and federal agencies.
a. True
b. False - Answers False