Exam 3 Flashcards
An assessment of what is right or wrong can be determined by considering ______, which can be understood as the benefit or harm that will come from a particular decision.
the consequences
Which of the following is an example of a physiological innovation?
Haptic interfaces
______ is a technique to gain personal information for the purpose of identity theft, usually by means of fraudulent e-mail.
Phishing
A ______ is a small file that contains information about a person and his/her Web activities, which a Web site one visits places on their computer.
cookie
______ focuses on online collaboration, users as both creators and modifiers of content, and other engaging Web-based services.
Web 2.0
Involves using the cloud for a vast majority of your computing needs.
IaaS
Which of the following refers to a system which not only captures spoken words but also distinguishes word groupings to form sentences?
Automatic speech recognition
which of the following is true of personal software-as-a-service (personal Saas)?
It involves paying for personal productivity software on a pay-per-use basis.
Which of the following refers to an environment in which business and organizations come to customers vis technology with information, services, and product offerings based on their profiles?
Push technology
Kelly, who works at an advertising firm, regularly receives calls from friends and family during office hours. Though she knows that it is not right on her part to spend a lot of time answering personal calls, she feel that the management will not take any strict action against her because she always meets project deadlines and provide quality work. Which of the following is Kelly considering while making her decision to continue taking calls?
Likelihood effect
Which of the following is true of an ethical dilemma?
It occurs when one’s responsibilities seem to lead in opposite directions
______ refer(s) to devices on networks that connect computers to each other.
Routers
Which of the following is an example of augmented reality?
A sports broadcast of golf tournament uses digital overlays to indicate the yardage of the golf course
Which of the following is an e-commerce business model in which a consumer communicates through a business on the internet, and directly provides product specification to a factory that produces the product and ships it directly to the consumer?
F2b2C
Which of the following is a process of continuously measuring system results and comparing those results to baseline values that a system seeks to attain?
Benchmarking
Which of the following refers to the capability of two or more computing components to share information and other resources, even if they are made by different manufacturers?
Interoperability
Among three levels of an individual’s ethical structure, the ______ level involves ethical violations that one would consider very serious, such as embezzling funds or selling company records to a competitor?
Innermost
According to the SOA philosophy, which of the following is the most important organizational resource?
Information
______ refers to the extent to which one identifies with the person or persons who will receive the benefit or suffer the harm associated with a particular decision.
Relatedness
Which of the following is often associated with bandwidth such as transmission speeds expressed as kilobits per second and megabits per second?
Throughput
______ is a delivery model for software which provides that ability to customize data entry forms, screens, reports, and the like, and access to software development tools to alter the way in which the software works by adding new modules (services) and/or making modifications to existing modules.
PaaS
______ refers to intangibile creative work that is embodied in physical form.
Intellectual property
The marketing department of Ebony, a new hotel chain, needs to determine the number of people who visited the company’s Web site over the last two months. Which of the following metrics should the department use?
Total hits
Which of the following is true of an organization with service oriented architecture philosophy?
Adapts quickly to new advances in technology
Which of the following refers to a technology with a three-dimensional computer simulation in which a person actively and physically participates?
Virtual reality
iTunes, Apple’s online music store, allows users across the globe to download music, video games, audiobooks, podcasts, and other forms of digital content, all at the push of a button. Effectively, iTunes allowed users to bypass traditional channels such as music stores and other retailers that would normally distribute such products. This is an example of ______.
disintermediation
______ is the right to be left alone when one wants to be, to have control over one’s own personal possessions, and not to be observed without one’s consent.
Privacy
______ is the unauthorized use, duplication, distribution, or sale of copyrighted software.
Pirated software
Touch screen cell phones have ______. This is evidenced by the vibrations that the user senses when he or she presses a button on the screen.
biometrics
A client/server infrastructure offloads the application programs and information from the ______.
Server
Which of the following is a standard for transmitting information in the form of short range radio waves over distances of up to 30 feet?
Bluetooth
Which of the following is part of the outermost level of an individual’s ethical structure?
Actions that most people would not consider unacceptable or unethical
______ is the use of physiological characteristics - such as your fingerprint, the blood vessels in the iris of you eye, the sound of your voice, and even your breath - to provide identification
Biometrics
Which of the following is true of a client/server infrastructure?
It centralizes processing and storage for all information on a server.
Katherine Wood, a critically acclaimed feminist poet, recently published her second anthology of poetry. Which of the following will protect her work from being used by other people without her permission?
Copyright law
______ can be defined as the principles and standards that guide our behavior toward other people.
Ethics
Which of the following is a discipline that seeks to control matter at the atomic and sub-atomic levels for the purpose of building devices on the same small scale?
Nanotechnology
Which of the following is true of a 2-tier infrastructure?
It has an application tier which is contained on one or both to the two tiers
GenTech, a software company, is situated in Tokyo, Japan. Given that the country is prone to several earthquakes, GenTech is keen to build up plan which will guide the company on how to recover should disaster strike. Which of the following will help the company in this regard?
Business continuity plan
An online publication regularly check the articles turned in by its writers for plagiarism. To do this, it utilizes an online plagiarism checker called CopyTheft. All the user needs to do is upload the files to the software and within 20 seconds, the system generates a report which highlights the various instances of plagiarized work if any. This is an example of which of the following infrastructure-centric metrics?
Response time
Which of the following is a fundamental underlying infrastructure for any IT environment?
Network
Which of the following best defines an infrastructure which allocates the information and processing power of IT systems via a network?
Distributed infrastructure
Which of the following allows you to send voice communications over the internet and avoid the toll charges that you would normally receive from your long distance carrier?
VoIp
A ______ floods a server or network with so many requests for service that it slows down or crashes.
denial of service attack
A tiered infrastructure is also known as ______.
layer infrastructure
The most common applications of virtual reality are found in the ______ industry.
entertainment
Certain cell phones provide users with the option of voice dialing. All that the user has to do is give a command stating the name of the person they would like to call and the cell phone automatically dials the person’s number. Which of the following physiological innovations do such cell phones utilize?
ASR
Which of the following is undertaken by a feature analysis system?
Eliminates background noises and converts digital speech signals into syllables.
Missing question
Key logger
Missing question
PowerPoint
