Final Practice (3rd set of questions)

You should schedule meetings with project stakeholders and management during the executing and controlling phases of a project to:

• inform them of progress and to handle issues they raise that may affect project scope.

• identify the problems or needs that the project must resolve or address.

• outline the requirements for each project task to ensure the project objectives are met.

• outline project tasks and assign resources to each.

Employers can monitor their employees' email messages sent to and from the company network because:

• it prevents employees from using network resources too frequently.

• this activity minimizes the amount of spam employees receive.

• regular monitoring reduces the extent of infection by malware.

• all information carried by the company's communication system is company property.

In a business environment, in which situation would email be more appropriate for communicating than texting?

• Sending a contract to your supervisor for her review and advice

• Sending a message to your supervisor informing her that you are running late for a meeting

• Sending a message to a co-worker about a special delivery at the front desk

• Sending a message to a friend about meeting at the ballgame later that evening

You have joined several Websites to keep in touch with current friends, reconnect with old friends, and find and contact people with interests similar to your own through people that you already know. What kind of Websites have you joined?

• Social networking Websites

• Semantic Websites

• Wiki sites

• Web feed services

You need to send a message to your manager providing all the details of a business proposal as quickly as possible. The idea you have discussed with her is critical to the business. The project is considered urgent and confidential. What would be the most appropriate way you could use an SMS (text) message in relation to this proposal?

• To send the proposal as an attachment to the text message.

• To send a brief summary of the proposal to your manager so that she has it available during a presentation.

• To provide a detailed outline of the proposal so that your manager can refer to it as she travels.

• To alert your manager that you have sent the proposal via email so your manager can view the proposal as soon as possible.

When you sign in to your instant messaging (IM) service, your online status is advertised (or published) to the people on your contacts list. What does this scenario represent?

• Presencing

• Convergence

• Mobile computing

• Unified communications (UC)

You have created a new software application and are ready to distribute it to other users. You have decided to license the software according to the GNU GPL version 3. What does this license allow you to do with your software?

• You can sell your software, but only if you make the software code available on a public server.

• You can sell your software, but only through a not-for-profit company.

• Your software is available for free use by other programmers, but anyone who alters it must pay you a fee and share royalties from the modified software with you.

• Your software is available for free use and alteration by other programmers, who must then make their modified versions freely available as well.

Your IT department enforces the use of 128-bit encryption on all company transmissions. Your department also protects the company encryption keys to ensure secure transmissions. Which choice lists an important reason for encrypting the company's network transmissions?

• Avoiding licenses that allow you to use a copyrighted software program

• Providing employees privacy to use company email for personal purposes

• Legally protecting your company's original product content

• Preventing data from being intercepted by malicious outsiders

Your company wants to simplify the customer support process for its distributors by enabling them to obtain company forms and reports online. You and your Web team are in charge of implementing this capability. Which Web-based system should you implement?

• Webinar

• Extranet

• Intranet

• FTP site

You are part of a development team that needs to adopt an integrated development environment tool to increase programmer productivity. The team narrowed the options down to two. One is open-source; the other will require an expensive site license. The tool you choose must be reliable, stable and well maintained. Which of the following could be a disadvantage for you to choose open-source, and thus a compelling enough reason to purchase the licensed software instead of using the open-source solution?

• Your developers will have ready access to the source code.

• The open-source solution is in the public domain.

• The code for the open-source solution can be viewed by a community of open-source developers.

• Maintenance of an open-source solution relies on developers who volunteer to work on the code.