AP CSP Unit 5 Questions Review

A bank customer receives an e-mail from a sender claiming to be a bank employee. The e-mail asks the customer to provide personal information and to call a phone number if he or she has any questions. The customer suspects the e-mail might be a phishing attempt. Which of the following responses is most likely to be a privacy risk for the bank customer?

• Calling the bank at its official phone number to ask whether the request for personal information is legitimate

• Calling the phone number given in the e-mail and providing the personal information over the phone

• Checking that the domain name of the sender’s e-mail address is associated with the bank

• Conducting aWeb search to see if other people have received similar requests for personal information

A city government is attempting to reduce the digital divide between groups with differing access to computing and the Internet. Which of the following activities is LEAST likely to be effective in this purpose?

• Holding basic computer classes at community centers

• Providing free wireless Internet connections at locations in low-income neighborhoods

• Putting all government forms on the city Web site

• Requiring that every city school has computers that meet a minimum hardware and software standard

Which of the following actions is most likely to help reduce the digital divide?

• Adding a requirement that all users of a popular social media site link their accounts with a phone number.

• Deploying satellites and other infrastructure to provide inexpensive Internet access to remote areas of Earth

• Digitizing millions of books from university libraries, making their full text available online

• Offering improved Internet connections to Internet users who are willing to pay a premium fee for more bandwidth

A state government is attempting to reduce the digital divide. Which of the following activities has the greatest potential to contribute to the digital divide rather than reducing it?

• Providing programs that focus on technology literacy at local libraries

• Requiring applicants for government jobs to apply using an online platform

• Working with technology companies to offer computing devices at discounted prices to individuals with reduced incomes

• Working with telecommunications companies to build network infrastructure in remote areas

Which of the following actions is most likely to raise legal or ethical concerns?

• An analyst writes a program that scans through a database of open-access scientific journals and creates a document with links to articles written on a particular topic.

• A computer scientist adds several features to an open-source software program that was designed by another individual.

• A musician creates a song using samples of a copyrighted work and then uses a Creative Commons license to publish the song.

• A public interest group alerts people to a scam that involves charging them for a program that is available for free under a Creative Commons license.

Which of the following activities is most likely to be successful as a citizen science project?

• Collecting pictures of plants from around the world that can be analyzed to look for regional differences in plant growth.

• Designing and building a robot to help with tasks in a medical laboratory.

• Sorting scientific records and removing duplicate entries in a database with a large number of entries.

• Using a simulation to predict the impact of a construction project on local animal populations.

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of using open-source software?

• Open-source software is generally free or lower in cost than commercially available software.

• The availability of source code makes it possible to customize open-source software to a user’s individual needs.

• The original developer of open-source software provides free or low-cost support for users installing and running the software.

• Unlike commercial software, which can become obsolete when the company that created it goes out of business, open-source software can be updated without the involvement of the original programmers.

Directions: For the question or incomplete statement below, two of the suggested answers are correct. For this question, you must select both correct choices to earn credit. No partial credit will be earned if only one correct choice is selected. Select the two that are best in each case.​

A free online encyclopedia contains articles that can be written and edited by any user. Which of the following are advantages the online encyclopedia has over a traditional paper-based encyclopedia?

Select two answers.

• The ability to easily check that the encyclopedia is free of copyrighted content

• The ability to ensure that encyclopedia content is the same every time it is accessed

• The ability to have a larger number of perspectives reflected in the encyclopedia content

• The ability to quickly update encyclopedia content as new information becomes available

  
  

Directions: The question or incomplete statement below is followed by four suggested answers or completions. Select the one that is best in each case.

A musician is creating a song using audio samples. Which of the following actions will minimize the risk of a copyright violation when creating sample-based music?

• Using samples found on popular music-streaming sites

• Using samples found on peer-to-peer networks

• Using samples from nondigital sound sources (vinyl records, tapes, etc.)

• Using samples published with a no-rights-reserved Creative Commons license

An author is considering publishing an e-book using a Creative Commons license. In which of the following situations would it be better for the author to use a Creative Commons license instead of a traditional copyright?

2. i. The author wants to make the e-book available as a free download.

3. ii. The author wants to prevent people from sharing copies of the e-book on peer-to-peer networks.

4. iii. The author wants to allow people permission to use and modify the e-book.

• I only

• II only

• I and III

• II and III