AP CSP Big Idea 5

Which of the following is NOT a determining factor in which side of the digital divide a citizen is on?

• Education

• Socioeconomic status

• Location

• Gender

Which of the following describes a human component of phishing?

• An unethical programmer develops a webpage to look identical to an e-commerce site asking for PII data.

• An unethical programmer develops a program to infect a computer to send emails to every person in the victim's email address list.

• An unethical programmer decides which site to impersonate based on current events.

• An unethical programmer sets up a system to collect PII data when an unsuspected victim enters the information in a fraudulent site.

The DIGITAL DIVIDE refers to differing access to computing devices and the internet based on socioeconomic, geographic, or demographic characteristics. Which of the following is affected negatively by the digital divide?

I. A student unable to access the internet to participate in a distance-learning model put in place by a school district to replace a face-to-face model used for a high school under quarantine.

II. A citizen keeping up on governmental policy announced on the online computing innovation Twitter.

III. A citizen looking for work but companies posting job vacancies online.

• I only

• II and III only

• I and III only

• I, II, and III

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.

A mobile application is used to display local traffic conditions. Which of the following features of the application best exemplifies the use of crowdsourcing?

• Users can save an address to be used at a later time.

• Users can turn on alerts to be notified about traffic accidents.

• Users can submit updates on local traffic conditions in real time.

• Users can use the application to avoid heavily congested areas.