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WorksheetsChapter 9 - Ethics & Information Technology
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 13mins
According to an American Management Association/ePolicy Institute survey on electronic monitoring and surveillance, ___________ of the respondents reported that they had fired workers due to misusing the Internet.
15%
20%
30%
40%
According to an American Management Association/ePolicy Institute survey on electronic monitoring and surveillance, ___________ of the respondents reported that they had fired workers due to misusing their corporate email accounts.
25%
28%
30%
32%
According to an American Management Association/ePolicy Institute survey on electronic monitoring and surveillance, ___________ of the respondents reported that they had fired workers due to misusing corporate telephone.
6%
8%
10%
12%
What is not a workers’ rights policy area for IT activities?
Role modeling through visible action
Rewards and discipline
Communicating about ethics and values
Accuracy
What is not a question that managers ask before storing potentially private information?
Who has the legal ownership of the information?
What is the nature of the data?
Who should have access to this information?
Who is responsible for screening potential users
Which is not one of the questions that employees and managers need to address when considering e-mail messages?
Is any e-mail actually private?
How much is e-mail saving the company?
Can e-mail be used against employee?
How far can you go without being unethical when it comes to others, email?
Which of the following is not a factor when understanding the potential ethical issues related to information technology?
Privacy of the stakeholders
Control over the information flow
Firm’s level of profitability
Accuracy of the Information
Obtaining and using someone else’s personal data in a fraudulent or deceptive way is called:
Market manipulation schemes
Auction and retail schemes
Credit card schemes
Identity theft and fraud
Offering high-value items to attract consumers by inducing them to send money but then deliver nothing or a lower-value item than promised are called:
Auction and retails schemes
Credit card schemes
Business opportunity schemes
Market manipulation schemes
Advertising business opportunities allowing individuals to earn thousands of dollars a month but requiring the individual to pay an upfront fee, are called
Auction and retail schemes
Business opportunity or Work at home schemes
Identity theft and fraud
Market manipulation schemes
Spreading false and fraudulent information to cause increase in thinly traded stocks then selling off the stocks before the price falls back to its usual low level to cause a price decrease is
Auction and retails scheme
Business opportunity scheme
Market manipulation scheme
Identity theft and fraud
What is not a cost of using e-mail?
Access to resources
Offensive communication
Frivolous use
Information overload
What is not a benefit of using e-mail?
Documentation
Monitoring
Efficiency
Offensive communications
Which is not one of the consumer protection tactics identified by the Federal Trade Commission?
Watch for catchwords and phrases!
Never give your password to anyone!
Read spam before deleting!
Pay attention!
What is not one of the key ethical issues facing big data?
Loss of anonymity
Honesty/truthfulness
Self-protection of people
Data patters versus reality
Which is not a government-based set of regulations relating to information technology?
The Kyoto Treaty
The European Union’s Electronic Commerce Directive
The World Intellectual Property Organization
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Which is not one of the key ethical issue, identified with internet usage?
Security transactions
Product promotion
Illegal activity like hacking and fraud
False advertising
Which of the following is not a type of critical analysis managers should do to assist in their decision-making processes:
Utilitarian Goal-Based Analysis
Right-Based Analysis
Stakeholders Analysis
Market-Based Analysis
Which of the following analysis helps managers determine a decision that will produce the greatest good to the greatest number of stakeholders:
Stakeholders Analysis
Right-Based Analysis
Utilitarian Goal-Based Analysis
Duty-Based Analysis
Which of the following analysis focuses on considering how potential decisions may affect the rights of different types of stakeholders:
Stakeholders Analysis
Right-Based Analysis
Utilitarian Goal-Based Analysis
Duty-Based Analysis
Which of the following analysis focuses on assessing the ethical duties of a manager:
Duty-Based Analysis
Stakeholders Analysis
Utilitarian Goal-Based Analysis
Right-Based Analysis
Which of the following acts allows employers to monitor e-mail messages sent through the computer systems, allowing for the transfer of data:
Sarbanes Oxley Act 2002
Electronic Communications Privacy Act 1986
The USA PATRIOT Act 2001
The European Union’s Rome II Directive
Which of the following acts allows employers to monitoring of business-related phone calls:
Sarbanes Oxley Act 2002
The USA PATRIOT Act 2001
Electronic Communications Privacy Act 1986
The European Union’s Rome II Directive
Use of email to try to mimic a legal, legitimate company to ‘fish’ for personal or financial information from individuals is called:
Phishing
Cyber Extortion
Spoofed or Hijacked Accounts
Auction Fraud
------ was an initiative by the FBI and other government agencies to help target and convict cybercriminals:
The USA PATRIOT Act 2001
Operation Web Snare
Operation Web Trap
None of the above
----- is a software that can be loaded onto a computer so the computer operations can be monitored by an outside party without the consent of the computer user
Spyware
Restoro
LifeLock
Malwarebytes
