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WorksheetsImpacts of Computing
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 10mins
Select the variables that affect the digital divide.
Infrastructure (location)
Education
Cost
Gender
Service provider
What is the name for programming code that is available to anyone to use or modify?
Licensed software
Open-source software
Compiled software
Open access software
(a) create computing innovations.
True or False: Computing innovations can reflect bias that the programmers bring with them.
True
False
(a) is the practice of obtaining input or information from many people via the internet.
Which of the following is an example of a phishing attack?
Loading malicious software onto a user’s computer in order to secretly gain access to sensitive information
Gaining remote access to a user’s computer in order to steal user IDs and passwords
Using fraudulent emails in order to trick a user into voluntarily providing sensitive information
Flooding a user’s computer with e-mail requests in order to cause the computer to crash
Which of the following best exemplifies the use of multi factor authentication to protect an online banking system?
After entering a password for an online bank account, a user must also enter a code that is sent to the user’s phone via text message.
When a user resets a password for an online bank account, the user is required to enter the new password twice.
When multiple people have a shared online bank account, they are each required to have their own unique username and password.
An online bank requires users to change their account passwords multiple times per year without using the same password twice.
Which of the following is considered an unethical use of computer resources?
Responses
Purchasing a game from an app store and downloading it directly to a mobile device
Downloading freeware or shareware onto your home computer
Purchasing a single-user copy of photo editing software and installing it on all the computers in a computer lab
Searching online for an electronic version of a school textbook
Which of the following best explains how devices and information can be susceptible to unauthorized access if weak passwords are used?
Unauthorized individuals can deny service to a computing system by overwhelming the system with login attempts.
Unauthorized individuals can use data mining and other techniques to guess a user’s passwords.
Unauthorized individuals can exploit vulnerabilities in encryption algorithms to determine a user’s password from their encryption key.
Unauthorized individuals can exploit vulnerabilities in compression algorithms to determine a user’s password from their decompressed data.
The author of an e-book publishes the e-book using a no-rights-reserved Creative Commons license. Which of the following best explains the consequences of publishing the book with this type of license?
The contents of the e-book will be encrypted and can only be decrypted by authorized individuals.
Individuals will be legally prevented from sharing the e-book on a peer-to-peer network.
Individuals can freely distribute or use the contents of the e-book without needing to obtain additional permissions from the author.
Individuals will be legally prevented from using excerpts from the e-book in another published work.
(a) is the use of a program to record every keystroke made by the computer user in order to gain fraudulent access to passwords and other confidential info.
(a) is a wireless access point that gives unauthorized access to secure networks.
__________________________ is also know as asymmetric key encryption
Symmetric key encryption
key encryption
Public key encryption
________________________ uses two keys - one private and one public
Symmetric key encryption
Asymmetric key encryption
Which is true in Asymmetric Encryption
Both keys are the same
The public key encrypts the data and the private key decrypts the data.
The private key encrypts the data and the public key decrypts the data.
The private key encrypts and decrypts the data
