WorksheetsITEC 101 quiz 2
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
A programmer designs a mobile app that tracks users’ locations without asking permission. Which ethical principle is being violated?
Accountability
Respect for Privacy
Transparency
Professional Competence
An IT employee notices a security flaw but decides not to report it to avoid blame. What ethical issue arises here?
Intellectual property misuse
Lack of accountability
Algorithmic bias
Violation of transparency
A hospital’s patient records were encrypted by ransomware, stopping all operations. From an ethical standpoint, what was the main failure?
Poor algorithm design
Weak cybersecurity implementation
Violation of intellectual property
Lack of automation
An AI hiring tool favors male applicants because of biased training data. What should an ethical IT professional do first?
Hide the issue to protect company image
Continue using the tool for consistency
Audit and retrain the model using fair data
Replace the tool with a manual process
A web developer uses a copyrighted image from another site without permission. Which consequence best applies?
The developer gains more followers
It promotes innovation in open access
It may result in legal penalties and ethical violations
It supports fair use automatically
A company plans to sell anonymized user data to advertisers. What ethical question must be asked first?
How much profit will it bring?
Does this follow the Do No Harm principle and user consent rules?
Can the data be used to improve ads?
How quickly can this be done?
A social media platform updates its privacy policy but hides the new terms deep in its settings. Which principle was ignored?
Transparency
Accountability
Professional Competence
Respect for Intellectual Property
A student downloads a cracked version of paid software to complete a project. What ethical concern applies here?
Data privacy
Intellectual property rights
Algorithmic fairness
Do No Harm
An IT consultant is pressured to release an unfinished system that may contain vulnerabilities. What should guide their decision?
Company profit goals
ACM and IEEE Codes of Ethics
Client satisfaction
Employee convenience
A machine-learning engineer ensures all model decisions can be explained and justified to users. This demonstrates which ethical principle?
Transparency
Accountability
Respect for Privacy
Professional Competence
A researcher manipulates test results to make their software appear more accurate. Which IEEE ethical guideline is violated?
Responsible design
Honest reporting of results
Conflict of interest disclosure
Respect for confidentiality
A company failed to update its firewall, leading to a massive data breach. Which consequence best illustrates the organizational implication of unethical behavior?
Employee stress
Regulatory penalties and loss of customer trust
Increased productivity
Positive publicity
Facial recognition software misidentifies minority users. What ethical step should developers take?
Ignore results and move on
Gather more diverse datasets to reduce bias
Disable all recognition features
Sue the software provider
A government IT agency designs a system that unfairly prioritizes certain applicants due to poor testing. Which ethical responsibility was ignored?
Respect for privacy
Accountability to the public
Transparency of data collection
Intellectual property rights
To promote ethical awareness, an organization trains employees to report unethical acts without fear of punishment. This practice best supports:
Algorithmic bias reduction
Culture of accountability and ethical leadership
Data encryption standards
Intellectual property sharing
A mechanical calculator for numerical tables.
Jacquard’s loom
Difference Engine
Analytical Engine
Turing Machine
What i the major development in the age of logic and theory?
Analytical Engine
Difference Engine
Punch card
Turing Machine
What year did the Intel introduced the first microprocessor.
1971
1972
1970
1973
His designs mirror modern computer architecture.
Charles Babbage
Ada Lovelace
Alan Turing
What years did we begin to have electronic digital computer?
1930S-1940S
1940s–1950s
1950S-1960S
Describes how the hardware details and how data moves inside the system.
Computer Architecture
Computer Organization
escribes the design, structure, and features visible to the programmer.
Computer Architecture
Computer Organization
Connects all internal components.
Motherboard
Power Supply Unit
System Bus
CPU
Fetches, decodes, and executes instructions.
Output unit
Memory storage
ALU
Control unit
Which is NOT one of the main features of the Von Neumann Architecture?
Single Memory Space for Both Data and Instructions
Sequential Execution of Instructions
Frequency of CPU Cycles
Use of Buses for Data Transfer
a communication highway that allows data and control signals to travel between the different parts of a computer.
CPU
Motherboard
System bus
ALU
Without __________ each component would need direct connections to every other component — which would be extremely complex and inefficient.
Mother board
System bus
ALU
Memory storage
This bus manage and coordinate the actions of all components.
Control bus
Address bus
Data bus
Refers to the number of cycles per second that the CPU can execute
Clock Speed
Instruction Set Efficiency
Data Transfer Rate
Pipelining and Parallelism
Technique that divides the CPU’s instruction execution process into stages.
Parallelism
Pipelining
Data rate
Clock speed
