Computer Science Chapter 11 – Flashcards
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When communicating via email, it is important to remember that you aren't there in person, so you should explain yourself more completely.
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True
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It is impossible to convey emotion in an email.
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False
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One message covering multiple topics is better than multiple messages, each with a single topic.
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False
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Including the question with the reply is a courtesy; it provides the context for your answer.
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True
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Email backlogs should be answered in the order they were received.
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True
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The majority of participants in crowdsourcing are typically motivated by large monetary rewards for themselves.
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False
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A well-conceived password should be easy to remember and difficult to break.
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True
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A password should never be written down.
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False
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When choosing a security question that will be used to challenge your identity in the event of a forgotten password, the security question should have an answer that has not been publically disclosed.
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True
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With stringent laws against spam in many places, and spammers being prosecuted, spam is no longer a common problem.
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False
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The use of shareware implies the obligation to pay for it.
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True
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For your work to have copyright protection, the copyright symbol, ©, must be listed on your work.
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False
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Determining if email is spam is really just a program's best guess, and some mistakes are inevitable.
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True
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Web pages cannot be copyrighted.
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False
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It is possible with the help of Internet service providers(ISPs) and companies like Microsoft to figure out who is online.
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True
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The word netiquette only applies to etiquette for email.
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False
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You should never forward an email without the sender's permission.
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True
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When a new password is created for your computer system, it is scrambled or encrypted and then stored in that form.
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True
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Most email in the United States is a private conversation between only the sender and the recipient.
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True
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If your software is "acting" strange or your computer is "behaving" unusually, these could be indicators of a software problem such as disk fragmentation or a computer virus infection.
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True
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Any email that appears to give you something for nothing can safely be deleted. The world just doesn't work that way.
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True
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One-way ciphers are reversible; in other words, they can be decoded.
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False
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Information is placed in the public domain, meaning that it is free for anyone to use, in any form.
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True
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It is legal to give commercial software to your friends, but not to sell it.
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False
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When software is "acting strange," you should:
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Save your work with a new file name, exit, and restart
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All of the following are difficult to convey in an email message except:
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Emphasis
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Most email is:
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Private
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Before forwarding email, you should:
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Get the sender's permission
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The textbook author advocates:
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Using three different passwords
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Passwords:
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Are encrypted and are compared using the encryption, not "clear text"
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In what way is the online world we live in today different from the past?
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All of the above
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Which of the following is probably legal?
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You buy one copy of a piece of software, but install it on your laptop and desktop computer.
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An example of a good password is a:
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A word with letters, numbers, and symbols
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The 419 scam has many, many variations, but they all require:
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Secrecy, urgency and your money
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Which of the following will help protect you from phishing?
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Only give information online when you have initiated the transaction by toing to the company site. Pay attention to the domain name of the company. Open attachments only when you know who sent them and why.
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Before sending or posting very emotional content by email or online:
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Sleep on it
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Which of the following is not an example of crowdsourcing?
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Google
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Most login protocols:
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Allow several but not unlimited login attempts
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A good minimum length for a password is how many character?
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8
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When choosing a password, a good choice for helping you remember it is to:
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Choose a topic of interest and then modify a phrase from that topic to obscure it
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The origin of the word "spam" as used to describe junk mail is believed to be:
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A Monty Python skit
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You receive an email from your bank informing you that they are performing an audit and have found possible problems with your account. They ask you to log in to resolve the issue. This is an example of:
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Phishing
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Generally speaking, a software license gives you:
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Use of the software
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Companies that make products available as open source software:
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Are promoting wide distribution of the software. Are vendors like Microsoft and Adobe.
Keep the source code private (providing only binary)
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Information that you did not create, but can treat as your own, is said to be:
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In the public domain
