CSE-332 Industry Ethics And Legal Issues MCQ's with Answers - Set VI

Q1. In K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India (2017), a nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court held that:

a) Privacy is not protected in India

b) The right to privacy is a fundamental right under the Constitution

c) Privacy applies only to paper records

d) Only companies have a right to privacy

Q2. A company buys one licensed copy of a design tool and installs it on 20 office computers. This form of piracy is called:

a) Spoofing

b) Counterfeiting

c) Softlifting

d) Phishing

Q3. Which of these statements about open source software is correct?

a) Open source software can never be used commercially

b) Open source software has no licence at all

c) Open source software comes with a licence that lets users view, modify and share the source code under stated conditions

d) Open source and freeware mean exactly the same thing

Q4. The GNU GPL is called a copyleft licence because:

a) It removes all copyright from the code

b) It can be used only by government bodies

c) It allows only left-handed programmers

d) Anyone who distributes a modified version must release it under the same licence

Q5. Shareware is software that:

a) Can be tried for free for a period or with limited features, after which the user is expected to pay

b) Has no copyright

c) Is always open source

d) Is pirated software shared online

Q6. A student copies a GitHub project, changes the variable names and submits it as his own capstone project. This is mainly an example of:

a) Plagiarism

b) Open source contribution

c) Fair dealing

d) Reverse engineering for research

Q7. A white hat hacker is someone who:

a) Writes viruses for fun

b) Hacks only government websites

c) Breaks into systems to steal data

d) Tests systems for weaknesses with the owner's permission and reports them

Q8. A hacker finds a flaw in a company website without permission, then tells the company about it and does not misuse it. This hacker is usually described as:

a) Script kiddie

b) White hat

c) Grey hat

d) Black hat

Q9. An attacker calls an employee pretending to be from the IT helpdesk and asks for her password to "fix an issue". This is an example of:

a) A denial of service attack

b) Brute force attack

c) Social engineering

d) SQL injection

Q10. Following an authorised employee through a secure door without swiping your own card is called:

a) Phishing

b) Tailgating

c) Spoofing

d) Pharming

Q11. The digital divide refers to:

a) The difference between analog and digital signals

b) Dividing a hard disk into partitions

c) The split between Windows and Linux users

d) The gap between people who have access to computers, the internet and digital skills and those who do not

Q12. An AI hiring tool trained on ten years of past hiring data starts ranking women lower for technical roles. The main ethical problem here is:

a) Low accuracy on images

b) High electricity use

c) Copyright infringement

d) Bias learned from historical data

Q13. The three basic goals of information security, often called the CIA triad, are:

a) Cost, Investment, Accounting

b) Coding, Implementation, Analysis

c) Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability

d) Control, Inspection, Audit

Q14. Which practice best respects user privacy when building an app?

a) Collecting only the data needed for a stated purpose and telling users clearly

b) Hiding the privacy policy

c) Collecting every possible piece of data in case it is useful later

d) Selling data without telling users

Q15. "Thou shalt not use a computer to harm other people" is the first of the Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics, written by the:

a) Supreme Court of India

b) Computer Ethics Institute

c) Indian Computer Emergency Response Team

d) World Health Organization