Sample Exam Questions

ETHICS and VIRUSES: Some Sample questions

1) What is a computer virus?

2) List some things to watch for that may indicate that your computer is infected with a virus?

3) What are the most common ways that computer viruses are spread?

4) What are the most effective means of protecting a computer from viruses?

5) Define software piracy?

6) Why is software piracy an important issue?

7) Who What are some possible penalties associated with software piracy?

8) What rights are provided to you when you purchase a single user software title? a multi-user license? a site license?

9) What are the differences between a single user license, a multi-machine license,  and a site license for software?

10) You are an employee of a large corporation. You boss has just given you a major project for a very important client. You have a particular program you use while at the office. Your spouse has been at you about spending so much time at the office, but you have a deadline. Is it OK for you to take the software from the office and load it onto your computer at home so you can meet your deadline?  and why?

11) What is a software copyright?

12) How do copyright laws apply in the instance of educational institutions and their students?

13) Who is covered by software copyright laws? 

14) When did they become a part of the Copyright ACT? 

15) Who usually owns the software copyright for a software product?

16) Is it possible to copyright the idea behind the implementation of a spreadsheet?

17) When you purchase software, what restrictions are usually placed on you?

18) Why would you need to update your Anti-virus program?

19) What is phishing?

20) How can you protect yourself from phishing?

21) How does phishing work?

22) You are a student at a large University.  Your Instructor has just given you a major project for a very important grade.   You have a particular program that you use at home that will be just perfect to use on this project.  And you have a deadline.  Is it OK for you to take the software from your home and load it onto a computer at school so that you can meet your project deadline? and why?

23) What is the estimated % of software that is used without authorization in violations of software copyright laws in the United States?

24) What is the important connection between a software license and ownership of a computer?

25) What is a Worm virus?

26) What is a Trojan Horse virus?

27) What is Spyware?

28) What does a Firewall do for your computer?

29) What does anti-virus software do for your computer?

Internet and the World Wide Web: Some Sample Questions

1) Is the Internet less than 10 years old?

2) Is the Internet accessed by millions of people?

3) Is the Internet maintained and administered by the Federal Government?

4) Web documents are written in _______?

5) Is it true that the Hypertext links in some Web documents may be shown in different colors depending on whether or not the links have been previously accessed?

6) Is it true that Hyperlinks in a Web document may access documents on different computers?

7) Is it true that Hyperlinks in a Web document may appear as underlined text?

8) What is a likely Web address of IBM's homepage?

9) Will different search engines return different results from the same query?

10) Will the same search engine return the same results from a query every time?

11) What is the best search engine? is there one  ?

12) What does a spider program do?

13) Which will return the most results from a search, a) "tiger" or "woods" b) "tiger woods" ?

14) Explain each part of the URL http://www.prenhall.com/grauer/win2000/index.html

15) What is the general rule regarding the use of information that was downloaded from the Internet?

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Internet and the World Wide Web Skills Test:  Some Sample Questions

Use the World Wide Web to answer the following:

Do you know the names of your elected Representatives, such as your U.S. Congressional Representative from your district; the two U.S. Senators from your state, the one State Representative from your district. 

Do you know the name of your Representative to your State's House of Representatives, or your State Senator from your district to your state's Senate?

Do you know the name of your State's Governor ?

List at least three bills that are currently under discussion in the U.S. Congress.

What is the current population of the United States?

What is the National Debt?

What is the National Debt per person?

What was the score and team of the most recent San Diego Padres Game?

What is the current temperature in New York City?

What is the latest Dow Jones industrials stock average?

What is the population of California?  of North Dakota?  of Oregon?

What is the minimum grade point average to apply as a freshman at UCSD?  at Oregon State?

What are the hours for the CSUSM Kellogg Library?

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Word Processing and Spreadsheet Skill Tests

Skills Tests require that you 1) create a document similar to the one given, 2) correct any errors found, 3) supply the correct reference footnote as appropriate, 4) fill in correct spreadsheet formulas as appropriate, 5) put ones' own name and ID and the exam date as requested, and 6) turn in the finished document to the test proctor.

Skills Test: Sample Word Document

Skills Test: Sample Excel Spreadsheet 1

Sample Excel-2

Study materials for the Word Processing and Spreadsheets Skills test may be found at the reserve desk of the Kellogg Library.  Ask for the Microsoft Office XP workbook.