BECE ICT past questions – Ethics of Using ICT

Which of the following is not a way to connect with your audience when speaking to a group?

What is copyright?

Which of the following kinds of software can you download legally and ethically from the internet for free?

Shareware means ………………..……………

Public domain

A student went to Acme art company online and copied a picture of some art for sale, without permission. This action would be considered ………………………….

Copying material word for word and claiming that it is yours is called

Which of the following situations would be considered ethical?

If you see a picture on the internet you want to use, you should make sure that it is

If you copy materials that is copyrighted, the worst thing that could happen to you is

This protects someone’s work from being copied.

In order to avoid plagiarism, always ………….………………

This cannot be copyrighted.

My friend bought a CD at the music store and let me borrow it so that I could copy my favorite song. Since it has already been paid for, it is perfectly legal for me to make one copy for myself, as long as I don’t share it with anyone else and give the CD /file back to them.

Because of the ease of the internet, I can print, copy, and distribute material from the internet and I am not violating the copyright law.

When you copy a song from the internet using a file sharing software service, you can remain anonymous and no one can find you.

You are protected by law when you create something.

You just read a great line from Shakespeare and you think it would make a great start for a song. Now you need to get permission to use the story from the copyright owner.

As a student if you check out a book at the library, is it okay to copy just small portion of the book for educational reasons without the author’s permission?

Violating copyright laws can be ruled as criminal in nature. If you get caught you may have to go to jail.

You wrote something and you want to send it to a writing contest. How would you copyright it?

Copyright is intended to protect the author’s right to control his/her work.

For a work to be protected under copyright, it must …………………………….

A work of an author/song writer who died last year is now automatically in the public domain (can be copied freely).

If a work doesn’t have a copyright notice, it is not copyrighted and therefore okay to take and use.

Which of the following statement is not correct? Some purposes of copyright law are to…………………….…..

If you own an artist’s painting (famous or not), you now own the copyright to the painting and can make copies of it.

If you are sent a picture music/game/etc from the author, you own the copyright.

The ethical issue that relates to the responsibility of those who collect data to ensure that data is correct is……………..

Software that was written with malicious intent to cause annoyance or damage is a (an) ……………………………..

In which of these sectors is computers wrongly used?

………………………… is a term used to describe a wide range of programs that secretly record and report an individual’s activities on the internet?

The ethical issue that concerns the collection and use of data about individual is ……………………………

The largest category of computer criminals is ………….…………………..

…………………………. is/are concerned with protective information, hardware and software.

It fills a computer system with self-replicating information.

Encoding information so that only authorized users read or use it.

Which of the following is associated with computer disease?

What is Netiquette?

The only data that a computer can understand is 0 and 1

It is a program in the cyberspace and intercepts messages containing specific text?

What are new facts entered into the computer to be processed, which consists of text, numbers, sounds, and images?

It is a software that is created to intentionally destroy data.

When someone is connected to computer communication system such as internet, it is termed as …………………………

An operating system such as windows 2000 professional, windows XP, and windows 7 which are designed by Microsoft are called …………………….

They are virtual diaries created by individuals and stored on the internet.

The process of applying standard codes of behaviour or common courtesy, when using the internet is called…………….

Which of the following is not an advantage of using the internet?

A mode of communication which does not require all parties involved in the communication to be present and available at the same time is termed as …………..…………….

A state-granted right to protect a form of intellectual property such as patent right, copyright, etc is termed as……………..

A direct communication, where all parties involved in the communication are present at the same time is termed as ……………………………

Computer virus can spread through the following means except …………………..…………..

All the following are signs of virus infection on the computer except ……………….……………

Computers can be protected from virus infections by………………..……………….

Virus infection can cause all the following except ……………..………….

A virus that copies itself repeatedly onto the computer memory or onto a disk drive until no more space is left thereby causing the computer to crash is known as…………………

A computer program that interferes with a computer’s hardware or operating system with the intention of causing a lot of problems on a computer for the user is called…………..

Which of the following types of virus as destroy the instructions required for booting the computer?

A set of instructions that specifies the operations to be performed by the computer and the sequences in which they are to be performed is termed as………………….

A program used to detect the presence of a virus and sometime destroy them is termed as ……………..……………..

The type that affects both files and the instructions required for booting the computer is known as ……………………………..

Which of the following type of virus affects the files?

All the following are ways of preventing virus infection except ……………….……………….

All the following is or are application software except …………………………

I. spreadsheet

II.word processing

III.windows 7

IV.MS access

A set of well defined principles, values or codes observed in the field of ICT is termed as……………….

Any event or action that can cause a loss or damage to computer equipment, software, data information, or processing capability is termed as ……………..…………………

A branch of law that gives authors the exclusive right to duplicate, share out, execute or exhibit creative work is known as ……………..……………….

All the following are computer threats except ………………….………………

All the following can cause computer threats except ……………………………

Which of the following is an ethical issue in computing?

To ensure copyright protection, a work must be both ………………………. and ………………………….

All the following are examples of copyright issues except ……………………………

For a work to be original to qualify for copyright protection ……………..

Which of the following consequences is one likely to encounter when she/he violates copyright law?

When the author wants to give everyone the software for free, it is known as ………………..……………..