1. Computing, Culture, and Society Online Quiz Questions

True or false: A computing system should be evaluated as both a technical system and a social system.

Which policy best addresses digital equity rather than merely expanding Internet availability?

What is the technical term for the unreadable form produced when plaintext is transformed by encryption?

True or false: A technology can be beneficial in one context and harmful in another.

Which approach best supports responsible evaluation of an algorithm used to make consequential decisions?

Select all of the following that the material identifies as dimensions of the digital divide.

A health system allows only authorized clinicians to view a patient's records. Which cybersecurity goal is being addressed?

Select all of the rights and values that the material says should be considered when evaluating a computing innovation.

Which scenario is an example of a supply-chain attack?

A city proposes using facial recognition throughout public spaces to improve public safety. Evaluate this proposal using the material's framework for social and ethical impacts. Identify important stakeholders, potential benefits and harms, relevant rights and values, questions about data and algorithms, and safeguards or accountability mechanisms that should be required before and during deployment.

True or false: A crowdsourced dataset can be assumed to represent the whole affected population simply because many people contributed to it.

Which statement correctly describes asymmetric encryption?

A city considers using facial recognition to help locate missing people but also proposes using the same system for continuous mass surveillance. Which evaluation best applies the material's central principle?

True or false: Encryption by itself guarantees that information will remain secure, even if an attacker steals the encryption key or compromises the device holding the data.

A student lives in an area with reliable broadband but cannot participate in online classes because the household cannot afford a suitable computer or repair costs. Which digital-divide dimension is most directly illustrated?

True or false: NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 includes the functions Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover.

How many functions organize risk management in NIST's Cybersecurity Framework 2.0?

What term describes obtaining services, ideas, data, or content by requesting voluntary contributions from a group, often through an online community?

Which practices support a responsible process for evaluating possible bias in an AI system? Select all that apply.

According to the material's 2023 United States figure, what percentage of people lived in households without an Internet connection? Enter the percentage as a number.

A delivery platform uses an algorithm to assign shifts, evaluate workers, and determine access to future jobs. Which concern from the material is most directly relevant to this practice?

Which digital-divide dimension asks whether reliable broadband or cellular service exists in a person's location?

A community has reliable broadband, but many residents lack the skills needed to evaluate information, protect their accounts, or use online services for work and health care. Which aspect of the digital divide is most directly illustrated?

A company trains a hiring system on past résumés from a period when it hired mostly men for technical positions. The system later ranks candidates in ways that disadvantage women, even though gender is excluded as an input. Which type of bias is most directly involved?

An attacker changes employee payroll records while leaving the system accessible to authorized users. Which cybersecurity goal has been violated most directly?

A team needs to encrypt and decrypt files using one shared secret key. Which encryption method matches this requirement?

A few online platforms make it easier for many small businesses to reach customers, but those same platforms control access to data and charge changing fees. Which conclusion best fits the material's analysis of computing and the economy?