11 — Computer Science in Society Online Quiz Questions

A school database first verifies a user's identity and then checks whether that user may edit student grades. Which security practice determines whether the user may edit the grades?

A fitness application encrypts users' location histories and restricts access to authorized employees, but it collects precise locations continuously even when that information is unnecessary for the stated feature. Which conclusion is best supported?

A web application makes every function usable with a keyboard, including visible focus indicators for the current control. Which WCAG principle does this most directly address?

A medical scheduling service must remain dependable when users submit malformed requests or an external network service becomes unavailable. Which practices from the material would directly support this goal? Select all that apply.

A company is evaluating a model that recommends applicants for interviews. Which actions are appropriate for investigating and reducing potential bias? Select all that apply.

True or false: If a software system passes all of its tests, the tests prove that the system has no defects.

True or false: Removing a protected characteristic from a model's input data is always enough to eliminate biased outcomes.

Which single CIA triad property requires that only authorized people or systems can view a patient's medical record?

What named privacy practice requires an organization to consider privacy during requirements and architecture instead of adding it only after deployment?

A city plans to deploy an automated system that prioritizes applications for a public service. Explain how a responsible computing team should evaluate the system before and after deployment. Address the purpose and stakeholders, security, privacy, correctness, reliability, fairness, accessibility, accountability, and long-term effects, and connect these concerns to concrete engineering or governance activities.

Which statement best distinguishes software reliability from correctness?

An online banking system prevents unauthorized people from viewing account information, but an attacker changes customers’ account balances. Which security property has been violated most directly?

A company securely stores precise location data for every customer, even though its service only needs a general region. Which change most directly applies the privacy principle of data minimization?

A payment application produces the correct result for ordinary transactions but crashes whenever its network connection is briefly interrupted. Which quality is most directly deficient?

A hiring model was trained on historical decisions from a workplace that recruited mostly from one demographic group. Which evaluation practice would best help identify whether the model produces unequal harms?

True or false: If organizational leaders pressure a team to proceed, an individual computing professional no longer has a responsibility to raise concerns about foreseeable harm.

A user has successfully proved their identity, and the system now determines whether that user may edit a particular record. What security term names this permission decision?

How many principles organize the WCAG 2.2 accessibility guidelines in the material? Enter the number as an integer.