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The first programmable general-purpose electronic digital computer was the

Mark I

ARPANET

Analytical engine

ENIAC

J Moor considers computers to be revolutionary due to

All of these

their ubiquity

their logical malleability

their invisibility factor

A. Guptill writes that proof-reading and rewriting a research paper can be deeply consequential

if you keep your approach and ideas simple.

if you rethink your ideas.

None of these.

if you correct your mechanical errors.

M. Alley states scientific/technical writing can be precise, clear, forthright, and concise provided you

None of these.

use the rules he provides.

use informal language to connect better with your readers.

do not write in first person.

The ACM leadership is balanced between academic-research and practitioner professionals.

True

False

Don Georgevich's 5 best interviewing tips include ask good questions and let them know you want the job.

True

False

Optimize your resume

Neither of these.

Both of these.

by using keywords from the job description.

to help you get past applicant tracking systems.

A profession's six traits include specialized knowledge and accountability.

True

False

The ACM and IEC are the two main professional societies in computing.

True

False

Three Vault body language tips are minimize fidgeting, perfect your handshake, and mirror your interviewer.

True

False

Don Georgevich's 5 things you should never say include

don't say you're a quick learner.

All of these.

don't say you don't know how.

don't talk bad about your job.

Moral justifications for intellectual property in Locke, Hegel, and Utilitarianism

BOTH Hegel's personality... and Utilitarianism posits...

Locke's labor desert theory posits that a person's creative expression is their property.

Hegel's personality theory posits that property is an expression of one's personality.

Utilitarianism posits that intellectual property protection promotes future innovation.

Claude Shannon was a scientist, mathematician, and engineer who

laid the foundation for the modern information age.

None of these.

Both of these.

contributed to all three fields.

Three Vault tips to get your interviewer to like you are go with the flow, be creative, and find commonalities.

True

False

Claude Shannon

founded digital circuit design theory.

designed a differential analyzer.

developed MARK series of computers with Howard Aiken at Harvard.

designed the analytic engine.

Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and associate of Charles Babbage

publicized Babbage's work on a Difference Engine.

wrote a Babbage engine properly provisioned is capable of algebraic notation.

All of these.

helped Babbage design an Analytic Engine.

Resumes and cover letters should be tailored to each specific job posting.

True

False

J Moor considers the ethical significance of the computer's invisibility factor

invisible complex calculation beyond human understanding.

biased programming values embedded in a computer program.

All of these.

secretly using computer operations to engage in unethical conduct.

A. Guptill writes that deliberate practice in writing will improve your craft of writing.

True

False

A. Guptill writes that a critical thinking student scholar

has a habit of mind to explore issues and ideas comprehensively.

All of these.

uses deliberate and painstaking slow thinking to formulate conclusions.

is an independently motivated scholar.

A cover letter

All of these.

expresses interest and qualifications for a position.

provides a personal but professional touch.

explains how you fit with the organization.

Grace Hopper, a mathematician and US Navy rear admiral

worked with Vannevar Bush on a differential analyzer at MIT.

worked with Howard Aiken on Mark I.

BOTH "worked with Aiken ..." and "proposed writing .. In human type language".

proposed writing computer programs in human type language.

Which action/behavior is not a good networking approach

Set goals.

Use a shotgun approach.

Be concise.

Follow up on connections.

The purpose of a resume is to

provide the employer with first impressions.

get an interview.

give a summary of your experience.

All of these.

Charles Babbage in the early 1800s designed engines

None of these.

One was a prototype of the modern computer.

One was fully produced.

M. Alley recommends a style that expresses the ideas of your engineering/scientific work

Effectively structure the document.

Balance precision with clarity.

All of these.

Have a wide variety of sentence openers.

When preparing a professional presentation you are advised to

use Power Point.

All of these.

know your audience.

don't put too many words on a slide.

In the 1960s the US Defense Department Advanced Research Projects Agency constructed a network known as

None of these.

ARPANET.

TCP/IP.

USENET.

According to A. Guptill, a good thesis is

arguable, yet positing reasons.

None of these.

non-obvious, but well-specified.

Both of these.

The practice of paying another company for business processes or services to reduce costs is known as

offshoring.

globalization.

outsourcing.

None of these.

Wages as a grouping of maladies in the US

US wealth gap soars to extremes.

All of these.

Household living expenses and debt continue to grow.

Wages adjusted for inflation have grown very little since 1970s.

A. Guptill considers four tiers of sources for research papers

Peer-reviewed academic publications provide well-researched descriptions of events or states.

Articles and books from credible non-academic sources have rigorous research and analysis.

Peer-reviewed academic publications have rigorous research and analysis.

None of these.

Remote interviewing should include

monitoring your body language.

memorizing your key strengths and weaknesses.

Both of these.

None of these.

MIT's Work of the Future=Multiple Choice Building Better Jobs recommends policies

Both of these.

Shaping and expansion of innovation by federal research funding and rebalancing of taxes on capital and labor.

Neither of these.

Private and public investment and innovation in skills and training.

A. Guptill writes that proof-reading and rewriting a research paper can be deeply consequential

if you correct your mechanical errors.

if you rethink your ideas.

if you keep your approach and ideas simple.

None of these.

MIT's Work of the Future=Multiple Choice Building Better Jobs argues that rising inequality and the great divergence is attributable to

economic law that creation of new work must equal or exceed elimination of old work.

inevitable consequence of technology, globalization, and market forces.

None of these.

paralleling of average productivity growth and median wage growth in US.

A 2021 article on Software Engineering Book of Knowledge describes 5 properties of software which differentiate software-intensive systems from other kinds of engineering artifacts

complexity of unique interacting parts.

None of these.

uniqueness due to its invisibility.

conformity to natural physical principles.

M. Alley states scientific/technical writing can be precise, clear, forthright, and concise provided you

do not write in first person.

use the rules he provides.

None of these.

use informal language to connect better with your readers.

The Craft for Scientific Writing recommends that you be

clear.

precise.

fluent.

BOTH precise and clear.

The MIT study reports on the palpable fear in the US that technological progress threatens the livelihoods of many, which leads to

Neither of these.

distrust of institutions.

political and regional divisions.

Both of these.

In a technical job interview, if you are asked to solve a problem

All of these.

Listen carefully to catch any hint the interviewer may provide you.

Describe how you want to tackle solving each part of the question.

It's OK to question your interviewer.

Vault suggests that to get an interviewer to like you

ask follow-up questions.

smile.

All of these.

repeat what you hear.

A healthy labor market in the US can lead to shared prosperity for most adults

with policies ensuring that work is a central, economically viable way to prosper.

Both of these.

None of these.

with new investments strengthening institutions that support the quality and accessibility of jobs.

When you receive an offer of employment

give your immediate decision whether accepting the job or not.

None of these.

reconsider what salary and benefits you have already negotiated.

consider your potential for growth in the company.

J Moor considers computers to be revolutionary due to

their invisibility factor.

All of these.

their ubiquity.

their logical malleability.

The gig economy

its workers receive hourly wages.

provides workers with steady jobs.

provides transactions directly between provider and consumer.

None of these.

Roughly half of major companies in the US sometimes monitor the email or voice mail of their employees on company systems

True

False

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act ECPA prohibits interception of email and reading stored email without a court order but makes an exception for

None of these.

business systems.

government agencies.

family and friends.

J Moor depicts computer ethics as an analysis of computer technology's nature and impact resulting in the formulation and justification of certain policies for ethical use of the technology. His stated concerns are

BOTH personal and social policies need to be addressed AND Is a computer program an expression....

A policy vacuum needs to be addressed rather than a conceptual vacuum.

Both personal and social policies need to be addressed.

Is a computer program an expression of an idea that is owned or a process that is owned?

A. Guptill writes that a critical thinking student scholar

uses deliberate fast thinking to formulate conclusions.

has a habit of mind to explore issues and ideas comprehensively.

BOTH independently motivated... AND has a habit of mind....

is an independently motivated scholar.

The ENIAC

BOTH used vacuum tubes... AND it was built at UPenn during WWII.

was built at UPenn during WWII.

was a binary-based computer.

used vacuum tube switches.

Lawrence Lessig writes about a New York IT student who tinkers with search engine technology

Google sues him for copyright infringement.

RIAA sues him for $15 million and he settles by giving them $15,000.

Sony sues him for illegal Fair Use.

None of these.

The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act CFAA

Regulates the cost liability in assessing computer system damage.

Expanded the USA PATRIOT Act.

Penalizes illegal access to computers.

None of these.

Rules or regulations at the US federal level

Are issued by agencies whose authority comes from Congressional statutes.

All of these.

Are developed and proposed by an agency through their rulemaking process.

Are published in the Federal Register as final rules.

Protecting intellectual property has time constraints in the US

General patents protect the author for 20 years.

General patents protect the inventor for 15 years.

None of these.

Trade secrets are protected for 15 years.

The 2020 stimulus package, the CARES Act, became a tax-break bonanza

By increasing tax deductions for companies with $25+ million revenue a year.

Probably because there is no real public interest lobby on these obscure tax provisions.

And added to tax cuts of Treasury Dept.'s regulating companies for a couple of years.

All of these.

The 2018 ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct are designed to inspire and guide the ethical conduct of all computing professionals. Its fundamental ethical principles are

BOTH the code is intended... and The process should be accountable ...

The code provides an algorithmic process to solve ethical problems.

The code is intended to solve ethical problems through ethical decision-making.

The process should be accountable and transparent to all stakeholders.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau CFPB could be described as

None of these.

David fighting Goliath.

A regulator under the protection of Congress.

A bureau that is an enemy of the general population.

The 2018 ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct states that a computing professional should

Honor confidentiality.

Be fair and take action not to discriminate.

All of these.

Contribute to society and to human well-being.

An ethical decision-making process for computing professionals

Depicts individual difference traits as determinative for morally responsible action.

All of these.

Has five steps which logically precede human action in ethical matters.

Teaches ethical reasoning by using problems in which a person is personally involved.

Surveillance capitalism, as defined by Shoshana Zuboff

Converts our private human experience into behavioral data.

Analyzes our behaviors to determine our values.

Is a market transfer system that monetizes our predictions.

None of these.

In 2017 Ben Cassidy had a post in the US Department of the Interior

He was a prime example of revolving door between public sector/private sector jobs.

Federal ethics rules' big loophole allows lobbying of federal agencies on rulemaking.

Both of these.

Neither of these.

Corporate surveillance through third-party tracking

All of these.

Needs an identifier to track a person or their device.

Attributes data points to a person.

Builds profiles of real people.

A basic legal framework to define and enforce legal rights and responsibilities in a society

Is essential for a complex and robust economy.

Specifies penalties for criminal offenses and breach of contracts.

Must enforce agreements and contracts.

All of these.

Open-source software

Eliminates tension between obeying law and helping others.

Restricts distribution of source code.

Includes Unix and Linux operating systems.

BOTH eliminates tension... And includes Unix.

US critical infrastructure relied on NSA-compromised technology

Neither of these.

Which could be cyberattacked by Chinese.

Both of these.

Which could be cyberattacked by Russians.

There are a variety of ethical views or theories, such as

Social contracts and a theory of political justice.

The deontological which emphasizes aggregate happiness or utility.

Natural rights which are a version of the golden rule.

Utilitarianism which is guided by counteracting negative and positive rights.

DRM overwhelmingly supports copyright infringement.

All of these.

DRM could undermine fair use but increase competition.

Federal law enforcement agencies seize domain names to hinder copyright infringement.

The federal government's administrative state handling the regulatory process

Is sometimes inundated with electronic comments duplicative or totally false.

All of these.

Relies largely on e-rulemaking nowadays.

Is aided by the General Services Administration in the e-rulemaking program.

The Marketplace Lite team that helped Healthcare.gov with Obamacare

Replaced the website's login system.

Both of these.

Worked in an agile way.

Neither of these.

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