CBSE Class 12 Informatics Practices Societal Impacts Assignment Set A

Question. In FOSS source code is usually hidden from the users. (True/False)
Answer. False

Question. The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own is known as _____________
Answer. Plagiarism

Question. A mail or message sent to a large number of people indiscriminately without their consent is called____________
Answer. Spam

Question. Receiving irreleavnt and unwanted emails repeatedly is an example of ______________.
Answer. Spam or spamming

Question. The generally recognized term for the government protection afforded to intellectual property (written and electronic) is __________.
Answer. Copyright law

Question. A software which can be freely accessed and modified is called ___________
Answer. Open source software

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

Question. Any fraudulent business practice that extracts money e from an unsuspecting, ignorant person is called_______
a. Stealing
b. Scam
c. Violation of copyright
d. Digital footprint
Answer. B

Question. ________ means no price is to be paid for the software.
a. Free software
b. Freeware
c. shareware
d. Open source software
Answer. B

Question. Ankit made a ERP - Enterprise resource planning solution for a renowned university and registered and Copyrights for the same. Which of the most important option; Ankit got the copyrights.
a. To get society status
b. To get fame
c. To get community welfare
d. To secure finance protection
Answer. D

Question. Which of the following is not an example of Social media platform?
a. Facebook
b. Pinterest
c. Google+
d. Social channel
Answer. D

Question. A responsible netizen must abide by __________
a. Net etiquettes
b. Communication etiquettes
c. Social media etiquettes
d. All of the above
Answer. D

Question. Any work / information that exist in digital form idea on internet or on an electronic device, is known as________________ property.
a. Licence property
b. digital property
c. source code property
d. software property
Answer. B

Question. Discarded electrical or or electronic devices are known as____________.
a. E waste
b. Software Waste
c. Hardware waste
d. Computer waste
Answer. A

Question. The least restrictive open sourcelicence is________ licence.
a. Apache Licence
b. MIT licence
c. GNU licence
d. BSD licence
Answer. B

Question. The original code written by programmers for a software is known as______________
a. Object code
b. Source code
c. Python code
d. Language code
Answer. B

Question.  ____________ means freedom to use the software.
a. Plagiarism
b. Freeware
c. Open software
d. Free software
Answer. D

Question. What is meant by the term cybercrime?
a. Any crime that uses computers to jeopardize or attempt to jeoparadise in national security
b. The use of computer networks to commit financial or identity fraud
c. The theft of Digital information
d. Any crime that involves computers and networks
Answer. D

Question. Every activity you perform on the internet is safe for how long?
a. 1 month
b. 1 year
c. As per my setting
d. Forever
Answer. D

Question. A _____________ is an injury or disorder of muscles, nerves, tendons, ligaments and joints.
a. Repetitive Strain injury
b. Muscle injury
c. Nervous breakdown
d. Joint pain
Answer. A

Question. ________________ is a technology related health condition affecting eyesight.
a. Computer vision strain
b. Computer vision syndrome
c. Eyesight syndrome
d. Vision imbalance
Answer. B

Question. IAD means _________________
a. Internet advanced data
b. Internet addiction disorder
c. Internet advanced digitalization
d. Internet aggregate data
Answer. B

Question. The__________ is the Digital trail of your activity on the internet.
a. Copyleft
b. Digital footprint
c. Digital data
d. Internet property
Answer. B

Question. The ________ the are the permissions given to use a product or someone's creator by the copyright holder.
a. Source code
b. Licence
c. Software authority
d. Digital rights
Answer. B

Question. _____________ is a licence that gives right opposite to copyright.
a. Left copy
b. Digital copy
c. Copyleft
d. IPR
Answer. C

CASE STUDY BASED QUESTIONS

Question. Naveen receiving an Unsolicited commercial emails is known as __________
a. Spam
b. Malware
c. Virus
d. worms
Answer. A

Question.Naveen’s Online personal account, personal website are the examples of?
a. Digital wallet
b. Digital property
c. Digital certificate
d. Digital signature
Answer. B

Question. Sending mean texts, posting false information about a person online, or sharing embarrassing photos or videos to harass, threaten or humiliate a target person, is called ____________
a. Eavesdropping
b. cyberbullying
c. Spamming
d. Phishing
Answer. B

Question. After practicals, Atharv left the computer laboratory but forgot to sign off from his email account. Later, his classmate Revaan started using the same computer. He is now logged in as Atharv. He sends inflammatory email messages to few of his classmates using Atharv’s email account. Revaan’s activity is an example of which of the following cyber crime?
a. Hacking
b. Identity theft
c. Cyber bullying
d. Plagiarism
Answer. B

Question. Rishika found a crumpled paper under her desk. She picked it up and opened it. It contained some text which was struck off thrice. But she could still figure out easily that the struck off text was the email ID and password of Garvit, her classmate. What is ethically correct for Rishika to do?
a. Inform Garvit so that he may change his password.
b. Give the password of Garvit’s email ID to all other classmates.
c. Use Garvit’s password to access his account.
Answer. A

Question. Suhana is down with fever. So, she decided not to go to school tomorrow. Next day, in the evening she called up her classmate, Shaurya and enquired about the computer class. She also requested him to explain the concept. Shaurya said, “Mam taught us how to use tuples in python”. Further, he generously said, “Give me some time, I will email you the material which will help you to understand tuples in python”.
Shaurya quickly downloaded a 2-minute clip from the Internet explaining the concept of tuples in python. Using video editor, he added the text “Prepared by Shaurya” in the downloaded video clip. Then, he emailed the modified video clip to Suhana. This act of Shaurya is an example of—
a. Fair use
b. Hacking
c. Copyright infringement
d. Cyber crime
Answer. C

Question. After a fight with your friend, you did the following activities. Which of these activities is not an example of cyber bullying?
a. You sent an email to your friend with a message saying that “I am sorry”.
b. You sent a threatening message to your friend saying “Do not try to call or talk to me”.
c. You created an embarrassing picture of your friend and uploaded on your account on a social networking site.
Answer. A

Question. Sourabh has to prepare a project on “Digital India Initiatives”. He decides to get information from the Internet. He downloads three web pages (webpage 1, webpage 2,webpage 3) containing information on Digital India Initiatives. Which of the following steps taken by Sourabh is an example of plagiarism or copyright infringement?
a. He read a paragraph on “Digital India Initiatives” from webpage 1 and rephrased it in his own words. He finally pasted the rephrased paragraph in his project.
b. He downloaded three images of “Digital India Initiatives” from webpage 2. He made a collage for his project using these images.
c. He downloaded “Digital India Initiative” icon from web page 3 and pasted it on the front page of his project report.
Answer. B

Question. You are planning to go on a vacation to Kashmir. You surfed the internet for the following:
i) Weather conditions
ii) Availabilty of air tickets and fares
iii) Places to visit
iv) Best hotel deals
Which of the above mentioned acts might have left a digital footprint?
a. i and ii
b. i, ii and iii
c. i, ii and iv
d. all of these
Answer. D

Question. Naveen received an email warning him of closure of his bank accounts if he did not update his banking information as soon as possible. He clicked the link in the email and entered his banking information. Next he got to know that he was duped.

Question. This is an example of __________ .
a. Online Fraud
b. Identity Theft
c. Phishing
d. Plagarism
Answer. C

Question. Someone steals Naveen’s personal information to commit theft or fraud, it is called____________
a. Online Fraud
b. Identity Theft
c. Phishing
d. Plagarism
Answer. B