Email answers to len@pdx.edu before the starting time of the final exam,
which for Spring 2008 is Monday June 9 at 3:30PM.
The module and original question are in italics,
the final exam question is in boldface.
Each answer to the
final exam question must consist of two parts, unless stated otherwise:
(1) The URL you used in the last
homework mailed to me and your grader before homework revisions were due.
(2) A quote from that URL.
If you include anything
other than (1) or (2) in your answer, that will constitute cheating on the
exam.
If you want to include any other comments, put them
in a separate section, after the end of the final exam.
If your homework gave more than one URL in answer to a question, you may use only the first URL to answer the question on this final exam.
To see a sample answer, look at this Sample Final Exam.
1. Computer Crime 1. Find a URL for a site that
estimates the impact of software piracy within the past 3 years to some
significant entity (for example a large company, and industry, a country, the
world). What is a definition of "computer crime".
What is the impact of software piracy within the
past 3 years to some significant entity?
ANSWER:
2. Professional and Ethical Responsibility. 2. Find a web site that
explains why a having or following a professional code of conduct is
important. The site need not relate to CS or engineering.
Give one reason that having or following a professional code of conduct
is important.
ANSWER:
2. Intellectual Property 5. Find one or two web sites arguing against the
concept of software patents
Give one argument agains the concept of a software patent.
ANSWER:
4. Privacy and Civil Liberties: Privacy of Personal Data 2. Find a set
of recommended privacy guidelines that a software or engineering business or
corporation could adopt to assure the privacy of its customers.
Give one privacy guideline that a software or
engineering business could adopt to assure the privacy of its customers.
ANSWER:
5. Economic Issues in Computing: 5. Find a resource that supplies
statistical evidence for the digital divide.
Give one piece of statistical evidence for the digital divide.
ANSWER: