ITGS Final Exam

Please answer all of the following questions, and then email them to itgs.sass@gmail.com

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There will be a post-exam ITGS mini-farewell party, at a room that I will indicate.

1. A family who plans to relocate to Argentina wants to find information about St. Andrew’s Scots School. In order to do that, it uses Google to search for the name of the school. Explain in detail:
a. How the search engine knows which pages contain information about our school.
b. How it ranks these pages so as to return them in order of decreasing relevance.
c. The process by which the user types the query and receives the links returned by the search engine.
d. How the school could make sure that the school’s web site appears first on the list.

2. Explain clearly how, in a network:
a. Users are prevented from accessing unauthorized web sites.
b. Outside hackers are stopped from gaining access to the network.
c. A single broadband Internet connection can be shared by many users in the network.

3. A friend of yours decides to start his own retail store and wants to take advantage of the latest technology. Give at least 5 examples of technological innovations that will result in increased productivity for his firm.

4. As you are surely aware, our school is dealing with issues that have to do with students accessing exams through staff email accounts, the school network and other means. Related to the topics studied in ITGS, please answer the following questions:
a. Why was the school network vulnerable to these activities?
b. Were there, in your opinion, other safety measures that the school should have adopted and that would have prevented these attacks?
c. Comment on what the reaction will likely be from staff and other users whose accounts have been broken into.
d. Why, again in your opinion, did this hacking take place?

5. A school decides to issue laptops to all their students and teachers. What would be advantages and concerns stemming out of this initiative from the point of view of:
a. Teachers at the school
b. Administrators
c. Students

6. Choose one of these topics and comment on the research you have done related to the impact of technology on individuals and society as applied to that topic.
a. Health
b. Arts, Entertainment and Leisure
c. Science and the environment
d. Politics and government

7. You are hired as a security advisor for a bank, who has had some security issues and wishes to re-examine their network access policies. Give examples, relative to the operation of this bank, in which you would use:
a. Encrypted information
b. Password access
c. Biometric control