Describe business situations in which an individual’s or businesses’ behavior would be considered:
What will be an ideal response?
(a) illegal and unethical;
(b) legal but unethical;
(c) illegal but ethical.
(a) illegal and unethical;
An example of this is stealing.
(b) legal but unethical;
Consider a lonely database administrator for DreamHome who is using his or her
administrative access privileges to query the DreamHome database for clients whose property
rental patterns suggest that they are single.
(c) illegal but ethical.
Suppose that IBM shares are selling for $80.15 with buyers available for 50,000 shares on the
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), but they are selling for $80.14 with buyers for only 300
shares on Instinet, an electronic stock market. The NYSE is required under Reg NMS to route
the shares to the market with the cheaper price. However, institutional investors such as
mutual funds and retirement funds trading very large blocks of stock need to trade on the
market with the greatest liquidity, that is, with the most shares available to buy or sell,
ensuring the fastest completion of their order, even if it might be a penny or two less
advantageous at that moment.
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Which of the following is one of the benefits of object-oriented programming?
a. Enables code reuse. b. More understandable code. c. More easily-maintained code. d. All of the above.
A catch block that does not specify which type of exception it catches ________.
a) is a syntax error b) is useless; it will not catch any type of exception c) will catch any type of exception that does not already have a handler defined d) should be the last catch block in a group e) Both c and d.
The X.25 standard uses which protocol at the Frame Level?
a. V.24 b. LAP-B c. X.3 d. none of the above
This error should be easily detected when conducting a wire-map test on a terminated cable.
What will be an ideal response?