UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS: 2020/2021
EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY / BUSINESS IN I. T/ APPLIED
COMPUTING/ INFO. SECURITY & FORENSICS/ SOFTWARE DEV.
BIT 2109/ BAC 2104/ BSD 2104/ BISF 2104:
PROFESSIONAL ISSUES IN IT
FULL TIME/ PART TIME/ DISTANCE LEARNING
ORDINARY EXAMINATION
DATE: DECEMBER, 2021 TIME: 2 HOURS
INSTRUCTIONS: Question ONE IS COMPULSORY, Choose TWO OTHER Questions
QUESTION ONE [20 MARKS]
a) The IEBC is a body created by an act of parliament and is mandated to carry out elections for
political leadership positions as dictated in the Kenyan Constitution.
Discuss why Kenyan presidential candidates had a problem in fixing electronic voting systems
fault, through our courts, during the 2013 general election?
[5 Marks]
b) You are the Director of ICT and Distance learning at KCA-University, you have been charged
to oversee a contract agreement for internet connectivity service from a local ISP provider
Kenet. Discuss the possible key contents the contract. [5 Marks]
c) Using relevant examples define the following terminologies:
i. Ethics [2 Marks]
ii. Professional [2 Marks]
iii. Technician [2 Marks]
d) Describe four characteristics of a professional computer technologist. [4 Marks]
QUESTION TWO [15 MARKS]
a) Briefly discuss the guidelines to be applied in order to protect the following ICT objects
i. Protecting hardware [2 Marks]
ii. Protecting the code [2 Marks]
iii. Protecting source code software. [2 Marks]
iv. Protecting document. [2 Marks]
b) Using relevant example, differentiate consequence-based and rule-based as principles of moral
judgment. [4 Marks]
c) Explain any three functions of computer codes of ethics to computer professions [3 Marks]
QUESTION THREE [15 MARKS]
a) What is the purpose of the following?
i. Patent [1 Mark]
ii. Privacy policy [1 Mark]
b) What term is used to describe the practice of buying domain names that you do not intend to
use? Is this practice illegal? [3 Marks]
c) Read the below and answer the question that follows:
The owner of a startup PICK & GO grocery stores needed a computer-based accounting
system. He identified various inputs and outputs he felt were required to satisfy his needs and
then showed his design to a computer programmer and asked the programmer if she could
implement such a system. The programmer knew she could implement the system because she
had developed a complex system before. In fact, she felt that this design will need major
revision but said nothing because the business owner didn’t ask her and she thought she might
be hired to implement the needed revisions later.
Required:
Discuss in detail, the programmer’s decision based on professional code of conduct and ethics.
[10 Marks]
QUESTION FOUR [15 MARKS]
a) How does due diligence differ from due care? Why are both important? [3 Marks]
b) Briefly discuss the morality of creating machines capable of picking tea leaves from the tea
plantation to the detriment of human labour. [6 Marks]
c) It can be argued that the Internet brought people together, or isolated people as they all sit in
front of their computers. Briefly discuss this from your point of view. [6 Marks]
