Impact of computing: AP CSP practice
Benefits, harms, bias, privacy and security. 15 questions in the style of the AP CSP exam.
Sample questions
What does the term "digital divide" describe?
- The split between hardware and software
- The process of dividing a file into packets
- The difference between binary and decimal
- Differences in access to computing devices and the Internet between groups of people
Volunteers use a website to classify thousands of photos of galaxies for a research project. Which term best describes this?
- Citizen science
- Lossy compression
- Fault tolerance
- Keylogging
A student receives an email that looks like it is from her bank. It says her account will be closed unless she clicks a link and enters her password. What is this most likely to be?
- A software update
- A Creative Commons license
- A DNS lookup
- A phishing attempt