SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES COLLEGE

Julio Pacana St. Cagayan de Oro City

PRELIM WEEKLY QUIZ

SOCIAL AND PROFESSIONAL ISSUES
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1. Why is CODE of ETHICS important in Businesses/Organization?

- A code encourages discussions of ethics and compliance,
empowering employees to handle ethical dilemmas they
encounter in everyday work. It can also serve as a valuable
reference, helping employees locate relevant documents, services
and other resources related to ethics within the organization

2. What is Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002?

- The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is a federal law that established
sweeping auditing and financial regulations for public companies.
Lawmakers created the legislation to help protect shareholders,
employees and the public from accounting errors and fraudulent
financial practices

3. What is the goal of cryptography?

- Cryptography is the science of using mathematics to encrypt and
decrypt data

4. What is the main purpose of encryption?

- The purpose of encryption is confidentiality—concealing the content of
the message by translating it into a code. The purpose of digital
signatures is integrity and authenticity—verifying the sender of a
message and indicating that the content has not been changed.

5. Can all encryption be broken?

- encryption should be unbreakable, as long as the key used to encrypt
the information is kept secret. However, in practice, encryption can be
broken if someone is able to find a weakness in the encryption
algorithm, or if they are able to obtain the key through some other
means.

6. Where is encryption used in real life?

- Encryption is used in electronic money schemes to protect
conventional transaction data like account numbers and transaction
amounts, digital signatures can replace handwritten signatures or a
credit-card authorizations, and public-key encryption can provide
confidentiality.