Multiple Choice Questions

1. It is an act providing for the recognition and use of electronic commercial and non-
commercial transactions, penalties for unlawful use thereof, and other purposes.
a. Republic Act 10173
b. Republic Act 8792
c. Republic Act 9160
d. Republic Act 1432
Answer: b. Republic Act 8792

2. Republic Act 8792 is also known as?

a. Electronic Commerce Act
b. Electrical Tape Act
c. Electricity Act
d. Electronic Commercial Act
Answer: a. Electronic Commerce Act

3. It refers to information generated, sent, received, or stored by electronic, optical, or

similar means.
a. Electronic Date Message
b. Information and Communication System
c. Electronic Signature
d. Electronic Document
Answer: a. Electronic Date Message

4. It refers to a secret code which secures and defends sensitive information that crosses
over public channels into a form decipherable only with a matching electronic key.
a. Electronic Date Message
b. Information and Communication System
c. Electronic Signature
d. Electronic Key
Answer: d. Electronic Key

5. Service provider refers to a provider of which?

a. On-line services or network access, or the operator of facilities therefor,
including entities offering the transmission, routing, or providing of
connections for online communications, digital or otherwise, between or
among points specified by a user, of electronic documents of the user’s
choosing
b. The necessary technical means by which electronic documents of an
originator may be stored and made accessible to a designated or
undesignated third party
c. Either A or B
d. None of the above
Answer: c. Either A or B
 6. What shall serve as initial platform of the government information infrastructure (GII) to
facilitate the electronic online transmissions and conveyance of government services.
a. RPWEB
b. RPWORLD
c. RTT
d. RPP
Answer: a. RPWEB

7. What department shall direct and supervise the promotion and development of
electronic commerce in the country with relevant government agencies?
a. Department of Education
b. Department of Commerce
c. Department of Trade and Industry
d. Department of Finance
Answer: c. Department of Trade and Industry

8. This refers to unauthorized access into or interference in a computer system/server.

a. Hacking/Cracking
b. Sniffing
c. Virus
d. Denial of Service Attack
Answer: a. Hacking/Cracking

9. What is the penalty for hacking/cracking?

a. Minimum of P100,000 and maximum commensurate to the damage incurred
b. Imprisonment of six months to three years
c. A and B
d. A or B
Answer: c. A and B

10. What is the penalty for piracy?

a. Minimum of P500,000 and maximum commensurate to the damage incurred
b. Imprisonment of one year to five years
c. A and B
d. None of the above
Answer: d. None of the above

True or False Questions

1. The objective of Electronic Commerce Act is to facilitate domestic and international

dealings, transactions, arrangements, agreements, contracts and exchanges and storage
of information through the utilization of electronic, optical and similar medium, mode,
instrumentality and technology to recognize the authenticity and reliability of electronic
 documents related to such activities and to promote the universal use of electronic
transaction in the government and general public.

Answer: True

2. Service providers shall have no authority to modify or alter the content of the electronic
data message or electronic document received or to make any entry therein on behalf
of the originator, addressee or any third party unless specifically authorized to do so.

Answer: True

3. Electronic documents shall have the legal effect, validity or enforceability as any other
document or legal writing

Answer: True

4. An electronic signature on the electronic document shall be equivalent to the signature

of a person on a written document if that signature is proved by showing that a
prescribed procedure, not alterable by the parties interested in the electronic
document, existed.

Answer: True

5. In any proceedings involving an electronic signature, it shall be presumed that the

electronic signature is the signature of the person to whom it correlates.

Answer: True

6. An electronic data message or electronic document is that of the originator if it was sent
by the originator himself.

Answer: True

7. Unless otherwise agreed between the originator and the addressee, the dispatch of an
electronic data message or electronic document occurs when it enters an information
system outside the control of the originator or of the person who sent the electronic
data message or electronic document on behalf of the originator.

Answer: True

8. If the addressee has not designated an information system, receipt occurs when the
electronic data message or electronic document exits an information system of the
addressee.
 Answer: False

9. Unless otherwise agreed between the originator and the addressee, an electronic data
message or electronic document is deemed to be dispatched at the place where the
originator has its place of business and received at the place where the addressee has its
place of business.

Answer: True

10. Where the law requires that any action referred to contract of carriage of goods be
carried out in writing or by using a paper document, that requirement is met if the
action is carried out by using one or more data messages or electronic documents.

Answer: True