Q. Japanese restaurants in Sapporo and Japanese restaurants in Hakodate are to be searched for together. Which of the following is the logical expression that represents the search condition? 

(a) (“Sapporo” AND “Hakodate”) AND “Japanese restaurant” 

(b) (“Sapporo” OR “Hakodate”) AND “Japanese restaurant”

(c) (“Sapporo” AND “Hakodate”) OR “Japanese restaurant” 

(d) (“Sapporo” OR “Hakodate”) OR “Japanese restaurant” 

Q. Which of the following is used to confirm that there is no falsification of the content of an e-mail?

Q. A document file that is stored on a file server is directly edited on a PC and then an attempt is made to overwrite the file, but the message “You do not have permission, so the file cannot be saved” is displayed. Which of the following is the appropriate combination of permissions that were set for the document file and the folder that it is stored in?

Q. In a development project for a system, there is a plan to create 36 programs with the same size. It was first planned to assign only Mr. A who can create six (6) programs per week, but the plan was changed and it was decided to assign two (2) people: Mr. A, and Mr. B who has half the productivity of Mr. A. When the cost per week for Mr. A and Mr. B is 300 thousand yen and 200 thousand yen respectively, how much is the change in the cost as compared to the original plan? Here, Mr. A and Mr. B perform activities in parallel, and the efficiency of Mr. A and Mr. B are always fixed.

(a) A decrease of 300 thousand yen

(b) A decrease of 800 thousand yen

(c) An increase of 200 thousand yen 

(d) An increase of 1,200 thousand yen

Q. Which of the following is the most appropriate term for information in large quantities and in diverse forms that has real-timeness and is expected to help obtain knowledge useful for decision-making?

Q. There is the “Employee” table and the “Department” table in a relational database. The “Employee” table and the “Department” table are joined, and employees who live in prefectures different from the prefectures that their departments are located in are extracted. How many employees are extracted? 

Q. When a user accessed the URL in the body of an e-mail message with a PC, the message shown in the figure appeared on the screen and the PC was locked. Which of the following is used in this attack? 

Q. Among confidentiality, integrity, and availability, which of the following is the list that contains all and only the properties that are lost in the information security incident below?

Q. Which of the following is an appropriate effect of CAD?

(a) It can identify the required volume of material, and place the optimum order. 

(b) It can automate production processes and remove the need for human work.

(c) It can manage the series of production processes in an integrated manner. 

(d) It can reuse design data and simplify the streamlining of work. 

Q. Which of the following is always true for two (2) sets A and B? Here, (X ⋂ Y) represents the set that contains only the elements that are in both X and Y (intersection set), and (X ∪ Y) represents the set that contains all of the elements that are in at least one of X or Y (union set).

(a) (A ∪ B) is a subset of the complement of (A ⋂ B).

(b) (A ∪ B) is a subset of A.

(c) (A ⋂ B) is a subset of (A ∪ B).

(d) (A ⋂ B) is a subset of the complement of A.

Q. When a chairperson and a secretary are selected from three (3) candidates with a method that allows dual roles, there are three (3) ways for the selection of a single chairperson and three (3) ways for the selection of a secretary, so in total, there are nine (9) combinations for the selection of a chairperson and a secretary. When a chairperson and a secretary are selected from five (5) candidates with a method that allows dual roles, how many combinations for the selection are there? 

Q. Multiple files stored on a hard disk are used in work, from Monday to Friday. In order to handle failure of the hard disk, the data is backed up to another hard disk after the end of each day’s work. When the backup has following conditions, what is the total time required (in minutes) to perform backups of data from Monday to Friday?

Q. Which of the following is an appropriate description concerning a balanced scorecard (BSC)?

(a) It is a business management technique that converts a company or organization’s vision and strategy into specific actions from four (4) viewpoints (“financial viewpoint,” “customer viewpoint,” “business process viewpoint,” and “growth and learning viewpoint”).

(b) It is an approach where the corporate activities of providing a product or service to customers are viewed as a chain of activities of procurement, development, manufacturing, sales, and service that adds and builds up value and costs in a sequential manner and produces the final “value” for the customer.

(c) It is a business analysis technique for a company that produces and sells a wide variety of products and is involved in several businesses to determine the products and businesses’ combination that has the most efficient and effective distribution of management resources from a strategic perspective.

(d) It is a business strategy technique for use in the evaluation of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in projects, venture businesses, and other such activities by organizations and individuals that perform decision making in order to achieve a target. 

Q. Which of the following is a protocol that is used for synchronization of the internal clock of a computer via a network with a server that holds a reference clock?

Q. Which of the following is an explanation of spyware?

(a) It is a scam where money is demanded just by viewing a web site or clicking an image on it. 

(b) It is a mechanism where an attacker packages attack tools such as log removal or a back door and hides them in a PC so that the attacker can use them after intrusion.

(c) It is a program that infects a large number of PCs and performs actions such as simultaneous attacks by illegitimately operating the PCs as instructed over a network.

(d) It is a program that is installed without the user knowing and collects information such as the user’s personal information and access history. 

Q. Among the methods I through III for handling multiple hard disks as one (1) logical disk, which of the following lists all and only the methods that can recover data even if one of the constituent hard disks fails? 

Q. Estimation methods for system development include the analogy-based method, the bottom-up method, and the FP (Function Point) method. Which of the following is an appropriate explanation of the FP method? 

(a) It is a method for the estimation of system scale by measurement of the number of functions on the basis of factors such as number of input screens, output reports and files that are processed by the system.

(b) It is a method for the estimation of person-hours for an overall system on the basis of an estimation of person-hours for each activity identified with WBS.

(c) It is a method for the estimation of the total person-hours for development from the standard lines of code to be developed per person per month after the estimation of the lines of code of a system’s programs.

(d) It is a method for the estimation of the person-hours for system development that takes into account the differences with similar systems developed in the past. 

Q. Which of the following is an appropriate description concerning biometric authentication? 

(a) If margin for error in matching with the authentication data is made larger, both the possibility of rejecting an authorized person and the possibility of accepting an unauthorized person become smaller. 

(b) It eliminates the need to remember IDs and passwords for authentication, and the need to carry keys or cards.

(c) It cannot be used with other authentication methods such as passwords or tokens. 

(d) The effective period in which retina pattern and finger vein pattern can be used for authentication is short because they change greatly over years.

Q. A company orders information system to an overseas vendor under a contract for work. Which of the following is an appropriate activity that is performed as project procurement management by the company?

(a) After the start of development, the company has the procurement detail such as the development scope, specifications, and work contents, etc. agreed upon by the vendor in writing.

(b) When a defect is found after the acceptance of delivery, even if not indicated in the contract, the company instructs the vendor to examine not only the defect but similar defects and fix them. 

(c) In order to make good use of the capabilities of the overseas vendor, the company does not include the provisions of intellectual property rights in the contract and allows the vendor to code programs freely.  

(d) At the time of signing the contract, the company agrees upon in writing with the vendor the documents to be delivered and the rules for changing specifications during development.