Questões de Concurso

Judge the following items according to the text above.

Atenção: As questões de números 16 a 20 baseiam-se no texto abaixo.

    One test of the vigor of the systems analyst role is that of demand. What is the current job market and what are the future employment prospects for the systems analyst? How do these compare with past? A recent study by Smolkina (2001) indicates that employment of systems analyst is projected to rank in the top twenty in the number of new jobs and is expected to increase over one hundred per cent over the next twenty years. In that study it was revealed that employment in computer and data processing services grew by more than 900,000 jobs from 1988 to 1998. In 1998, there were about 1.6 million wage and salary jobs, and an additional 216,000 self-employed workers, making it one of ...I... industries in the economy. Since the late 1980s, employment ...II... most rapidly in the computer programming services and prepackaged software segments of the industry. From 1988 to 1998, about 245,000 jobs were created in programming services and another 166,000 in prepackaged software. The study further revealed that the computer and data processing services industry has grown dramatically in recent years and employment is expected to grow about 117 percent by the year 2008, making this the fastest growing industry in the U.S. economy. The majority of workers in computer and data processing services are managers, professional specialists, such as computer systems analysts, engineers, and scientists; and technicians, such as computer programmers. Together, these occupational groups accounted for 70 percent of the jobs in the industry, reflecting the emphasis on high-level skills and  creativity. These statistics imply that the job title "Systems Analyst" is indeed ...III... and in fact is thriving (at least in name).

(Adapted from Morrell, J.S. et al. 2001. The Systems Analyst – A Post Mortem? available at http://www.sba.muohio.edu/abas/2001/quebec/Morrell_The_Systems_Ana lyst-_A_Post_Mortem.pdf)

Instruções: Para responder às questões de números 66 a 70 considere o texto a seguir.

    June 16, 2009

      China Orders Patches to Planned Web Filter

    By EDWARD WONG
    BEIJING − A designer of censorship software that the Chinese government requires to be preinstalled on computers sold in China has been ordered to fix potential security breaches in the software, the newspaper China Daily reported Monday. The report was an indication that the government still supports use of the software __[CONNECTOR__ heated debate over it.
    The software, called Green Dam-Youth Escort, has come under attack by many computer users in China for both political and technical reasons.
    Critics say that although the Chinese government insists that the software will be used only to block access to pornography Web sites, the software’s actual use will be to block any site with content deemed politically objectionable, like the Tibet issue or the 1989 Tiananmen killings.
    The government says all computers sold in China must have the software installed by July 1.
    Early reports had indicated that the government might simply require Green Dam to be included on a CD packaged with new computers, so users would have the option to install it. But it became apparent last week that the government was insisting that all computer makers preinstall the software by July 1. Foreign computer makers learned of the directive just three weeks ago and have been asking the Chinese government to reconsider the rules.
    Some computer experts who have studied the software said last week that it was so flawed that it could allow hackers to monitor a user’s Internet activity, steal personal data or plant viruses. One expert, J. Alex Halderman, a computer science professor at the University of Michigan, has posted on the Internet a report on Green Dam’s vulnerabilities.
    Rather than agreeing to scrap the software altogether, the Chinese government has responded to the technical criticisms by ordering that the potential security breaches be eliminated.
    Mr. Halderman said in an interview last week that it had only taken a few hours for him and his students to infiltrate a computer loaded with Green Dam and force it to crash. A skilled hacker could take over the computer to mine personal data or hitch it to other infected machines in a malevolent network known as a botnet, he added.

(Adapted from The New York Times, June 16, 2009)