ITPEC IT Passport Legal Affairs Questions with Answers

Legal Affairs

51 questions · IT Passport

Apr 2026 · Question 74

Which of the following is an example of a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)?

a)A contract specifying the service content to be provided, which is agreed between the service provider and the customer before the provision of the IT serviceb)A contract specifying that the vendor of computer equipment bears the responsibility of transferring the property right, and that the buyer bears the responsibility of paying the chargesc)A contract specifying the obligation of the outsourcer and outsourcee to maintain confidentiality of the secret information of a party that becomes known to the other party during system development, etc.d)A contract specifying that an outsourcee to whom the installation of a general-purpose software package has been outsourced performs the task at the outsourcee’s own discretion and responsibility, and receives payment upon the completion of the task

Apr 2026 · Question 76

Which of the following is appropriate as an expected advantage of the adoption of ISO 9001 by companies?

a)The companies’ trade procedures will be standardized, leading to improved efficiency and the avoidance of non-tariff barriers.b)Technical specifications will be standardized in the industry, and improvement in product quality and expansion of markets will move forward.c)Methods for handling information assets will be standardized and the quality of information security will improve.d)Business operations concerning quality management will be standardized, and the quality and efficiency of management will improve.

Apr 2026 · Question 77

Which of the following is the most appropriate as an example of an enhancement activity for compliance?

a)Expansion of a program to support the community service activities of employeesb)Education for employees concerning laws and rules that must be followedc)Acquisition of another company’s business for swift business deploymentd)Withdrawal from businesses where it is difficult to make profit

Apr 2026 · Question 78

Which of the following is standardized by ISO (International Organization for Standardization)?

a)Content management systemb)Information security management systemc)Talent management systemd)Knowledge management system

Apr 2025 · Question 73

Which of the following is a corporate activity of compliance promotion?

a)A mechanism for sharing sales people’s sales know-how, customer information, and negotiation information in the sales department is implemented to improve sales productivity.b)A mechanism for sharing customer information and purchasing history among all departments that come into contact with customers is implemented to increase customer satisfaction.c)Schedules, documents, messages, and meeting room reservation status are shared with groups such as departments and projects in order to prevent loss of communication.d)A code of conduct or a conduct manual based on corporate ethics that aims to follow the law is created, and ethical education is implemented to ensure that employees understand them.

Apr 2025 · Question 74

Among information processing standards, which of the following is defined for information security management?

a)IEEE 802.3b)ISO/IEC 27001c)JPEG 2000d)MPEG 1

Apr 2025 · Question 75

Which of the following is the most appropriate example of standardization in the manufacturing industry?

a)Daily workload is balanced, and the types and volume of components taken daily in from the previous process are equalized.b)In order to streamline the production process, common components and procedures are used for manufacturing.c)In order to improve the speed of a production management program, the optimum algorithm is selected.d)Production planning, production processes, and working methods are simplified through a reduction in product types and a review of work details.

Apr 2025 · Question 76

According to the ISO 9000 family, quality is defined as the “degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements.” When products are evaluated on the basis of this definition, which of the following is most appropriate as a product with good quality?

a)A product having no customer complaints and a high level of customer satisfactionb)A product that a company produces in-house without outsourcingc)A product designed and manufactured using CAD and CAMd)A product utilizing materials and components of high quality

Apr 2025 · Question 78

A piece of software is provided in a form that enables use at a set fee or for a certain period of time. Which of the following is the most appropriate term to express this form of use?

a)Activationb)Adwarec)Subscriptiond)Volume license

Oct 2025 · Question 73

Which of the following is the right that belongs to a purchaser of a PC software package provided by means of CD-ROM?

a)Right to use the program stored in the CD-ROMb)Copyright of the program stored in the CD-ROMc)Design right of the CD-ROM storing the programd)Copyright of the CD-ROM storing the program

Oct 2025 · Question 74

Which of the following is free software that can be copied or modified freely without permission from the author?

a)Sharewareb)Package softwarec)Public domain softwared)Utility software

Oct 2025 · Question 76

Which of the following is appropriate as a characteristic of the QR code?

a)The code can contain only single-byte alphanumeric characters and symbols.b)The amount of information that can be stored is equivalent to that of a barcode.c)The code can be read from any direction including the top, bottom, left, and right.d)The code has a two-dimensional structure in which three barcode layers are stacked.

Oct 2025 · Question 77

Among the lists of corporate activities A through D, which of the following is the list that contains all activities concerning the establishment of compliance?

A:Supporting fine art and cultural activitiesB:Training employees in the codes of conductC:Performing activities for prevention of global desertificationD:Creating a mechanism for whistle blowing

a)A, Bb)A, Cc)B, Dd)C, D

Oct 2025 · Question 78

Which of the following is the international standardization organization that engages in standardization of information security management systems and quality management systems?

a)ANSIb)CENc)ISOd)JIS

Apr 2024 · Question 19

Which of the following is a term that means the validation of a software license by using the product ID and the user’s hardware information, in order to prevent unauthorized use of the software?

a)Activationb)Cloud computingc)Streamingd)Fragmentation

Apr 2024 · Question 75

Which of the following is an international standard for environmental management systems developed by ISO?

a)ISO 9000b)ISO 14001c)ISO/IEC 20000d)ISO/IEC 27000

Apr 2024 · Question 76

Which of the following examples of the sending of e-mail is inappropriate from the standpoint of the protection of personal information?

a)In responding to an e-mail asking questions about a product, you placed the e-mail addresses of multiple customers in the “CC” field as you want these customers to read the response.b)You created one (1) e-mail message for each of your top 10 customers with the largest amount of mail-order purchases, in order to inform each customer of a corresponding prize.c)You sent an e-mail message with information on an alumni meeting, and addressed the message to the e-mail addresses of all members listed in the alumni association directory that is distributed to all members.d)When you were arranging a special spring exhibition, you placed the e-mail addresses of selected members in the “BCC” field of an e-mail message and sent the message soliciting exhibits.

Apr 2024 · Question 78

Which of the following is the appropriate description concerning an international organization for standardization?

a)ICANN is an international organization for standardization in the fields of industry, science, and technology.b)IEC is an international organization for standardization in the field of e-commerce.c)IEEE is an international organization for standardization in the field of accounting.d)ITU is an international organization for standardization in the field of telecommunications.

Apr 2024 · Question 92

Which of the following is the most appropriate term to express the initiatives that are implemented by a financial institution or other such institution in order to prevent acts where funds obtained illegally are disguised as being obtained by legitimate means?

a)Anti-money laundering (AML)b)Insider trading regulationsc)Skimmingd)Phishing

Oct 2024 · Question 73

Which of the following is the most appropriate description of NDA?

a)It is a specialized organization that monitors and analyzes threats to the information systems in a company, etc.b)It is a contract that makes the contracting parties agree to hold and maintain in confidence the confidential information of the other party.c)It is an agreement of an objective quality standard that is concluded between a service provider and the user concerning the service provided.d)It is a hierarchical decomposition of the tasks to be implemented in a project.

Oct 2024 · Question 74

Which of the following is a code that stores information in a vertical and horizontal two-dimensional pattern?

a)ASCII codeb)G-codec)EAN coded)QR code

Oct 2024 · Question 75

Concerning the EU’s General Data Protection Rules (GDPR), which of the following lists all and only the appropriate descriptions?

A:If a business has an office within the EU region and provides data and services within the EU region, it is subject to the rules.B:If a business has an office within the EU region and provides data and services to Asia, the US, or other such places outside of the EU region, it is not subject to the rules.C:If a business does not have an office within the EU region and provides data and services only to Asia, the US, or other such places outside of the EU region, it is not subject to the rules.D:If a business does not have an office within the EU region and provides data and services from Asia, the US, or other such places to the EU region, it is not subject to the rules.

a)Ab)A, B, Cc)A, Cd)A, C, D

Oct 2024 · Question 76

Among company’s actions A through C below, which of the following lists all and only the acts that may be problematic in terms of compliance?

A:In order to increase awareness of the name of a new product among consumers, a campaign is implemented where anyone can apply for a prize by answering a simple quiz that just asks a part of the product name is published widely in media such as newspapers, the relevant company’s website, and magazines, and one of the applicants is chosen at random to receive a prize of 100,000 yen.B:When a company received an order for an advertisement from an advertiser, the company posted an article on its popular website as a general article that favorably reviews a certain product without indicating that the article is an advertisement.C:A bag with a design inspired by France was manufactured domestically and was put on sale with a tag featuring a photograph of Paris and the French flag, but without noting the country of production.

a)A, Bb)A, B, Cc)A, Cd)B, C

Oct 2024 · Question 78

Which of the following is an organization in the USA that promotes standardization activities concerning Ethernet LAN and wireless LAN, etc.?

a)ICANNb)IEEEc)ISOd)W3C

Apr 2023 · Question 73

Which of the following is an appropriate combination of the standards and their applicable fields?

IEEE 802.3ISO 9001ISO 14001

a)LANEnvironmental managementQuality managementb)LANQuality managementEnvironmental managementc)Environmental managementLANQuality managementd)Environmental managementQuality managementLAN

Apr 2023 · Question 86

Which of the following shows a method that adheres to compliance, and sends advertisement e-mails and collects personal information only to/from the users who provided an explicit agreement in advance?

a)Activationb)Opt-outc)Opt-ind)Whitelist

Oct 2023 · Question 73

Which of the following is an international book code?

a)EANb)ISBNc)ITFd)UPC

Oct 2023 · Question 74

Among the various types of license agreements for a software package, which of the following is an appropriate explanation concerning a site license?

a)A software package can be used on multiple computers in a designated company or organization.b)A software package can be used on a designated computer or a definite number of computers.c)A software package can be installed on a designated server, and can also be used by any clients to access the server.d)A software package can be used by a designated user or a definite number of users regardless of use or purpose.

Oct 2023 · Question 75

Company S purchases equipment from Company K by using the procedure shown in the diagram below. In this transaction procedure, which of the following is the point where the sales contract is concluded? Here, once the quotation is provided, the content of the transaction does not change throughout the procedure.

a)Ab)Bc)Cd)D

Oct 2023 · Question 76

Among cases of sending e-mail, which of the following is the most appropriate from the viewpoint of consideration for the recipients?

a)A questionnaire on member satisfaction is sent by e-mail to all the addresses of 100 selected members entered in the “To” (destination) field.b)A large-size document presenting a company’s products is sent to a customer as an e-mail attachment without being compressed.c)A reply to an e-mail query from a customer about a product is sent also to those customers who should know about the details, by entering their addresses in the “Cc” (carbon copy) field.d)An e-mail is sent to the limited customers by using the “Bcc” (blind carbon copy) field in order to inform them of the URL of the Web page of a special event.

Apr 2022 · Question 74

Which of the following is an example of a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)?

a)A contract specifying the service content to be provided, which is agreed between the service provider and the customer before the provision of the IT serviceb)A contract specifying that the vendor of computer equipment bears the responsibility of transferring the property right, and that the buyer bears the responsibility of paying the charges.c)A contract, specifying the obligation of the outsourcer and outsourcee to maintain confidentiality of the secret information of a party that becomes known to the other party during system developmentd)A contract specifying that an outsourcee to whom the installation of a general-purpose software package has been outsourced performs the task at the outsourcee’s own discretion and responsibility, and receives payment upon the completion of the task

Apr 2022 · Question 78

Mr. X stores images taken by a digital camera in a storage medium, inserts the storage medium in a printer, and prints them. It is possible to print the images without taking into consideration the manufacturer of the digital camera. Which of the following is the technical premise concerning image data that enables this?

a)Commoditizationb)Networkingc)Standardizationd)Ubiquity

Oct 2022 · Question 74

Among actions concerning the creation of a computer program, which of the following is a copyright violation?

a)Creating another Web page by using the source of HTML that was downloaded from the Internetb)Creating a program based on an idea that was discussed on a bulletin board on the Internetc)Creating a program to increase a company’s operational efficiency by using a program that was created during one’s school daysd)Creating a program based on a flowchart in a purchased book

Apr 2021 · Question 73

Which of the following is the right to protect the content of user guides attached to software packages?

a)Industrial design rightb)Trademark rightc)Copyrightd)Patent right

Apr 2021 · Question 85

Which of the following is the most appropriate explanation of a patent strategy of cross-licensing?

a)It is the acquisition of patents held by a company through absorption-style merger, to gain that company’s technology.b)It is implementation of joint research with other organizations, to complement a company’s own technologies and apply for patents.c)It is granting a company’s own patents to other companies and obtaining royalties commensurate with their value.d)It is mutual consent between patent holders on the use of each other’s patents.

Oct 2021 · Question 73

Which of the following is the coding scheme that can encode a large amount of information into a small area and has an error correction function that enables the code to be read out correctly even when the code cannot be partially read out?

a)ISBN codeb)ITF codec)QR coded)Unicode

Oct 2021 · Question 78

Which of the following is the most appropriate example of standardization in the manufacturing industry?

a)Workload is balanced, and the types and volume of components taken in from the previous process are equalized.b)In order to rationalize production activities, the components and procedures that are required for manufacturing are unified.c)In order to improve the execution speed of a production management program, the optimum algorithm is selected.d)Production planning, production processes, and working methods are simplified through a reduction in product types and a review of work details.

Apr 2020 · Question 78

Which of the following is an appropriate description concerning the two-dimensional code symbol?

a)Information is read in the horizontal direction only, in the same way as the one-dimensional bar code.b)Scanning errors can be detected in both horizontal and vertical directions, but cannot be corrected.c)When the area is equivalent in size to the one-dimensional bar code, more information can be recorded.d)Since a matrix code has information in both horizontal and vertical directions, its allowable reading angle is narrow.

Oct 2020 · Question 76

Which of the following is the purpose of strengthening compliance in corporate management?

a)To prevent corporate management and employees from being involved in misconduct or scandals that may threaten the continued existence of the companyb)To retain management resources for differentiation from competitors and thereby gain a competitive edgec)To curb the exercise of the management powers and thereby build a framework for sound managementd)To improve the satisfaction of stakeholders including customers, shareholders, and employees in order to achieve the company’s continued growth

Oct 2020 · Question 85

Which of the following is an approach among two (2) or more companies, where each of them is granted the right to use the technologies patented by the other parties?

a)Alliancingb)Cross licensingc)Joint venturingd)Loyalty

Oct 2019 · Question 73

Which of the following codes is used as an international standard for identifying a book?

a)ISBNb)ITFc)JANd)QR

Oct 2019 · Question 76

Which of the following is an explanation of free software?

a)Software that can be installed on any number of computers without limitation in a predetermined location of useb)Software that requires the users to pay predetermined charges to the developer if it continues to be used after a certain period of free trialc)Software that is commercially available and permitted to be installed on one or more computersd)Software that is provided without charge, and can be modified, copied, and distributed without restriction under the license agreement.

Oct 2019 · Question 78

Which of the following is the primary purpose of the ISO 9000 series?

a)To provide standards for a quality management system that aims to improve customer satisfactionb)To provide the latest methodologies and tools for effective and efficient quality managementc)To provide the successful best practices of software development processes and activitiesd)To provide quality management activities that should be performed in a development project

Apr 2018 · Question 73

Which of the following is an appropriate description concerning the two-dimensional symbol (two-dimensional bar code)?

a)Information is scanned in the horizontal direction only, in the same way as the linear bar code.b)Errors can be detected in both horizontal and vertical directions, but cannot be corrected.c)When the area is equivalent in size to the linear bar code, more information can be recorded.d)Since a matrix code has information in both horizontal and vertical directions, its adjustable scanning angle is narrow.

Apr 2018 · Question 76

Which of the following is an appropriate description of certification to ISO 9001?

a)Once a party is certified, the certification is permanent.b)Certification is applied to manufacturing industries, not to service industries.c)There is only one certification body in each country.d)Organizations which fulfill the international standard “Quality Management Systems - Requirements” are assessed and certified.

Apr 2018 · Question 78

Which of the following is an appropriate description concerning a “volume license agreement”?

a)It is an agreement where a master copy is provided to customers, such as companies, who purchase the software in a large quantity, and the number of permitted installations is determined in advance.b)It is an agreement where the location of use is restricted to a specified facility, and the software can be used without limiting the number of computers or users in the facility.c)It is an agreement where standard licensing conditions are defined and a license agreement is automatically considered to be concluded between the right holder and the purchaser when a certain limited number of packages are unwrapped.d)It is an agreement where the use of software is permitted by accepting the terms and conditions displayed on the screen when the software is downloaded from the Internet.

Oct 2018 · Question 50

A company purchased the enterprise license of software X that can be used for 100 PCs, and then installed it on those PCs. Which of the following is an action that complies with the license agreement?

a)Of the 100 PCs, 10 PCs are moved to another department without uninstalling software X from the hard disks, and continue to be used.b)10 PCs are additionally purchased, and software X is installed on those PCs without purchasing additional licenses.c)After sales of software X is discontinued, the company stops managing the license keys and allows users to install it freely.d)License usage is controlled so that the number of PCs concurrently using the software, not the number of PCs on which software X is installed, is equal to or less than the number of purchased licenses.

Oct 2018 · Question 74

Which of the following is one of the characteristics of QR code?

a)Reading direction is identified using position detection patterns (cut-out symbols).b)It requires more space than a one-dimensional bar code to represent the same amount of data.c)It can only encode numbers and alphabetical characters.d)It is a stacked bar code, which is composed of a set of bar codes stacked vertically one above another.

Oct 2018 · Question 75

Which of the following is an explanation of a volume license agreement on software?

a)It is an agreement in which a master copy of software is provided to a customer, such as an enterprise who purchases the software in high volume, and the number of permitted installations is defined in advance.b)It is an agreement in which the location of use is restricted to a specified facility, and the software can be used without limiting the number of computers or users in the facility.c)It is an agreement in which the use of software is permitted by accepting the terms and conditions of the contract displayed on the screen when the software is downloaded from the Internet.d)It is an agreement in which standard licensing terms are defined and a license agreement is considered to be automatically concluded between the rights holder and the purchaser when a certain amount of package is unwrapped.

Oct 2018 · Question 76

In the case of placing an order for a product on an Internet shopping site, at which point is the sales contract concluded?

a)At the point in time when the consumer’s purchase message reaches the shopb)At the point in time when the shop sends out an acceptance notice to the consumerc)At the point in time when the shop’s acceptance notice reaches the consumerd)At the point in time when the ordered product reaches the consumer

Oct 2018 · Question 79

Which of the following is an explanation of compliance management?

a)It is a business process of monitoring and checking whether the business management is adequate and appropriate, so as to maintain the legitimacy of the business activities towards the shareholders.b)It is a business process of holding accountability to the shareholders and other stakeholders for the operational activities and business performance.c)It is a business process of implementing rules, manuals, and checking systems based on business ethics, and performing business activities in accordance with legal requirements and social norms.d)It is a business process of providing investors and analysts with accurate management information necessary for making investment decisions, on a timely and continuous basis.