TM260 / TMA 1 of 2 Spring 2021-2022 Faculty of Computer Studies Course Code: TM260 Course Title: Security, Ethics and Privacy in IT and Computing Tutor Marked Assignment ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ

TM260 / TMA 1 of 2 Spring 2021-2022
Faculty of Computer Studies
Course Code: TM260
Course Title: Security, Ethics and Privacy in IT and Computing
Tutor Marked Assignment
ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
Cut-Off Date: To be announced
Total Marks: 80 marks turned into 20
Contents
Question 1 ……………………..………………………………………..………………………………………………….…… 2
Plagiarism Warning:
As per AOU rules and regulations, all students are required to submit their own TMA work and
avoid plagiarism. The AOU has implemented sophisticated techniques for plagiarism detection.
You must provide all references in case you use and quote another person's work in your TMA.
You will be penalized for any act of plagiarism as per the AOU's rules and regulations.
Declaration of No Plagiarism by Student (to be signed and submitted by student
with TMA work):
I hereby declare that this submitted TMA work is a result of my own efforts and I have not
plagiarized any other person's work. I have provided all references of information that I have
used and quoted in my TMA work.
Name of Student:
Signature:
Date:
TM260 / TMA 2 of 2 Spring 2021-2022
Question 1: [80 marks]
Safety-critical systems are one of the software types that raise many legal and ethical issues.
You can touch its benefits everywhere but .the consequences of malfunctions are disastrous
Write a report titled “Risks and liabilities of safety-critical systems” and cover the following
topics:
 What is a safety-critical system? What does it consist of? (5 marks)
 Safety-critical systems are everywhere in our lives, mention eight different examples for
safety-critical systems from different areas and specify each for each application the
area it belongs to. (8 marks)
 Discuss four distinguishable features of safety critical systems. (8 marks)
 Discuss four reliability regimes/factors for safety-critical systems. (8 marks)
 Discuss four challenges in developing safety-critical systems that are not usual in
developing traditional systems. (8 marks)
 Discuss five errors that may lead to system failure in the safety-critical systems. (5
marks)
 Explain one real example about a safety-critical system failure and explain the reasons
of the failure and its consequences, and what should have been done to avoid such
crisis. (5 marks)
 As a software developer, write some recommendations and guidelines to your
colleagues to use when developing safety-critical systems and make sure to make their
liabilities, responsibilities, skills required clear. Cover at least ten important points. (10
marks)
 Conclude your report by summarizing importance of safety-critical systems in enhancing
our lives and work and the need to put standards and legislations in advance to avoid
any ethical or legal issues that may emerge. (4 marks)
Also pay attention to the following:
 Add at least two figures/tables. (2 marks)
 Add captions for the figures/tables. (1 mark)
 Use cross referencing for the figures/tables. (1 mark)
 Write at least five references not including your book or Wikipedia. (5 marks)
 Use Harvard system (author-date) system in writing the references. (5 marks)
 Citation. (5 marks)
 Use meaningful titles and if needed subtitles and in general logical report format. (-3 marks)
 Correct grammar and spelling. (-2 mark)
 Format used should be formal and consistent for a repot such as using consistent front sizes and
styles and justify alignment. (-2 marks)
 Use (1350-1550) words not including references. (-2 marks)
 State number of words at the end of the report. (-1 mark)
 Plagiarism and late submissions will be penalized according to the deanship
regulations.
End of Questions