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WorksheetsEthics in IT Quiz
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
What is the primary foundation of trust with clients, colleagues, and stakeholders?
Technical skill
Lawful conduct
Professional competence
Integrity
A software developer finds a critical bug right before a launch. The ethical action demonstrating integrity is to:
Blame the issue on the testing team.
Delay the launch without giving a specific reason.
Fix it quietly without telling anyone to avoid delay.
Immediately report it to their manager.
The principle of Responsibility & Accountability primarily involves:
Refusing gifts from vendors.
Taking ownership of your actions and their outcomes.
Protecting all information you encounter.
Staying updated with the latest technology trends.
If a systems administrator causes a service outage by mistake, the responsible action is to:
Blame the outage on a hardware failure.
Hope no one notices and try to fix it secretly.
Immediately update their resume in case they are fired.
Inform the team, fix the error, and document the incident.
Professional Competence in IT requires:
Delegating tasks you are unfamiliar with.
Maintaining and improving your skills through ongoing education.
Prioritizing speed over quality in all projects.
Only focusing on your specific job duties.
A cybersecurity analyst takes a cloud security certification after their company adopts cloud infrastructure. This is an example of:
Integrity.
Professional Competence.
Respect.
Lawful Conduct.
Lawful Conduct for an IT professional includes:
Accepting small gifts from vendors as a courtesy.
Using pirated software to save company money.
Sharing confidential information if it helps the company.
Adhering to laws, regulations, and company policies.
An IT procurement officer is offered a personal bonus to choose a specific vendor. The ethical response is to:
Ask for a larger bonus from a different vendor.
Choose the vendor but decline the bonus.
Refuse the bribe and report the incident.
Accept the bonus since it benefits them personally.
The principle of Respect & Confidentiality combines:
Honesty about project status and personal qualifications.
Fair treatment of people and protection of private information.
Following the law and improving personal skills.
Taking ownership of mistakes and fixing them.
A support technician sees a file named 'Upcoming Layoffs' during a backup. Respecting confidentiality means they should:
Report the file to the entire team immediately.
Tell their closest coworker to give them a heads-up.
Open the file to prepare themselves.
Not view the contents and not disclose the file's existence.
Professional Codes of Ethics, like those from ACM or IEEE, serve as:
Legal documents that must be followed.
Marketing tools for professional organizations.
Structured frameworks to guide ethical decision-making.
Optional suggestions for personal behavior.
A common commitment across many professional codes is to:
Share information freely to foster innovation.
Prioritize company interests over all else.
Maximize personal profit from projects.
Avoid harm to others.
A network engineer ensures a new system has no known vulnerabilities to prevent harm to a client. This follows the code principle of:
Respect confidentiality.
Maintain competence.
Avoid harm to others.
Reject kickbacks.
According to the SANS Code, when can you access a coworker's information?
Whenever you believe it is in the company's best interest.
Except as defined by your appointed organizational roles.
Whenever a manager asks you to.
Only if you are curious about their activities.
A manager asks an IT admin to check an employee's emails for signs of job hunting. The ethical action for the admin is to:
Check the emails but not tell anyone.
Refuse unless given a formal request from HR or Legal.
Confront the employee about their job search.
Comply immediately as the manager requested.
IEEE and AITP codes emphasize a professional's responsibility to:
The government.
Their direct manager.
Society.
Shareholders.
The societal responsibility of an IT professional developing a facial recognition system includes:
Keeping the development process completely secret.
Maximizing the algorithm's accuracy at all costs.
Getting the product to market as fast as possible.
Testing for and mitigating racial bias in the system.
Which of the following is NOT a core ethical principle discussed?
Profitability
Accountability
Respect
Integrity
Being truthful about your capabilities, qualifications, and project status is a key part of:
Societal Responsibility
Lawful Conduct
Professional Competence
Integrity
Documenting an incident after fixing an error is primarily an act of:
Competence.
Integrity.
Accountability.
Lawful Conduct.
What does 'maintaining professional competence' help ensure?
Gaining management approval
Avoiding all mistakes
Providing competent and up-to-date service
Higher salary
Protecting sensitive information from unauthorized access falls under which two principles?
Integrity and Competence
Accountability and Integrity
Responsibility and Confidentiality
Lawful Conduct and Societal Responsibility
Considering the broader consequences of the technology you create is an aspect of:
Daily stand-up meetings.
Lawful Conduct.
Professional Competence.
Societal Responsibility.
The lesson concludes that ethical behavior in IT is the foundation of:
Efficiency.
Innovation.
Profit.
Trust.
What should you use as a guide for ethical decision-making in complex situations?
The simplest course of action.
Your immediate personal feelings.
Professional Codes of Ethics.
Advice from any coworker.
