Chapter 2: Ethics for It Workers and IT Users

Question 1

Acceptance Use Policy

Answer 1

A document that stipulates restrictions and practices that a user must agree in order to use organizational computing and network resources.

Question 2

Audit Committee

Answer 2

A group that provides assistance to the board of directors in fulfilling its responsibilities with respect to the oversight of the quality and integrity of the organization’s accounting and reporting practices and controls, including financial statements and reports; the organization’s compliance with legal and regulatory requirements; the qualifications, independence, and performance of the company’s independent auditor; and the performance of the company’s internal audit team.

Question 3

Body Of Knowledge

Answer 3

An agreed-upon sets of skills and abilities that all licensed professionals must possess.

Question 4

Breach of Contract

Answer 4

The failure of one party to meet the terms of a contract.

Question 5

Breach of the duty of care

Answer 5

The failure to act as a reasonable person would act.

Question 6

Bribery

Answer 6

The act of providing money, property, or favors to someone in business or government in order to obtain a business advantage.

Question 7

BSA| The Software Alliance

Answer 7

A trade group that represent the world’s largest software and hardware manufacturers.

Question 8

Certification

Answer 8

Indicates that a professional possesses a particular set of skills, knowledge, or abilities, in the opinion of the certifying organization. Certification can also apply to products (e.g., the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED logo assures that the product has met rigorous interoperability testing to ensure that it will work with other Wi-Fi-certified products) and is generally voluntary.

Question 9

Compliance

Answer 9

To be in accordance with established policies, guidelines, specifications, or legislation.

Question 10

Conflict of Interest

Answer 10

A conflict between a person’s (or firm’s) self-interest and the interests of a client.

Question 11

Duty of Care

Answer 11

The obligation to protect people against any unreasonable harm or risk.

Question 12

Firewall

Answer 12

Hardware or software (or a combination of both) that serves as the first line of defense between an organization’s network and the Internet; a firewall also limits access to the company’s network based on the organization’s Internet-usage policy.

Question 13

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Answer 13

An act that makes it a crime to bribe a foreign official, a foreign political party official, or a candidate for foreign political office.

Question 14

Fraud

Answer 14

The crime of obtaining goods, services, or property through deception or trickery.

Question 15

Government License

Answer 15

A government-issued permission to engage in an activity or to operate a business.

Question 16

Information Security Group (info sec.)

Answer 16

A group within an organization managing the processes, tools, and policies necessary to prevent, detect, document, and counter threats to digital and nondigital information, whether it is in transit, being processed, or at rest in storage.

Question 17

Internal Control

Answer 17

The process established by an organization’s board of directors, managers, and IT systems people to provide reasonable assurance for the effectiveness and efficiency of operations, the reliability of financial reporting, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

Question 18

IT User

Answer 18

A person who uses a hardware or software product; the term distinguishes end users from the IT workers who develop, install, service, and support the product. IT users need the product to deliver organizational benefits or to increase their productivity.

Question 19

Material Breach of Contract

Answer 19

The failure of one party to perform certain expressed or implied obligations, which impairs or destroys the essence of the contract.

Question 20

Negligence

Answer 20

Not doing something that a reasonable person would do or doing something that a reasonable person would not do.

Question 20

Policy

Answer 20

The guidelines and standards by which the organization must abide.

Question 20

Misrepresentation

Answer 20

The misstatement or incomplete statement of a material fact.

Question 20

Procedure

Answer 20

Defines the exact instructions for completing each task in a process.

Question 20

Professional Code of Ethics

Answer 20

The principles and core values that are essential to the work of a particular occupational group.

Question 20

Process

Answer 20

A collection of tasks designed to accomplish a stated objective.

Question 20

Professional Malpractice

Answer 20

Breach of the duty of care by a professional.

Question 20

Reasonable Person Standard

Answer 20

A legal standard that defines how an objective, careful, and conscientious person would have acted in the same circumstances.

Question 21

Resume Inflation

Answer 21

Falsely claiming competence in a skill, usually because that skill is in high demand.

Question 21

Separation of Duties

Answer 21

The concept of having different aspects of a process handled by different people to prevent fraud.

Question 22

Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA)

Answer 22

A trade group that represents the world’s largest software and hardware manufacturers.

Question 23

Software Engineer

Answer 23

One who applies engineering principles and practices to the design, development, implementation, testing, and maintenance of software.

Question 24

Trade Secret

Answer 24

Information, generally unknown to the public, that a company has taken strong measures to keep confidential.

Question 25

Reasonable Professional Standard

Answer 25

A legal standard that defendants who have particular expertise or competence are measured against.

Question 26

Whistle-blowing

Answer 26

A individual who shares information to the public about another individual or organization when they do something illegal/unethical.