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WGU Ethics-In-Technology WGU Ethics In TechnologyQCO1 Exam Practice Test

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Question 1

A consulting company employs H-1B workers. Even though companies applying for H*1B visas must offer a wage that is at least 95% of the average salary for the occupation, a close review of salarieswithin the consulting firm suggests that its H-1B workers are often paid 20% less on average than those with similar skill sets.

Which loophole is the company using to avoid paying H-1B workers a fair wage?

Options:

A.

Laying off employees with U.S. citizenship to lower the average salary numbers

B.

Classifying an H-1B worker as entry level when they fill a position of an experienced worker

C.

Pressuring H-1B workers to file petitions with the government to allow lower salary

D.

Employing H-1 B workers to work remotely from countries where the cost of living is lower

Question 2

A data scientist selects publicly available demographic data from a limited group of familiar zip codes when training an algorithm. What are two ethical concerns with this approach? Choose 2 answers.

Options:

A.

Privacy violation

B.

Predictive coding

C.

Proxy discrimination

D.

Small sample size

Question 3

An IT company adopts a professional cod© of ethics suggested by a nationally recognized IT professionals organization. Which benefit to the company can be directly derived from adopting a professional code of ethics?

Options:

A.

Guidelines for principled decision-making

B.

An evaluation benchmark

C.

Increased yearly revenue

D.

Decreased company expenditure

Question 4

A robotics company engages an IT firm to deliver a marketing software solution. During the project, the robotics company asks for additional features that were not in the initial contract. The IT firm's project leader is unsure whether it can deliver these features but verbally agrees to the scope change. On delivery, the robotics company notes that several of the additional features are not included and that because of this, the solution is not compatible with certain legacy systems the company did not initially disclose.

Which factor might have mitigated the problem if the IT firm's project leader had abided by a professional code of ethics?

Options:

A.

Minimizing scope creep requests from the customer

B.

Improving decision-making around agreeing to additional scopes

C.

Avoiding the delivery of an incompatible solution

D.

Understanding the legal implications of noncontractual agreements

Question 5

Which principle, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) privacy guidelines, states that people have the right to review their data, challenge its correctness, and have incorrect data changed?

Options:

A.

Individual participation

B.

Purpose specification

C.

Use limitation

D.

Security safeguard

Question 6

A factory manager must decide whether to replace assembly-line workers with robots but is concerned about employees losing their jobs. The factory manager also believes this automation would enhance worker safety, save the factory money, raise corporate profits, and lower the prices of goods produced. The factory manager weighs all possible outcomes and chooses the action that produces the greatest good.

Which ethical theory does this approach represent?

Options:

A.

Deontology

B.

Relativism

C.

Virtue

D.

Consequentialism

Question 7

A company is bidding on a website project for a prospective client. The company knows that the client is going to weigh the time to deliver the project as one of its primary decision factors. The client has advised all bidders that completion time should be no more than three months with a budget of S50.000.

The company knows that with its current resourcing, it cannot complete the project in less than four months. However, it is confident that it will be able to deliver within four months to a high-quality standard and 20% under the set budget. The company advises the client that it would need four months but would be able to complete the project under budget.

What is this behavior considered?

Options:

A.

Ethical and illegal

B.

Unethical and illegal

C.

Unethical and legal

D.

Ethical and legal

Question 8

What is the unintended source of bias in artificial intelligence (Al) algorithms?

Options:

A.

Tainted examples

B.

Excessive validation sample sizes

C.

Human developers

D.

Excessive training sample sizes

Question 9

A university brought legal proceedings against a student who posted negative comments anonymously on the internet about the university's dean. Which type of lawsuit is this?

Options:

A.

Strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP)

B.

Anti-strategic lawsuit against public participation (Anti-SLAPP)

C.

Hate speech

D.

John Doe lawsuit

Question 10

A tech worker's computer acts abnormally shortly after the worker starts their shift. The computer is up-to-date on all relevant patches and updates. The installed antivirus software has not identified any malicious code. During the investigation, the worker discovers that an attacker compromised the system, even though the worker did not engage in any behavior that could have introduced a virus or other external malicious software into the computer.

Which method of attack was used to compromise the worker's machine?

Options:

A.

Blended threat

B.

Trojan horse

C.

Spear phishing

D.

Zero-day exploit

Question 11

A new IT employee has questions about how the organization determines resolutions to issues that impact its values and overarching principles. What should the employee refer to first for guidance?

Options:

A.

Corporate responsibility matrix

B.

Ethical decision-making processes

C.

Code of ethics

D.

Board of directors

Question 12

How can organizations differentiate between ethical decision-making and legal decision-making frameworks?

Options:

A.

Legal decision-making frameworks provide a complete guide to ethical decision-making but go beyond to encompass decision-making tools to employ in situations where the ethical code is not clearly defined or easily applied.

B.

Ethical decision-making frameworks help an organization uphold a code of behavior generally agreed upon by the members of the larger society which the organization operates in. Legal decision-making frameworks help an organization to navigate a set of rules that convey what people can and cannot do.

C.

Ethical decision-making frameworks help an organization navigate a set of rules that convey what people can and cannot do. Legal decisionmaking frameworks help an organization uphold a code of behavior generally agreed upon by members of the larger society which the organization operates in.

D.

Ethical decision-making frameworks provide a complete guide to legal decision-making but go beyond to encompass decision-making tools to employ in situations where the law is not clearly defined or easily applied.

Question 13

An organization plans to hire three external software engineers to build client software to connect its lightweight wireless devices to the cloud. It will do so according to specific terms and a specific duration defined in a legal document. The duration of the work will be six months.

Which workforce category should the organization hire within?

Options:

A.

Full-time employees

B.

In-house expertise

C.

Part-time salaried workers

D.

Independent contractors

Question 14

A large telecommunications company pledged to adopt green computing in everything it does. The telecommunications company hired a consulting firm to help it evaluate, compare, and select supplies based on standard eco-friendly criteria.

What should the consulting firm use to help achieve this goal?

Options:

A.

Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT).

B.

Environmental impact assessment (EIA).

C.

Professional employer organization (PEO)

D.

Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS)

Question 15

A company struggles to maintain project schedules with its current resource capacity. With a new set of corporate goals and restrictions on full-time hires, the company is considering adding contingent workers to help fill the gap.

What is a disadvantage of using contingent workers to support the company's goals?

Options:

A.

Any skills gained during employment will be lost to the company at the project's completion.

B.

Internal business process understanding will be minimal given the temporary nature of the workers.

C.

The company may require the same worker tor other projects.

D.

The company does not have to provide benefits throughout the project's lifecycle.

Question 16

A chief financial officer (CFO) at a major telecommunications company decides to replace a high number of its customer-facing stores with artificial intelligence-enabled telecom booths. The telecom booths will enable current or new subscribers to buy or replace SIM cards or mobile phones on the go. The CFO is concerned about a major reduction in the workforce but believes this move will help grow the company's subscriber base, reduce customer churn, and increase overall company profits.

Which ethical theory does this approach represent?

Options:

A.

Deontology

B.

Care

C.

Consequentialism

D.

Virtue

Question 17

A hacker attacked an organization's server to obtain the health records of a specific employee. The hacker posts the information online as an act of revenge. Which attack did the hacker perform?

Options:

A.

Anonymous expression

B.

Doxing

C.

Hate speech

D.

Libel

Question 18

The retail store manager of a telecommunications service provider has been manually entering the data record of device returns into the company's device database every time a subscriber swaps their old phone for a new one. A recent internal audit revealed that several device records are missing from the device database.

Which aspect of data management should the store employ to avoid this situation?

Options:

A.

Encryption

B.

Collection

C.

Availability

D.

Accuracy

Question 19

An organization creating a new consumer-profiling software tool has concerns about the software's ability to accurately capture and process data. The team decides to use an iterative approach to write the code, allowing for continuous testing and adjustment of requirements. The organization believes this will help ensure the software's data collection capabilities are both efficient and accurate.

Which methodology has the organization employed?

Options:

A.

Total quality management

B.

Waterfall development

C.

Quality assurance

D.

Agile development