Question: What term describes a set of rules that governs the behavior of employees within an organization?

Answer Options:

Code of conduct
Ethics policy
Compliance program
Regulatory guidelines

Answer: Code of conduct

 

Question: Which of the following is the term for a violation of the rights of others that leads to civil liability?

Answer Options:

Crime
Tort
Infringement
Malpractice

Answer: Tort

 

Question: What term refers to the protection of a company’s secrets that give it a competitive advantage?

Answer Options:

Trade secret
Confidential information
Intellectual property
Proprietary information

Answer: Trade secret

 

Question: A vendor certification:

Answer Options:

requires vendors to pass lengthy essay exams.
may focus too narrowly on the technical details of the vendor’s technology.
has no effect on an IT worker’s salary and career prospects.
usually does not require the purchase of expensive training material and course instruction.

Answer: may focus too narrowly on the technical details of the vendor’s technology.

 

Question: Which of the following is defined as not doing something that a reasonable person would do or doing something that a reasonable person would not do?

Answer Options:

software piracy
professional malpractice
breach of the duty of care
negligence

Answer: negligence

 

Question: Compliance means to be in conformance with a profession’s core body of knowledge.

Answer Options:

False
True

Answer: True

 

Question: Which of the following states the principles and core values that are essential to the work of a particular occupational group?

Answer Options:

manual of style
mission statement
professional code of ethics
work statement

Answer: professional code of ethics

 

Question: At which level is licensing generally administered?

Answer Options:

local
state
federal
association

Answer: state

 

Question: The goal of the standards set by the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is to prevent companies from:

Answer Options:

making facilitating payments for obtaining permits or licenses.
creating relationships between IT workers and suppliers.
providing misrepresentations of a material fact.
using slush funds or other means to disguise payments to officials.

Answer: using slush funds or other means to disguise payments to officials.

 

Question: A hardware or software device that serves as a barrier between a company and the outside world and limits access to the company’s network based on the organization’s Internet usage policy is known as which of the following?

Answer Options:

firewall
router
hub
bridge

Answer: firewall

 

Question: While no policy can stop wrongdoers, it can establish boundaries for acceptable and unacceptable behavior and enable management to punish violators.

Answer Options:

True
False

Answer: True

 

Question: The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) makes it a crime to do which of the following?

Answer Options:

pay an official to perform some official function faster
bribe a foreign official
make facilitating payments
make lawful payments to a foreign official

Answer: bribe a foreign official

 

Question: In 1972, which organization recommended that publicly held organizations establish audit committees?

Answer Options:

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP)
SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security (SANS) Institute
National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES)

Answer: Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

 

Question: Government licensing of IT workers is common within most of the states of the United States.

Answer Options:

False
True

Answer: False

 

Question: After a six-year H-1B visa expires, a foreign professional can convert their H-1B visa into which of the following?

Answer Options:

permanent H-1B visa
U.S. citizenship
resident alien
green card

Answer: green card

 

Question: Which of the following is a part of the False Claims Act that allows a private citizen to file a suit in the name of the U.S. government, charging fraud by government contractors and other entities who receive or use government funds?

Answer Options:

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
roving wiretap provision
qui tam provision
Affordable Care Act

Answer: qui tam provision

 

Question: A situation in which two employers have actual or potential legal rights and duties with respect to the same employee or group of employees is called which of the following?

Answer Options:

a coemployment relationship
outsourcing
contingent employment
temporary staffing

Answer: a coemployment relationship

 

Question: Violators of the False Claims Act are liable for how many times the dollar amount for which the government was defrauded?

Answer Options:

five
four
two
three

Answer: three