IT Certification Exam Questions & Answers

QUESTION 15
What are two outcomes of adherence to a professional code of ethics for individuals, their profession, and society as a whole? Choose 2 answers.

QUESTION 16
Which act prohibits U.S. government agencies from concealing the existence of personal data record-keeping systems?

QUESTION 17
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?

QUESTION 18
What is a Gramm-Leach-BIiley Act (GLBA) financial privacy rule that presents a threat to data privacy?

QUESTION 19
A company needs to fill a specialized, long-term engineering role. The worker in this role needs to work on- site and use a company-provided laptop for security. The company’s corporate code of ethics dictates that it should prioritize economic empowerment in its local community. The company has not been successful in sourcing local candidates.
Which type of worker should the company consider expanding its candtdate pool to include?

QUESTION 20
A company notices a drift in model performance due to suspicious alterations of the source data. It hires a specialist to test the security of its information systems and look for vulnerabilities attackers might have exploited.
Which name describes this specialist?

QUESTION 21
An individualsoils a used television on an e-commerce website without knowing or disclosing that it is damaged Which two ethical problems is the seller engaged in? Choose 2 answers.

QUESTION 22
An auto manufacturer is developing a new line of autonomous vehicles. Multiple accidents, including fatalities, involving competitors’ autonomous vehicles have already occurred. Management is concerned about potential liability, reputational damage, and financial loss. In response, the system safety engineer conducts a review at each stage of the software development process to record, assess, and account for detected issues.
Which type of log is the system safety engineer using?

QUESTION 23
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?

QUESTION 24
An incident handler discovers an unauthorized change in the security key vault’s database file, which caused a disclosure of confidential information. Which ethical issue does this incident pose?

QUESTION 25
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?

QUESTION 26
An underage actor is admitted to a local hospital. A nurse from another department wants to know what the patient’s ailment is. The nurse accesses the patient’s medical record and is subsequently flagged for unauthorized access.
Which law has the nurse violated?

QUESTION 27
A company builds a new artificial intelligence (Al) system that helps address drug and alcohol use disorders by developing an individualized plan to support people withone of these disorders. The system developers load nationwide information from the last 20 years to provide a baseline for the Al to analyze. Upon activating the system, the company receives complaints about bias against minorities with a drug or alcohol use disorder.
What introduced bias into the system?

QUESTION 28
What is the first step in ethical decision-making for an IT professional?

QUESTION 29
Which legislation provides a safe harbor for internet service providers (ISPs) whose customers violate intellectual property rights?