WGU Ethics-In-Technology Dumps

A company has used Its credit approval system for a long time. A risk evaluation director initiates an update of the data model to make sure it meets the highest ethical standards. Which Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice principle does the director's action represent?

A cloud computing company uses machine learning software to screen the resumes of job seekers. The company's aim is to reduce potential human prejudice in the hiring process. To set up the software and train the machine learning model, the company provides information from its hiring decisions over the past five years. After several months of using the software, the company runs an audit and finds that the software screens out minority job seekers at a much higher rate.

Which behavior is the trained machine learning model displaying?

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?

An engineer is working on a project to manufacture radar processing equipment for the U.S. military. As part of the project contract, all devices must be new. The engineer discovers that the manufacturer has a policy of using refurbished parts. The engineer speaks to their manager about it and is ignored.

What should this engineer do?

I A recruiter for a cybersecurity company is screening candidates for an engineering role by researching the candidates' public social media profiles. The recruiter notes content on one candidate's profile that automatically allows the recruiter to dismiss the candidate.

Which type of content allows the recruiter to legally take this action?

To gain access to the electronic health record of a critically injured patient, an intensive care specialist decided to circumvent privacy policies to save the patient Which decision-ma king process guided the action of the specialist?

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?

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

A software development company's executive management team recently met to review its progress on ethical and social responsibility goals. After the review, the team planned a new set of goals for the upcoming year. The team shared the results of this review and the new goats with the employees and the board of directors.

Which process did the team complete?

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?

A new Al-driven software package helps schools determine the best type of online learning support based on the current racial segments of students. The developer selected zip codes as a method for identifying specific groups.

Which source of bias does this approach introduce into the system?

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?

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?

A customer places an order for a product on an e*commerce site after reviewing the quantity and pricing on the online form. The customer then receives an email confirmation that displays different pricing than the order form. The customer reports the discrepancy to customer service.

Which security practice is this customer addressing?

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?

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

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?

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?

Employee A works as a developer for a software company. Their sibling is also a developer at a competitor company. Both companies are working on a similar application. The sibling's company struggles to get a feature to work, so the sibling copies the source code for the relevant sections of the application from Employee A's laptop after it was left unattended.

How should this behaviorbe classified?