CTCD UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS COMPREHENSIVE
STUDY GUIDE
●● Major contracts for information technology projects are monitored
by the _.
Answer: Quality Assurance Team (QAT)
●● Major contracts are reviewed by _.
Answer: Contract Advisory Team (CAT)
●● Procurement
Answer: refers to all aspects of the sourcing activities, including drafting
and issuing the solicitation, evaluation of responses, selection of
successful respondents, the negotiation of contracts, and the actual
purchasing of goods or services.
●● Purchasing
Answer: refers to the mechanical or administrative process of how goods
and services are ordered. Usually described as the transactional function
of the procurement process
●● Nepotism
,Answer: form of conflict of interest that involves an explicit act of using
one's position to favor a relative
●● The two classifications of Nepotism are:
Answer: Consanguinity and Affinity
●● What is a consanguinity relationship?
Answer: one established through bloodlines
includes individuals related by blood to the official or employee
three degrees
1st: Parents, Children
2nd: Grandparents, Grandchildren, Brothers and Sisters
3rd: Great-Grandparents, Great-grandchildren, Nephews and Nieces,
Uncles and Aunts
●● What is a affinity relationship?
Answer: arises by virtue of marriage
includes an officials or employee's spouse and individuals related to the
spouse
, two degrees
1st: spouse, spouse's parents, Children's Spouses, Spouse's children
2nd: Spouse's grandparents, spouses grandchildren, spouse's brothers
and sisters, brothers and sister's spouses
●● Bribery
Answer: if a person intentionally or knowingly offers, confers, or agrees
to confer on another, or solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept any benefit
as consideration for a violation of public servants legal duty or a public
servants decision, opinion, recommendation, vote, or any other exercise
of discretion.
●● T or F, A bribery offense can still occur even if the benefit is offered
after the employee has acting in a manner desired or after the employee
has ceased working for the state
Answer: True
●● Bribery does not occur is the benefit is a political contribution
Answer: True
●● Where do you report suspected fraud, waste or abuse?
Answer: The State Auditor's Office (SAO)
CORRECT ANSWERS COMPREHENSIVE
STUDY GUIDE
●● Major contracts for information technology projects are monitored
by the _.
Answer: Quality Assurance Team (QAT)
●● Major contracts are reviewed by _.
Answer: Contract Advisory Team (CAT)
●● Procurement
Answer: refers to all aspects of the sourcing activities, including drafting
and issuing the solicitation, evaluation of responses, selection of
successful respondents, the negotiation of contracts, and the actual
purchasing of goods or services.
●● Purchasing
Answer: refers to the mechanical or administrative process of how goods
and services are ordered. Usually described as the transactional function
of the procurement process
●● Nepotism
,Answer: form of conflict of interest that involves an explicit act of using
one's position to favor a relative
●● The two classifications of Nepotism are:
Answer: Consanguinity and Affinity
●● What is a consanguinity relationship?
Answer: one established through bloodlines
includes individuals related by blood to the official or employee
three degrees
1st: Parents, Children
2nd: Grandparents, Grandchildren, Brothers and Sisters
3rd: Great-Grandparents, Great-grandchildren, Nephews and Nieces,
Uncles and Aunts
●● What is a affinity relationship?
Answer: arises by virtue of marriage
includes an officials or employee's spouse and individuals related to the
spouse
, two degrees
1st: spouse, spouse's parents, Children's Spouses, Spouse's children
2nd: Spouse's grandparents, spouses grandchildren, spouse's brothers
and sisters, brothers and sister's spouses
●● Bribery
Answer: if a person intentionally or knowingly offers, confers, or agrees
to confer on another, or solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept any benefit
as consideration for a violation of public servants legal duty or a public
servants decision, opinion, recommendation, vote, or any other exercise
of discretion.
●● T or F, A bribery offense can still occur even if the benefit is offered
after the employee has acting in a manner desired or after the employee
has ceased working for the state
Answer: True
●● Bribery does not occur is the benefit is a political contribution
Answer: True
●● Where do you report suspected fraud, waste or abuse?
Answer: The State Auditor's Office (SAO)
