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D333 PRE-ASSESSMENT ETHIC IN
TECHNOLOGY EXAM 2025/2026
BRAND NEW ACTUAL EXAM WITH
ANSWERS.
What is the difference between ethics and morals?
Ethics reflect a societal code of behavior, whereas morals reflect
personal principles.
An IT company holds itself accountable for how its actions
affect its shareholders, consumers, employees, community,
the environment, and suppliers. What is this company
demonstrating?
Corporate social responsibility
A developer creates video games based on real war scenarios
and designs characters that mimic real people from world
events. The video game has content perceived as excessively
violent and rewards players who inflict the most harm on other
players' virtual characters. The developer knows that these are
simulated acts that depict real war scenarios to create an
immersive experience for players but is concerned about the
impact on their moral character.
Which ethical theory does this situation represent?
Virtue
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A project team at an animal welfare agency is using predictive
analytics to help take animals out of abusive environments. The
algorithm the team designed has a false positive rate that is
higher than zero, which means that some animals could be
removed erroneously if the algorithm's recommendations are
followed. The project owner understands that pets may
wrongfully be removed from loving healthy homes but decides
to use the algorithm anyway because it will happen only a small
percentage of the time.
Which ethical theory does this represent?
Consequentialism
A homeowners' association (HOA) installs license plate readers
after an increase in reported crime in the neighborhood. Two
domestic workers petition the HOA, requesting that their data be
deleted to protect their privacy. The HOA considers this but
denies their request, citing the greater need for security
protection for residents.
Which ethical theory does this represent?
Consequentialism
A software sales company is currently struggling with low sales.
The company is aware that one of its competitor's senior sales
managers is dissatisfied with the competitor due to having been
overlooked for a promotion to the position of a vice president
(VP). The company approaches the sales manager and offers
them a position as VP for sales on the condition of bringing the
manager's existing customer list and contacts to the new role.
The sales manager is bound by a noncompete clause.
Which type of decision-making process did the company follow?
Unethical and illegal
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A municipality decides to use the data it has on household water
usage to build an algorithm that can identify welfare fraud. This
would result in a list of potential fraudsters that could be used
to make welfare decisions. Although the municipality is the
rightful owner and processor of the data, citizens have raised
privacy issues with the application. The citizens object that they
have no way of knowing whether they are on the list and have
no possibility of redress if they are.
Which decision-making process did the municipality follow?
Legal but unethical
Which ethical concept is related to the right to use a person's or
an organization's intangible creative activities?
Property
An IT company that specializes in software development has an
organizational structure that consists of a chief executive officer,
chief ethics officer, chief finance officer, and chief operating
officer.
Which of these executives provides the company with vision and
leadership in business conduct?
Chief ethics officer
What is a reason for organizations to pursue corporate social
responsibility (CSR) goals?
Gain goodwill
The marketing department of a financial services institution
asks data scientists to build a consumer profile based on
transaction data. Although company lawyers approve the
request to explicitly signal customers with potential gambling
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addiction problems, the data scientists refuse to build the
profiles.
What describes this request?
Unethical and legal
A police department employee has access to data related to an
ongoing investigation. A local politician whom the employee
supports has come under investigation. The employee accesses
the data relating to the investigation and provides the file to the
politician anonymously.
How should this behavior be classified?
Corruption
A new startup tech company plans to provide secure wireless
access within its office for employees and other trusted visitors.
The company has concerns about competitors eavesdropping or
compromising the connections and obtaining unauthorized
access to the company's intellectual property. The company is
considering using Wireless Protected Access 2 (WPA2) to secure
data in transit.
Which protocol does this wireless protection implement?
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
A Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent monitors a telephone
conversation between a 12-year-old child and the child's stepfather.
The monitoring is part of a criminal investigation. A warrant was
not obtained prior to commencement of the monitoring.
D333 PRE-ASSESSMENT ETHIC IN
TECHNOLOGY EXAM 2025/2026
BRAND NEW ACTUAL EXAM WITH
ANSWERS.
What is the difference between ethics and morals?
Ethics reflect a societal code of behavior, whereas morals reflect
personal principles.
An IT company holds itself accountable for how its actions
affect its shareholders, consumers, employees, community,
the environment, and suppliers. What is this company
demonstrating?
Corporate social responsibility
A developer creates video games based on real war scenarios
and designs characters that mimic real people from world
events. The video game has content perceived as excessively
violent and rewards players who inflict the most harm on other
players' virtual characters. The developer knows that these are
simulated acts that depict real war scenarios to create an
immersive experience for players but is concerned about the
impact on their moral character.
Which ethical theory does this situation represent?
Virtue
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A project team at an animal welfare agency is using predictive
analytics to help take animals out of abusive environments. The
algorithm the team designed has a false positive rate that is
higher than zero, which means that some animals could be
removed erroneously if the algorithm's recommendations are
followed. The project owner understands that pets may
wrongfully be removed from loving healthy homes but decides
to use the algorithm anyway because it will happen only a small
percentage of the time.
Which ethical theory does this represent?
Consequentialism
A homeowners' association (HOA) installs license plate readers
after an increase in reported crime in the neighborhood. Two
domestic workers petition the HOA, requesting that their data be
deleted to protect their privacy. The HOA considers this but
denies their request, citing the greater need for security
protection for residents.
Which ethical theory does this represent?
Consequentialism
A software sales company is currently struggling with low sales.
The company is aware that one of its competitor's senior sales
managers is dissatisfied with the competitor due to having been
overlooked for a promotion to the position of a vice president
(VP). The company approaches the sales manager and offers
them a position as VP for sales on the condition of bringing the
manager's existing customer list and contacts to the new role.
The sales manager is bound by a noncompete clause.
Which type of decision-making process did the company follow?
Unethical and illegal
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A municipality decides to use the data it has on household water
usage to build an algorithm that can identify welfare fraud. This
would result in a list of potential fraudsters that could be used
to make welfare decisions. Although the municipality is the
rightful owner and processor of the data, citizens have raised
privacy issues with the application. The citizens object that they
have no way of knowing whether they are on the list and have
no possibility of redress if they are.
Which decision-making process did the municipality follow?
Legal but unethical
Which ethical concept is related to the right to use a person's or
an organization's intangible creative activities?
Property
An IT company that specializes in software development has an
organizational structure that consists of a chief executive officer,
chief ethics officer, chief finance officer, and chief operating
officer.
Which of these executives provides the company with vision and
leadership in business conduct?
Chief ethics officer
What is a reason for organizations to pursue corporate social
responsibility (CSR) goals?
Gain goodwill
The marketing department of a financial services institution
asks data scientists to build a consumer profile based on
transaction data. Although company lawyers approve the
request to explicitly signal customers with potential gambling
, Page |4
addiction problems, the data scientists refuse to build the
profiles.
What describes this request?
Unethical and legal
A police department employee has access to data related to an
ongoing investigation. A local politician whom the employee
supports has come under investigation. The employee accesses
the data relating to the investigation and provides the file to the
politician anonymously.
How should this behavior be classified?
Corruption
A new startup tech company plans to provide secure wireless
access within its office for employees and other trusted visitors.
The company has concerns about competitors eavesdropping or
compromising the connections and obtaining unauthorized
access to the company's intellectual property. The company is
considering using Wireless Protected Access 2 (WPA2) to secure
data in transit.
Which protocol does this wireless protection implement?
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
A Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent monitors a telephone
conversation between a 12-year-old child and the child's stepfather.
The monitoring is part of a criminal investigation. A warrant was
not obtained prior to commencement of the monitoring.
