Ethics for IT Workers and IT Users - Key Terms

Question 1

A document that stipulates restrictions and practices that a user must agree in order to use organizational computing and network resources.

Answer 1

Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)

Question 2

A group that provides assistance to the board of directors in fulfilling its responsibilities with respect to the oversight of the quality and integrity of the organization’s accounting and reporting practices and controls, including financial statements and reports; the organization’s compliance with legal and regulatory requirements; the qualifications, independence, and performance of the company’s independent auditor; and the performance of the company’s internal audit team.

Answer 2

Audit committee

Question 3

An agreed-upon sets of skills and abilities that all licensed professionals must possess.

Answer 3

Body of knowledge

Question 4

The failure of one party to meet the terms of a contract.

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Breach of contract

Question 5

The failure to act as a reasonable person would act.

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Breach of the duty of care

Question 6

The act of providing money, property, or favors to someone in business or government in order to obtain a business advantage.

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Bribery

Question 7

A trade group that represent the world’s largest software and hardware manufacturers.

Answer 7

BSA | The Software Alliance

Question 8

Indicates that a professional possesses a particular set of skills, knowledge, or abilities, in the opinion of the certifying organization.

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Certification

Question 9

To be in accordance with established policies, guidelines, specifications, or legislation.

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Compliance

Question 10

A conflict between a person’s (or firm’s) self-interest and the interests of a client.

Answer 10

Conflict of interest

Question 11

The obligation to protect people against any unreasonable harm or risk.

Answer 11

Duty of care

Question 12

Hardware or software (or a combination of both) that serves as the first line of defense between an organization’s network and the Internet; a firewall also limits access to the company’s network based on the organization’s Internet-usage policy.

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Firewall

Question 13

An act that makes it a crime to bribe a foreign official, a foreign political party official, or a candidate for foreign political office.

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Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)

Question 14

The crime of obtaining goods, services, or property through deception or trickery.

Answer 14

Fraud

Question 15

A government-issued permission to engage in an activity or to operate a business.

Answer 15

Government license

Question 16

A group within an organization managing the processes, tools, and policies necessary to prevent, detect, document, and counter threats to digital and nondigital information, whether it is in transit, being processed, or at rest in storage.

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Information Security (Infosec) Group

Question 17

The process established by an organization’s board of directors, managers, and IT systems people to provide reasonable assurance for the effectiveness and efficiency of operations, the reliability of financial reporting, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

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Internal control

Question 18

A person who uses a hardware or software product; the term distinguishes end users from the IT workers who develop, install, service, and support the product.

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IT User

Question 19

The failure of one party to perform certain expressed or implied obligations, which impairs or destroys the essence of the contract.

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Material breach of contract

Question 20

The misstatement or incomplete statement of a material fact.

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Misrepresentation

Question 21

Not doing something that a reasonable person would do or doing something that a reasonable person would not do.

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Negligence

Question 22

The guidelines and standards by which the organization must abide.

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Policy

Question 23

Defines the exact instructions for completing each task in a process

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Procedure

Question 24

A collection of tasks designed to accomplish a stated objective.

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Process

Question 25

The principles and core values that are essential to the work of a particular occupational group.

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Professional code of ethics

Question 26

Breach of the duty of care by a professional.

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Professional malpractice

Question 27

A legal standard that defines how an objective, careful, and conscientious person would have acted in the same circumstances.

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Reasonable person standard

Question 28

A legal standard that defendants who have particular expertise or competence are measured against.

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Reasonable professional standard

Question 29

Falsely claiming competence in a skill, usually because that skill is in high demand.

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Resume inflation

Question 30

The concept of having different aspects of a process handled by different people to prevent fraud.

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Separation of duties

Question 31

A trade group that represents the world’s largest software and hardware manufacturers.

Answer 31

Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA)

Question 32

One who applies engineering principles and practices to the design, development, implementation, testing, and maintenance of software.

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Software Engineer

Question 33

Information, generally unknown to the public, that a company has taken strong measures to keep confidential.

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Trade secret

Question 34

The activity of a person, often an employee, revealing information about activity within a private or public organization that is deemed illegal, immoral, illicit, unsafe or fraudulent.

Answer 34

Whistle-blowing