Ethics-In-Technology Exam Dumps - WGU Ethics In TechnologyQCO1

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?

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?

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?

An organization decides to provide its employees with additional parental leave benefits that exceed legal requirements. Which concept is the organization acting on to support employees?

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?

Aninsurance company develops an artificial intelligence (Al) system to manage claims automatically. Although this technology benefits most customers, people from neighborhoods associated with a low socioeconomic status find it harder to get their claims approved. The company decides to keep using the system.

Which ethical theory justifies the company to come to this decision?

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 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?

A factory manager must decide whether to replace assembly-line workers with robots but is concerned about employees losing their jobs. The factory manager also believes this automation would enhance worker safety, save the factory money, raise corporate profits, and lower the prices of goods produced. The factory manager weighs all possible outcomes and chooses the action that produces the greatest good.

Which ethical theory does this approach represent?

Which data retention practice complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?

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

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?

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?

Which action can IT leaders take to encourage ethical behavior in their organizational culture?

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?

After Alliah Company and Quiet Flag Industries signed an exclusive data exchange deal, Alliah Company received a better offer from Endothon Company. Despite legal obligations. Alliah Company signs a deal with Endothon Company and immediately ceases activities with Quiet Flag Industries.

Which ethical issue is Alliah Company engaging in by signing the deal with Endothon Company and ceasing activities with Quiet Flag Industries?