Ch.2 T/F
1. Software piracy in a corporate setting is rarely directly traceable to IT staff members?
F
12. Laws provide a complete guide to ethical behavior.
F
15. Government licensing is generally administered at the federal level in the United States.
F
17. The core body of knowledge for any profession outlines an agreed-upon code of ethics and practices for those who practice in that profession.
F
18. Government licensing of IT workers is common within most of the states of the United States.
F
20. A breach of the duty of care is defined as a failure to conform to the code of ethics of a professional organization.
F
22. Compliance means to be in conformance with a profession's core body of knowledge.
F
23. The internal audit department includes members of the board of directors who determine that the internal systems and controls of the organization are adequate and effective.
F
24. Members of the internal audit team must be expert in detecting and investigating financial statement fraud.
F
3. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has a few dozen lawyers and investigators who prosecute only the 100 or so most egregious cases of software piracy each year.
F
5. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is a legally binding global treaty to fight bribery and corruption.
F
6. The United Nations Convention Against Corruption makes it a crime to bribe a foreign official, a foreign political party official, or a candidate for foreign political office.
F
7. A bribe is a crime even if the payment was lawful under the laws of the foreign country in which it was paid.
F
8. When it comes to distinguishing between bribes and gifts, the perceptions of the donor and recipient almost always coincide.
F
9. To qualify legally as a bribe, the gift or payment must be made directly from donor to recipient.
F
10. Gifts come with no expectation of a future favor for the donor.
T
11. Currently no one IT professional organization has emerged as preeminent, so there is no universal code of ethics for IT workers.
T
13. Certification indicates that a professional possesses a particular set of skills, knowledge, or abilities, in the opinion of the certifying organization.
T
14. Vendor certifications require passing a written exam, which usually contains multiple-choice questions because of legal concerns about whether other types of exams can be graded objectively.
T
16. There are many industry association certifications in a variety of IT-related subject areas.
T
19. From a legal perspective, there is both a reasonable person standard and a reasonable professional standard to decide whether parties owe a duty of care.
T
2. When the Business Software Alliance (BSA) finds cases of software piracy, it can assess heavy monetary penalties.
T
21. While no policy can stop wrongdoers, it can establish boundaries for acceptable and unacceptable behavior and enable management to punish violators.
T
25. A trade secret is information, generally unknown to the public, that a company has taken strong measures to keep confidential.
T
4. There is a potential conflict of interest when IT consultants or auditors recommend their own products and services or those of an affiliated vendor to remedy a problem they have detected.
T
