Deck 2: Computing Professions and Professional Ethics

Question 1

The ____ Project defines the word 'profession' very broadly.

A) Good Works
B) Hard Works
C) Pro Works
D) Ideal Works

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Davis defines profession in terms of _______ issues.

A) health
B) legal
C) mental
D) moral

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Under Davis' model, being a university student is a profession.

Answer 3

True
All university students operate under codes of conduct; Davis' model defines a profession in terms of moral issues.

Question 4

In Kultgen's wheel, the ____ represents those occupations that are never considered professional.

A) outer circle
B) left spoke
C) center (axle)
D) inner rim

Question 5

Toyota recalled 133,000 Prius hybrid automobiles in the United States in March 2010 because of a ____ problem with the braking system.

A) software
B) hardware
C) firmware
D) malware

Question 6

'____' is not one of the forms of ethical standards in Davis' model.

A) Principles
B) Laws
C) Rules
D) Ideals

Question 7

Neither the ACM Code of Ethics nor the ACM/IEEE Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice provides the basis of a profession according to _____________.

A) John Kultgen
B) Michael Bayles
C) The Professional Cotton Pickers Association
D) Michael Davis

Question 8

The ____ radiation machine killed three people and injured several others in the mid-80s.

A) Turbo-28
B) Thyroid-25
C) Therapy-34
D) Therac-25

Question 9

John Kultgen's wheel has ____ attributes that are deemed necessary for a vocation to be considered a profession.

A) 20
B) 14
C) 3
D) 19

Question 10

All forms of journalism fit in with Bayles' three attributes of a profession.

Question 11

New physicians are administered the _______________ before they are accepted into their profession.

A) Hippocratic Oath
B) Hypocritic Oaf
C) Hypodermic Loaf
D) Vow to Practice

Question 12

According to Davis' model, ________ are the things we must not do to obey the rules.

A) lies
B) cons
C) prohibitions
D) sins

Question 13

Asimov's ____ laws for his imaginary robots are arranged in terms of priority.

A) two
B) three
C) four
D) five

Question 14

According to Davis' model, ________ are the things we must do to obey the rules.

A) jobs
B) tasks
C) requirements
D) obligations

Question 15

____ is the only state in America that once conducted an effort to license computer scientists.

A) California
B) Washington
C) Texas
D) New York

Question 16

Medicine has most, but not all, of Kultgen's core attributes of a profession.

Question 17

In Kultgen's wheel, the ____ represents the standard professions of law and medicine.

A) outer rim
B) left spoke
C) center (axle)
D) inner rim

Question 18

There is a single definition of professionalism that has become accepted by everyone.

Question 19

Law has all of Kultgen's thirteen core attributes of a profession.

Question 20

Any business that involves the sale of software is subject to _________ if a customer is harmed as a result of the faulty software.

A) criminal malfeasance
B) dissolution
C) introspection
D) a lawsuit

Question 21

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.Ideals
f.Principles
b.Ethics
g.Association for Computing Machinery
c.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
h.Michael Bayles
d.Isaac Asimov
i.Moral Ideal
e.Rules
(according to Davis) truths that are to be consistently maintained unless there is a compelling reason to do otherwise; there are eight of these in the ACM/IEEE Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice: public, client and employer, product, judgment, management, profession, colleagues, and self

Question 22

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.Ideals
f.Principles
b.Ethics
g.Association for Computing Machinery
c.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
h.Michael Bayles
d.Isaac Asimov
i.Moral Ideal
e.Rules
(according to Davis) a set of morally permissible standards of a group that each member of the group (at his/her rational best) wants every other member to follow, even if their doing so would mean that he/she must do the same

Question 23

Which of these is not, according to Bayles, one of the common features present in most professions?

A) college education
B) autonomy in one's work
C) organization of members
D) certification or licensing

Question 24

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.Ideals
f.Principles
b.Ethics
g.Association for Computing Machinery
c.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
h.Michael Bayles
d.Isaac Asimov
i.Moral Ideal
e.Rules
the world's first scientific and educational computing society; founded in 1947

Question 25

The definition of 'professional' provided by ______________, according to the book, relates most directly to our interests in the ethical responsibilities of professionals.

A) Michel Foucault
B) Michael Bayles
C) Richard Posner
D) Michael Davis

Question 26

If you violate the __________ code of ethics, it doesn't matter who pays your salary or what your employer's codes and policies are; it is you who are guilty of a breach of ethics.

A) barbers'
B) flight attendants'
C) butchers'
D) physicians'

Question 27

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.Ideals
f.Principles
b.Ethics
g.Association for Computing Machinery
c.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
h.Michael Bayles
d.Isaac Asimov
i.Moral Ideal
e.Rules
a non-profit professional association headquartered in the United States that is dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence; the institute has over 400,000 members

Question 28

____________________ is a research project at Harvard that examines how young people deal with ethical problems in their professions.

Question 29

The ______________ and the ACM Code of Ethics are the best-known codes for software engineers in the United States.

A) IEEE Chart of Morals and Right Practices
B) ACM/IEEE Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice
C) OEEE Computer Society's Code of Professional Conduct
D) Harvard School of Education New Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct

Question 30

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.Ideals
f.Principles
b.Ethics
g.Association for Computing Machinery
c.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
h.Michael Bayles
d.Isaac Asimov
i.Moral Ideal
e.Rules
(according to Davis) a state of affairs that, though not morally required, every rational person at his/her rational best wants everyone else to approach, all else being equal; moreover, everyone wants that so much that they are willing to reward, assist, or at least praise such conduct if that is the price for others to do the same

Question 31

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.Ideals
f.Principles
b.Ethics
g.Association for Computing Machinery
c.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
h.Michael Bayles
d.Isaac Asimov
i.Moral Ideal
e.Rules
(according to Davis' model) ethical standards that tell us certain things we must do and certain things we must not do

Question 32

____________________ is a term commonly used to describe a concept that has a meaning with unclear boundaries.

Question 33

__________________ is a professor at the University of Missouri, Columbia, who presents a wheel of twenty attributes that all professions 'should' have.

Question 34

The ____________ Computer Society has created their own Code of Professional Conduct with eight tenets for their members to abide by.

A) New Zealand
B) Australia
C) Indonesia
D) Oceania

Question 35

For every computer system, there is at least one person who has access to all its files. That person, usually called a(n) _________________, has the authority to move, copy, and delete any or all files on the system.

Question 36

According to Michael Davis, every profession needs to have a code of ______________ in order for it to be considered a profession.

Question 37

The definition of 'professional' that includes the most attributes is that of ____________.

A) Michael Bayle's definition
B) The Good Works Project's definition
C) Michael Davis' definition
D) Kultgen's wheel

Question 38

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.Ideals
f.Principles
b.Ethics
g.Association for Computing Machinery
c.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
h.Michael Bayles
d.Isaac Asimov
i.Moral Ideal
e.Rules
a philosopher who argues that all professions require extensive training, involve significant intellectual effort, and provide an important service to society

Question 39

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.Ideals
f.Principles
b.Ethics
g.Association for Computing Machinery
c.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
h.Michael Bayles
d.Isaac Asimov
i.Moral Ideal
e.Rules
(according to Davis' model) goals that are inherently good to achieve, although failing to achieve them is not necessarily wrong

Question 40

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.Ideals
f.Principles
b.Ethics
g.Association for Computing Machinery
c.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
h.Michael Bayles
d.Isaac Asimov
i.Moral Ideal
e.Rules
a well-known science fiction writer who wrote a series of stories about robots that were constructed with built-in laws

Question 41

What are a few of the challenges of creating a set of standards for members of a particular profession to follow?

Question 42

What does Davis mean when he says that a professional "puts profession first"?

Question 43

According to Michael Davis, what is a profession?

Question 44

In Isaac Asimov's series of robot stories, what were the laws that made up each of the robots' essential beings?

Question 45

How do ideals differ from rules?

Question 46

Why would Antonio's actions in reading section 2.6, "Going into Business," be considered moral from an act utilitarian standpoint?

Question 47

What are Bayles' three required attributes of a profession?

Question 48

Generally, what are the three components for establishing one's credentials for a profession?

Question 49

Explain one way the ACM Code of Ethics is flawed.

Question 50

Explain the ACM's opinion regarding software engineering as a discipline, and its reasons for withdrawing from an initiative with the IEEE that helped define a suitable body of knowledge for software engineers.