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Course Name: Ethics in Engineering Practice
Assignment - Week 7
TYPE OF QUESTION: MCQ/MSQ
Number of questions: 10 Total marks: 10 X 1 = 10
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QUESTION 1:
Ethical subjectivism holds that whether a certain act is ____________ in a given situation is
determined by whether the agent performing the act believes the act to be right or wrong.
a) Right or wrong
b) Legal or not
c) Acceptable or not
d) Justified or not
Correct Answer: a
Right or wrong
Reason: Correct answer is a, ‘right and wrong’, refer slide 7. It cannot be legal as ethics
have nothing to do with law at a broader level. Also, it cannot be justified as ‘justified to
whom’, no clarity is this regard.
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QUESTION 2:
__________ is the ability to immediately recognize what is going on in a situation.
a) Stimulation
b) Power
c) Both of the above
d) None of the above
Correct Answer: d
None of the above
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Reason: Right answer is Intuition, as this is not given as an option, the answer in this
situation is none of the above. See slide 11.
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QUESTION 3:
State whether the following is True or False.
Ethical subjectivism cannot be handled by using ethical theories, there is indeed no way of
handling the issue in question.
a) True
b) False
Correct Answer: b
False
Reason: It is false because ethical theories can be used for handling the issues of ethical
subjectivism. Refer Slide 8.
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QUESTION 4:
State whether the following is True or False.
Moral responsibility never goes beyond official responsibility.
a) True
b) False
Correct Answer: b
False
Reason: The statement is self-explanatory; our moral responsibility goes beyond an office
space and indeed operates in our life at both personal and professional facets.
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QUESTION 5:
For professionals or their professional practice to be trustworthy is a matter of both ethics and
__________.
a) Completion
b) Competence
c) Correspondence
d) None of the above
Correct Answer: b
Competence
Reason: Refer slide 34.
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QUESTION 6:
The central problem for software engineers and others who design and test the software is that of
creating a _____________________.
a) Bug-free software
b) Novel software
c) Inexpensive
d) None of the above
Correct Answer: a
Bug-free software
Reason: See slide 44. It is not an engineer’s central problem to create an inexpensive or
novel software, to be functional and to be sturdy in terms of usage it should be bug free.
How about a novel or inexpensive software which is not bug free and does not works
properly, most likely would be rejected.
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QUESTION 7:
When an engineer takes a serious concern outside his/her organization, which is technically also
referred to as whistle blowing, in a sense ________________.
a) Marks an organizational achievement
b) Marks an organizational failure
c) Marks a manager’s suspicion
d) None of the above
Correct Answer: b
Marks an organizational failure
Reason: It marks an organizational failure because it indicates that issue was not resolved
within an organization when shared with Top management or someone at a higher level
and or organization is doing some actions which are not acceptable or not ethically correct.
Refer slide 48.
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QUESTION 8:
Engineers’ designs, data, records, and notes referring exclusively to an employer’s work are an
_____________ property.
a) Engineer’s
b) Employer’s
c) Both Engineer’s and Employer’s
d) None of the above
Correct Answer: b
Employer’s
Reason: It is an employer’s property and it does not belong to an engineer. Thus, correct
answer is b. Refer slide 59.
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QUESTION 9:
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State whether the following is True or False.
Ethical evaluation is judgment about the extent to which the object of the evaluation is good or
bad in legal terms.
a) True
b) False
Correct Answer: b
False
Reason: False because in majority of cases no aspect of legality exists here.
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QUESTION 10:
State whether the following is True or False.
Ideas can never be copyrighted.
a) True
b) False
Correct Answer: a
True
Reason : See slide 61.
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