Professional Ethics in Engineering MCQ Questions and Answers in Civil Engineering

Question. Values related to love is
(a) forgiveness
(b) trust
(c) loyalty
(d) universal love

Answer : A

Question. builds character
(a) love
(b) social skills
(c) friendship
(d) perseverance

Answer : C

Question. refers to learning the service policies, procedures, norms, and conditions, other than „the technical trade practices
(a) work ethics
(b) service learning
(c) integrity
(d) truth

Answer : A

Question. An individual may exhibit by voting, volunteering, and organizing welfare groups and meetings.
(a) service learning
(b) ethics
(c) non-violence
(d) civic virtues

Answer : C

Question. In courage, the thrust is on the adequacy of the physical strength
(a) social
(b) physical
(c) intellectual
(d) self

Answer : A

Question. Men give importance to moral rule
(a) kohlberg‟s theory
(b) carol gilligan‟s theory
(c) darwins theory
(d) rigid theory

Answer : B

Question. Engineer has a responsibility to make regular inspections in a factory shops.
(a) safety
(b) production
(c) maintanence
(d) quality

Answer : A

Question. Virtue Theory proposed by Mac Intyre
(a) john locke
(b) (a)i. melden‟s
(c) mac intyre
(d) immanuel kant

Answer : C

Question. defined as, decisions and actions exercised on the basis of moral concern for other people and recognition of good moral reasons.
(a) moral integrity
(b) moral value
(c) moral quality
(d) moral autonomy

Answer : A

Question. It is important to be at work………………………………. every day and on time unless you are sick or have a family emergency.
(a) appearance
(b) attendance
(c) attitude
(d) respect

Answer : B

Question. If you don’t have …………………………………., you can really get in trouble for lying, cheating or deceiving others.
(a) communication
(b) cooperation
(c) honesty
(d) integrity

Answer : C

Question. …………… work ethic is important because when you are at work, you are expected to perform your duties without wasting time or getting paid for doing very little.
(a) loyalty
(b) organizational skills
(c) productivity
(d) respect

Answer : C

Question. Ethics & Law overlap. This is called…
(a) yellow area
(b) white area
(c) black area
(d) grey area

Answer : A

Question. The term ……………………… refers to principles, values and beliefs that define right and wrong behaviour.
(a) customer satisfaction
(b) empowerment
(c) innovation
(d) ethics

Answer : D

Question. Truthfulness in marketing communications is an example of:
(a) ethics
(b) business ethics
(c) marketing ethics
(d) corporate social responsibility

Answer : C

Question. are moral and legal rights that are obtained by the status of being employee.
(a) human rights
(b) employee rights
(c) employer rights
(d) professional rights

Answer : B

Question. permits people to have fully independent ownership for their innovation.
(a) standards
(b) right to act
(c) intellectual property
(d) right to equal

Answer : A

Question. is a process of moving technology to a new setting and implementing it there
(a) globalization
(b) standardization
(c) technology transfer
(d) appropriate technology

Answer : A

Question. is the study of moral perspectives, beliefs, or attitudes concerning those issues.
(a) environmental ethics
(b) computer ethics
(c) business ethics
(d) duty ethics

Answer : C

Question. means offering a price, and get something in return for the service offered
(a) advertising
(b) competitive bidding
(c) contingency fee
(d) bribe

Answer : D

Question. NSPE stands for
(a) national society for provisional engineers
(b) national society of professional engineers
(c) national society of provisional ethics
(d) national society of professional ethics

Answer : A

Question. The organizations may practice laws of the home country, with out adjustment to the host culture. This stand is called
(a) morally false
(b) ethical imbalance
(c) ethical balance
(d) overpopulated

Answer : C

Question. It means offering a price, and get something in return for the service offere(d) The organizations have a pool of engineers. The expertise can be shared and the bidding is made more realisti(c)
(a) contingency fee
(b) competitive bidding
(c) advertising
(d) safety and client’s needs

Answer : D

Question. A …….……is a set of principles that people hold themselves to or that are held by organizations or groups.
(a) code of ethics
(b) code of honor
(c) ethical perspective
(d) persuasive tactic

Answer : C

Question. is the degree to which others can depend on us. Like reputation, it can take a lifetime to build and only seconds to destroy.
(a) likability
(b) persuasiveness
(c) reliability
(d) eloquence

Answer : B

Question. Human values are
(a) right conduct
(b) peace
(c) truth
(d) all the above mentioned

Answer : D

Question. Values related to peace is
(a) reverence
(b) perseverance
(c) self-respect
(d) sympathy

Answer : C

Question. continually the progress and gaining new knowledge are needed before, during, and after execution of project
(a) experiment
(b) monitoring
(c) engineering
(d) planning

Answer : B

Question. The term Accountability means:
(a) willingness to submit one‟s actions to moral scrutiny and be responsive to the assessment of others
(b) the willingness to develop the skill and put efforts needed to reach the best balance possible among those considerations
(c) )conscientious commitment to live by moral values
(d) being sensitive to full range of moral values and responsibilities relevant to the prevailing situation

Answer : A

Question. when enforced effectively produce benefits.
(a) globalization
(b) standardization
(c) © both a & b
(d) good laws

Answer : A

Question. A written statement of policies and principles that guides the behaviour of all employees is called
(a) code of ethics
(b) word of ethics
(c) © ethical dilemma
(d) work standards

Answer : C

Question. The Primary aspects of codes of ethics is to provide the basic framework for for a profession.
(a) codes of conduct
(b) ethical judgment
(c) standards
(d) ethical principals

Answer : D

Question. A written statement of policies and principles that guides the behaviour of all employees is called
(a) codes of ethics
(b) word of ethics
(c) ethical dilemma
(d) none of the above

Answer : C

Question. The conditions referred to as „safe exit‟ is/are:
(a) the product, when it fails, should fail safely
(b) the product, when it fails, can be abandoned safely
(c) the user can safely escape the product
(d) all the above

Answer : B

Question. is concerned with the attitudes, emotions, and a sense of personal identity
(a) collegiality
(b) agency loyalty (c)attitude loyalty
(d) supreme loyalty

Answer : A

Question. is done by the trade union for improving the economic interests of the worker members
(a) authority
(b) loyalty
(c) collective bargaining
(d) collegiality

Answer : A

Question. Values related to non-violence is
(a) tolerance
(b) happiness
(c) optimism
(d) ingenuity

Answer : A

Question. is defined as the unity of thought, word and deed (honesty) and open mindedness
(a) morals
(b) ethics
(c) values
(d) integrity

Answer : D

Question. may be defined as the non-paid activity
(a) service learning
(b) ethics
(c) non-violence
(d) integrity

Answer : A

Question. To , one should start install peace within
(a) live peacefully
(b) respect for others
(c) be honest
(d) be courage

Answer : C

Question. Demonstrate your own and spirituality in all your action
(a) education
(b) property
(c) self-knowledge
(d) wealth

Answer : D

Question. The engineer as a save the society from poverty, illiteracy, wastage, inefficiency, ill health .
(a) guardian
(b) bureaucratic servant
(c) savior
(d) social enabler

Answer : A

Question. It consists of assigned tasks at the place of employment and achieving the objectives.
(a) moral responsibility
(b) causal responsibility
(c) legal responsibility
(d) job responsibility

Answer : B

Question. virtues are fundamental and necessary in exercising moral responsibility_
(a) self-direction
(b) team-work
(c) proficiency virtues
(d) cardinal virtues

Answer : C

Question. It seeks to identify and justify the morally-desirable norms or standards that should guide individuals and groups
(a) normative inquiry
(b) conceptual inquiry
(c) descriptive inquiry
(d) factual inquiry

Answer : A

Question. Strong …………………………………….. means you have a high sense of moral and ethical behavior that earns respect of others.
(a) cooperation
(b) confidence
(c) attitude
(d) character

Answer : C

Question. It is always important to……………………. yourself, others and the place where you work.
(a) appearance
(b) cooperate
(c) communicate
(d) respect

Answer : C

Question. A written statement of policies and principles that guides the behaviour of all employees is called
(a) code of ethics
(b) word of ethics
(c) ethical dilemma
(d) none of the above

Answer : C

Question. is a personality attribute that measures the degree to which people believe they control their own fate.
(a) locus of control
(b) culture
(c) values
(d) none of the above

Answer : C

Question. may be committed by wrong actions of a person through one’s lawful employment .
(a) moonlighting
(b) actual conflict of interest
(c) apparent conflict of interest
(d) occupational crime

Answer : C

Question. is defined as conveying information by an employee on an important moral problem to somebody in a position to take actions on the problem.
(a) affirmative actions
(b) whistle blowing
(c) preferential treatment
(d) integrity

Answer : A

Question. is a wide identity of specific good and services, permitting differences to be made among different trades.
(a) trademark
(b) copyright
(c) trade secret
(d) patents

Answer : A

Question. Flixborough accident in 1974 in U.K. when certain modifications carried out in the plant led to the leakage and explosion of
(a) propylene
(b) poly chloride
(c) cyclohexane
(d) sodium hydroxide

Answer : A

Question. is defined as formulation and justification of policies, for ethical use of computers.
(a) environmental ethics
(b) computer ethics
(c) business ethics
(d) duty ethics

Answer : C

Question. is required to exhibit the responsibility of confidentiality just as they do in the consulting roles
(a) expert witness
(b) eye witness
(c) hired guns
(d) consulting engineers

Answer : A

Question. The term „appropriate‟ should emphasize the and environmental protection of the host countries, and this need to be addressed while transferring technology
(a) social experimentation
(b) high technology
(c) social acceptability
(d) genetically modified

Answer : B

Question. The computers are to be protected against theft, fire, and physical damage. This can be achieved by proper insurance on the assets.
(a) physical security
(b) logical security
(c) absence
(d) none of the above

Answer : C

Question. The word “Ethics” comes from
(a) ethos
(b) eternity
(c) elementary
(d) essentiality

Answer : A

Question. are beliefs and attitudes we have that can actually conflict with our ethical decisions.
(a) morals
(b) principles
(c) virtues
(d) values

Answer : A

Question. is concerned with principles and practices of morals
(a) ethics
(b) values
(c) morality
(d) norms

Answer : A

Question. Values related to right conduct is
(a) curiosity
(b) self-help skills
(c) friendship
(d) loyalty

Answer : B

Question. The project is usually executed in
(a) partial ignorance
(b) standard experiment
(c) engineering experiment
(d) experiment

Answer : C

Question. includes being answerable for meeting specific obligations.
(a) conscientious
(b) commitment
(c) accountability
(d) responsibility

Answer : B

Question. is discourage to act immorally.
(a) honesty
(b) deterrence
(c) © discipline
(d) human values

Answer : C

Question. Moral responsibility of engineers is not merely following the _ and their emphasis should go beyond that, especially during the technological development activities.
(a) laws
(b) rules
(c) © practice
(d) all the above

Answer : A

Question. In method , various parts of components of the systems and their modes are studie(d)
(a) fault tree analysis
(b) event tree analysis
(c) fmea
(d) scenario analysis

Answer : A

Question. is the involvement of people in risky actions, although they know that these actions are unsafe
(a) voluntary risk
(b) involuntary risk
(c) faulty risk
(d) emergency risk

Answer : A

Question. is the authority exercised within the organization
(a) agency authority
(b) institutional authority
(c) expert authority
(d) attitude authority

Answer : A

Question. is available and accessed by virtue of privilege.
(a) privileged information
(b) proprietary information
(c) confidential information
(d) collective information

Answer : A

Question. The person is the ethical person.
(a) moral
(b) kind
(c) honest
(d) virtuous

Answer : D

Question. One is unable to choose between two good moral solutions
(a) vaguenes
(b) conflicting reasons
(c) disagreement
(d) refuse bribe

Answer : A

Question. Primarily responsibility implies duty with care and efforts.
(a) general moral capacity
(b) obligations
(c) accountability
(d) characteristic quality

Answer : A

Question. It is important to have a good to be successful in your career.
(a) appearance
(b) attendance
(c) attitude
(d) respect

Answer : D