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College of Information Technology Education

GEE 002 – General Education Elective 2

Preliminary Period
Introduction to Ethics

Name: SAN GABRIEL, BAMBI S. Date: March 29, 2022

Program / Section: BSCE Instructor: MR. BENJAMIN GANDEZA JR.
Assessment Task: ASSIGNMENT 2.1

Instructions:
- Read the questions carefully.
- Provide your answer that will satisfy the requirements

As an initiation into the study of ethics, carefully read each of the following scenarios. After reflection, come
up with your own answer to each of the questions.

Scenario 1:

Alexis, a gifted high school student, wants to become a doctor. Because she comes from a poor family, she
will need a scholarship in order to attend college. Some of her classes require students to do extra research
projects in order to get an A. Her high school has a few older PCs, but there are always long lines of students
waiting to use them during the school day. After school, she usually works at a part-time job to help support
her family. One evening Alexis visits the library of a private college a few miles from her family’s apartment,
and she finds plenty of unused PCs connected to the Internet. She surreptitiously looks over the shoulder of
another student to learn a valid login/password combination. Alexis returns to the library several times a
week, and by using its PCs and printers she efficiently completes the extra research projects, graduates from
high school with straight A’s, and gets a full-ride scholarship to attend a prestigious university.

Questions:
1. Did Alexis do anything wrong?
What Alexis did is wrong. It is not okay to steal a private information of other student, to use the
PC’s and printers that she is not clearly an official student of the college.
2. Who benefited from Alexis’s course of action?
She benefited for her own actions.
3. Who was hurt by Alexis’s course of action?
Of course, the solely owner of the information that Alexis used to open the PC’s.
4. Did Alexis have an unfair advantage over her high school classmates?
Yes. It is unfair to other students that also aims the straight A’s to get a full-ride scholarship to
attend a prestigious university that waits in line for many hours just to use a pc in her attending university.
Scenario 2:

You are the senior software engineer at a start-up company developing an exciting new product that will allow
salespeople to generate and email sales quotes and customer invoices from their smartphones. Your
company’s sales force has led a major corporation to believe your product will be available next week.
Unfortunately, at this point, the software still contains quite a few bugs. The leader of the testing group has
reported that all of the known bugs appear to be minor, but it will take another month of testing for his team
to be confident the product contains no catastrophic errors. Because of the fierce competition in the
smartphone software industry, it is critical that your company be “first to market.” To the best of your
knowledge, a well-established company will release a similar product in a few weeks. If its product appears
first, your start-up company will probably go out of business.

Questions:
1. Should you recommend the release of the product next week?
When large IT businesses release their applications or services, they all have some minor problems
that have been refined over many versions and upgrades. From hardware items like iPhones, which continue
to be released with some or all flaws in the hardware or firmware, to software, this has always been the case.
So, by all means, they should not risk going out of business and deploy their app.

2. Who will benefit if the company follows your recommendation?

Obviously, the company that I work with will benefit for my decisions. Moreover, numerous
stakeholders inside the organization would gain from the launch's eventual success.

3. Who will be harmed if the company follows your recommendation?

The users, consumers and/or customers, since we are launching a bug-infested product. We are still
unsure of the gravity of the situation. It will be a major issue if hackers can use it to steal personal information
and money.

4. Do you have an obligation to any group of people that may be affected by your decision?
Yes, because I am the senior software engineer. It is the responsibility of the senior to handle the
results that will occur by my decisions. Releasing the software with some problems may affect our users and
it may be a reason to lose a lot of customer.

5. What additional information, if any, would help you answer the previous questions?
The beta version could save the corporation from delivering the software to its users. Because this
version is in beta, users are informed that it contains a few minor issues.