Importance of IT Certifications and Ethical Dilemmas

This essay examines the significance of IT certifications for professionals, highlighting their global recognition and benefits such as building client confidence and validating expertise. It provides an overview of available software certifications in Australia, with a focus on the ISTQB Software Testing Professional Certification. The essay then presents two ethical dilemma scenarios. The first scenario involves a professor facing plagiarism, and the second concerns environmental impact from factory emissions. The essay applies ethical theories like Virtue Ethics and Kantianism to analyze these dilemmas, suggesting appropriate courses of action based on principles of integrity and consideration for others' well-being. References support the arguments, providing context from professional sources and testing boards.

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1. Explain why IT Certification is important for professionals?
IT certifications comes with greater benefits to the holder. Professional certificates makes one
to be held on high professional standards that are recognizable globally. These certifications
in IT such as CCNA gives one a greater opportunity to work at any IT Related company since
the certificates are globally recognised. Some of the benefits to professionals include;
Building of client’s confidence on your work. With IT certifications clients sees professionals
as those of great integrity and high professional standards thus building confidence that the
person will deliver a quality standard product or service [1]. IT Certification also validates
ones expertise and may lead to greater pay or prestige.
2. Briefly explain available software certifications in Australia? Which
certifications are in demand in the IT industry?
There are various software certifications in Australia, offered in various institutions. These
software certifications include; certification in Software Business Analyst, certification in
Software Quality and certification in Software Testing. Among all these software
certifications offered in Australia the most famous one is the ISTQB Software Testing
Professional Certification, which is recognised by the Australia and New Zealand Testing
Board. The ISTQB ranges from ISTQB Advanced Test Analyst courses, ISTQB Advanced
Technical Test Analyst and Manager ISTQB Advanced Test [2].
3. Ethical Dilemma
Scenario 1:
Dr. Smith upon receiving the Iriat’s paper even though Iriat submitted the paper late and the
essay is well written, he fall into an ethical dilemma to whether he should ignore the late
submission rule and award Iriat a Credit or whether he should stick to the rules that dictate
late submissions penalties. Also the fact that Iriat Struggles with English and here she is
submitting a well written essay which is not her usual thing leaves Dr. Smith with so many
questions as to whether Iriat did the work herself or she copied elsewhere? The dilemma
continues when Sarah B tells Dr. Smith that Iriat had borrowed her research paper, retyped it,
and submitted as her own work. Dr. Smith is left in an ethical dilemma as to whether he
should cancel the Pass Mark he gave to Iriat or should just ignore Sarah B.
Scenario 2:
Even though Mitchell H has not broken any law since her factory’s emissions level are within
the law, her actions or the factory emissions level are affecting the nearby environment
which might reader the fish in the lakes and rivers not fit for consumption. She is faced with a
dilemma on whether to incur more cost to implement new technology to reduce emissions or
just ignore the environmental effects since she is within the law limit?

4. Ethical outcomes
Scenario 1
According to Virtue Ethical Theory, Dr. Smith ought to stand firm and protect the integrity of
education by rendering Iriat’s Essay as fail [3]. This is because Iriat’s took somebody else’s
research work and submitted as her own. This amounts to cheating and is unethical behaviour
that interferes with the integrity of the education work. Therefore, he should observe
professionalism by doing what is right as per the utilitarian theory irrespective of the
situation.
Scenario 2
Despite the fact that Mitchell has not broken any law in discharging her factory waste, she
should consider doing unto others what she would want others do unto her. There are people
who depend on the rivers and lakes for food and thus she should consider the well-being of
the others by reducing amount of emissions discharged to the lakes and rivers. She should
uphold Kantianism theory, which suggest that one should consider the outcome of their
actions and act in the right manner despite whether the action is right or wrong.

References
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R. Half, "4 Reasons a Professional Certification Benefits the Entire
Company," Blog, pp. 1-2, 2014.
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Discover, 14 November 2016. [Online]. Available:
http://www.disqover.com.au/. [Accessed 29 September 2017].
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A. P. Christopher Panza, "A SNAPSHOT OF KEY ETHICAL
THEORIES," Philosophy, pp. 1-2, 2016.