Data Integrity/Ethics Test

Each laboratory will be given 30 days to complete the course and email the online test to NYAAEL. Each test will be graded and if a passing grade is achieved, a certificate will be sent by return mail.

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1. Ethics training is important because: (check all that apply)

 a. It is a requirement of state certification programs b. It encourages high personal integrity c. Evidence that employees understand their ethical requirements needs to be documented d. Our daily activities effect the public health and the environment

2. What Act in 1974 began the process of identifying parameters for safe drinking water?
 a. Clean Water Act b. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act c. Safe Drinking Water Act d. Superfund

3. A scientifically unsound or technically unjustified omission, manipulation, or alteration of analytical procedures or data that bypasses the required quality control parameters, making the results appear acceptable is defined as:

 a. Improper behavior or practice b. Good habits c. Plea Agreement d. Obstructing proceedings

4. Which condition below may contribute to the cultivation of bad habits?

 a. Detailed up-to-date SOPs b. Focus on production over quality c. Good documentation d. Ethics training

5. What are some ways to monitor data integrity? (check all that apply)

 a. Data Review b. Hardcopy and electronic c. Record Keeping d. Documentation e. Manual Integration Training f. Blind PT Samples

6. Manual integration is a perfectly acceptable and expected procedure to be performed on chromatographic data that has not been integrated appropriately using the software’sautomatic integration procedures:

 a. True  b. False

7. All records don’t need to include the identity of the personnel making the entry but must provide for the historical recreation of events.

 a. True  b. False

8. What types of data review are important to document? (check all that apply)

 a. Electronic data review b. Notebook reviews c. SOP reviews d. Movie reviews

9. Business ethics will: (check all that apply)

 a. It will improve our customers’ performance b. Ensure business prosperity  c. Raise quality of life for employees d. Safeguard the companies ability to stay in business

10. What’s wrong is right even if everyone is doing it, what’s right is wrong even if no one is doing it.

 a. True b. False

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