What should be the response for these kind of questions

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 05:27

You had worked with company A specilizing in something.  Now you are working with the competitor of A.

1.  You shouldn't use the knowledge you gained in A

2.  You should use the knowledge to enchance B's products 

3.  Before doing anything take permission of A

4.  You should do nothing which provides competition to or undermines the products of A 

Thanks

Anil

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Fri, 08/29/2008 - 02:10

Its perfectly legal and ethical to leave a job and work for a competitor, So you can use the knowledge you have gained to enhance Bs products. Not sure if option 4 would be correct here.

 

zerry.siddhu

Wed, 09/17/2008 - 13:29

Both 1 or 2 look right, however I'd go for 1 because PM don't really involve in enhancing the products (they rather focus on projects).

DPS

Tue, 10/14/2008 - 15:13

First, they hired you because of the experienced you gained from other companies or competitors. They need your exposures, knowledge and expertise to enhance or improve the products being produced. Second, is to  maximize the resources of the company by minimizing redo's and re-process' activities in production or services.

I think 3 and 4  are inappropriate in the selections or options provided.

SRCMrClark (not verified)

Mon, 10/20/2008 - 07:14

This is a fairly good example of the "ethics" type questions on the exam.  I believe the correct answer would be "3".  The knowledge you acquired at company "A" is considered proprietary and remains the property of "A" even after you've departed.  Before disclosing this information, you should obtain "A's" explicit permission.

roblis

Tue, 02/10/2009 - 17:58

The correct answer is "you may use your knowledge with no problems and without the need of asking permission".

The question says NOTHING about proprietary information (this would be a problem). Is perfectly normal, legal and ethic to use knowledge acquired from previous job in your current and future jobs (thank God! Imagine if you had to go through a brainwash during a quitting interview?).

Pay a lot of attention in what the question is asking. Read it cold, do not assume anything (remember: assume make an ASS out of U and ME)

=)

If the question said there was a doubt, you should consult the first company. If it saids clearly it's proprietary info, you should not use. Otherwise, enjoy it to the full!

 

 

 

HN-LB

Mon, 03/02/2009 - 10:43

Hi Roblis / Hi All

Suppose you have some financial information about some companies (Or lets say some confidential information), and you were contacted by Universities' students asking for such information, for researches purposes, what do you do?

A. Do you decline to release the information.

B. Accept and release the information.

C. Seek permission from these companies?

Awaiting your opinions.

Regards,

NH

 

roblis

Mon, 03/02/2009 - 23:57

NH,

 

With all due respect, you're putting different things in the same bowl. The question asked about the KNOWLEDGE you got on the previous company. It says nothing about proprietary or confidential INFORMATION.

That's a common mistake people use to make on the real exam. In the question you've stated you MUST ask for permission to use this kind of information. The question in the first post is pretty much different. It talks about the knowledge you acquired, more like "experience", or "know-how". So you may use it without asking for permission (by the way, that's the spirit of PMI, sharing you knowledge, passing it forward).

The real exam tricks you all the time with this kind of question. And that's why most people get surprised when a fail message appears on the screen.

Hope to have made it a little bit clearer

Best regards

Robledo Castro, MSc, PMP