The plan is for each question on the exam to pose an ethical situation that may be faced by the IT professional. A number of different responses will be offered. The answers will have weights that will be ethical (+1), to unethical (-1), to somewhere between (0). Successfully completing the exam will require a positive average score. The CIPS Task force will identify the ethical situations to be covered; determine the weights to assign to the different responses; and determine the average score required to pass the exam. It is expected that the exam will be refined in the light of our early experience with the exam. Ethical questions rarely have right or wrong answers. The approach being followed recognizes there can be a range of possible responses, with answers that are at most only more or less ethical. Our reference point with be the CIPS Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, but the goal is not to test understand of any specific ethical code. The goal is to encourage participants to think about ethics and about how they would respond when confronted with situations similar to those posed by the exam questions. The Task Force will effectively act as interpreters of the IT community's shared ethical code. Any practicing IT professional should be able to review the background material that we provide during an evening and then be able to successfully complete the exam (in less than an hour). The exam will be open book and untimed. Questions will be drawn from a pool of questions. It will be very unlikely that a participant will see the same questions, in the same order, a second time around. Initially, there will be no limit on the number of times an individual can take the exam. Their score will be the last score they received, which will be either pass or fail. This Drupal "book" is offered as the place where members of the CIPS Task Force can identify the ethical situations to be covered by the exam, and discuss possible responses to each of those ethical situations. The hope is that this "book" can become the background material that individuals review before taking the online exam. With the right background material in hand it should be relatively easy to develop the actual questions and possible responses.