TDCJ TRAINING ACADEMY TEST QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ACCURATE ANSWERS
Consultant - Answers - is a professional advisor under contract with the TDCJ who
performs consulting services for the TDCJ.
Contract Employee - Answers - is an individual who performs services for the TDCJ on
a contractual basis.
"Employee" - Answers - is a person employed by the TDCJ on a full-time, part-time, or
temporary basis.
"Information Resources" - Answers - means the procedures, equipment, and software
that are employed, designed, built, operated, and maintained to collect, record, process,
store, retrieve, display, and transmit information, and associated personnel including
consultants and contractors.
"Intern" - Answers - is an individual who performs work for the TDCJ on a temporary
basis without pay, and whose work: (a) provides training or supplements training given
in an educational environment;
(b) provides experience for the benefit of the individual performing the work; and (c) is
performed under the close supervision of TDCJ staff.
"Other Individual" - Answers - is a person requiring a user account with the TDCJ; for
example, Windham School District employees, Special Prosecutor's Office, Sheriff's
Department, and Board of Pardons and Paroles employees.
"User" - Answers - is an employee, contract employee, consultant, vendor, intern,
volunteer, automated application, process, or other individual authorized to access the
information resource by the information owner, in accordance with the owner's
procedures and rules.
"Vendor" - Answers - is any company or individual under contract to provide a service to
the TDCJ, other than through a contract employee, when providing such service
requires the vendor or the vendor's employee to: (a) have access to premises owned,
leased, or contracted by the TDCJ; or
(b) provide services to inmates at any location.
"Volunteer" - Answers - is an individual who has been approved to perform volunteer
services for the TDCJ.
TRUE OR FALSE? - Answers - A "Data Use and Non-Disclosure Agreement" "(PD-
04)"for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is a legal document that
outlines the restrictions on how individuals accessing sensitive information related to
, inmates, employees, or releasees can use and disclose that data, essentially requiring
them to maintain confidentiality of all records and information pertaining to the agency,
including personal details, criminal history, and health information, and prohibiting
unauthorized sharing of such data.
EEO STANDS FOR... - Answers - Equal employment opportunities
(PD-12) EEO MEANS.... - Answers - To affirm the continuing commitment of the TDCJ
to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees
without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetic
information.
"Texas Workforce Commission, Civil Rights Division" (TWC-CRD) - Answers - is the
state agency charged with: (1) enforcing state laws prohibiting employment
discrimination and retaliation; and (2) investigating alleged violations of such laws.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) - Answers - is the federal agency
that enforce to D Cars Employe & clarionyment discrimination and retaliation. The EOC
is separate from the TDCJ employee relations.
(PD-13), "SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND DISCOURTEOUS CONDUCT
OF A SEXUAL NATURE" - Answers - To provide guidelines for the maintenance of a
work environment within the TDCJ that is free of sexual harassment and discourteous
conduct of a sexual nature, and to provide procedures for the reporting of such conduct
so that prompt remedial action can occur.
"Complainant" - Answers - is an employee or other individual bringing forth allegations
of prohibited conduct.
"Discourteous Conduct of a Sexual Nature" - Answers - is conduct, in words or actions,
of a sexual nature toward or observed by another TDCJ employee or other individual
(see definition for "Other Individual") that: (a) a reasonable person would find offensive;
or (b) is unwelcome to the person to whom such conduct is directed and that person
has communicated, by words or actions, to the other person that the conduct is
unwelcome.
(PD-31) "Discrimination" - Answers - is unequal treatment of persons based on race,
color, religion, sex (gender), including sexual harassment, national origin, age (40 or
above), disability, or genetic information (collectively "protected class"). Discrimination
by employers falls into four general areas: (1) hiring and firing, such as failing or
refusing to hire, or discharging; (2) employment conditions, such as compensation,
terms, conditions, or privileges; (3) segregation and classification, such as limiting,
segregating, or classifying employees in any way that would deprive or tend to deprive
any individual of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect their status as
an employee; and (4) training, such as unequal access to training that may affect an
individual's ability to promote.
VERIFIED ACCURATE ANSWERS
Consultant - Answers - is a professional advisor under contract with the TDCJ who
performs consulting services for the TDCJ.
Contract Employee - Answers - is an individual who performs services for the TDCJ on
a contractual basis.
"Employee" - Answers - is a person employed by the TDCJ on a full-time, part-time, or
temporary basis.
"Information Resources" - Answers - means the procedures, equipment, and software
that are employed, designed, built, operated, and maintained to collect, record, process,
store, retrieve, display, and transmit information, and associated personnel including
consultants and contractors.
"Intern" - Answers - is an individual who performs work for the TDCJ on a temporary
basis without pay, and whose work: (a) provides training or supplements training given
in an educational environment;
(b) provides experience for the benefit of the individual performing the work; and (c) is
performed under the close supervision of TDCJ staff.
"Other Individual" - Answers - is a person requiring a user account with the TDCJ; for
example, Windham School District employees, Special Prosecutor's Office, Sheriff's
Department, and Board of Pardons and Paroles employees.
"User" - Answers - is an employee, contract employee, consultant, vendor, intern,
volunteer, automated application, process, or other individual authorized to access the
information resource by the information owner, in accordance with the owner's
procedures and rules.
"Vendor" - Answers - is any company or individual under contract to provide a service to
the TDCJ, other than through a contract employee, when providing such service
requires the vendor or the vendor's employee to: (a) have access to premises owned,
leased, or contracted by the TDCJ; or
(b) provide services to inmates at any location.
"Volunteer" - Answers - is an individual who has been approved to perform volunteer
services for the TDCJ.
TRUE OR FALSE? - Answers - A "Data Use and Non-Disclosure Agreement" "(PD-
04)"for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is a legal document that
outlines the restrictions on how individuals accessing sensitive information related to
, inmates, employees, or releasees can use and disclose that data, essentially requiring
them to maintain confidentiality of all records and information pertaining to the agency,
including personal details, criminal history, and health information, and prohibiting
unauthorized sharing of such data.
EEO STANDS FOR... - Answers - Equal employment opportunities
(PD-12) EEO MEANS.... - Answers - To affirm the continuing commitment of the TDCJ
to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees
without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetic
information.
"Texas Workforce Commission, Civil Rights Division" (TWC-CRD) - Answers - is the
state agency charged with: (1) enforcing state laws prohibiting employment
discrimination and retaliation; and (2) investigating alleged violations of such laws.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) - Answers - is the federal agency
that enforce to D Cars Employe & clarionyment discrimination and retaliation. The EOC
is separate from the TDCJ employee relations.
(PD-13), "SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND DISCOURTEOUS CONDUCT
OF A SEXUAL NATURE" - Answers - To provide guidelines for the maintenance of a
work environment within the TDCJ that is free of sexual harassment and discourteous
conduct of a sexual nature, and to provide procedures for the reporting of such conduct
so that prompt remedial action can occur.
"Complainant" - Answers - is an employee or other individual bringing forth allegations
of prohibited conduct.
"Discourteous Conduct of a Sexual Nature" - Answers - is conduct, in words or actions,
of a sexual nature toward or observed by another TDCJ employee or other individual
(see definition for "Other Individual") that: (a) a reasonable person would find offensive;
or (b) is unwelcome to the person to whom such conduct is directed and that person
has communicated, by words or actions, to the other person that the conduct is
unwelcome.
(PD-31) "Discrimination" - Answers - is unequal treatment of persons based on race,
color, religion, sex (gender), including sexual harassment, national origin, age (40 or
above), disability, or genetic information (collectively "protected class"). Discrimination
by employers falls into four general areas: (1) hiring and firing, such as failing or
refusing to hire, or discharging; (2) employment conditions, such as compensation,
terms, conditions, or privileges; (3) segregation and classification, such as limiting,
segregating, or classifying employees in any way that would deprive or tend to deprive
any individual of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect their status as
an employee; and (4) training, such as unequal access to training that may affect an
individual's ability to promote.
