Which of the following audit tools is MOST useful to an IS
auditor when an audit trail is required?
A. Integrated test facility (ITF)
B. Continuous and intermittent simulation (CIS)
C. Audit hooks
D. Snapshots
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Answer: D
A snapshot tool is most useful when an audit trail is
required. ITF can be used to incorporate test transactions
into a normal production run of a system. CIS is useful when
transactions meeting certain criteria need to be examined.
Audit hooks are useful when only select transactions or
processes need to be examined.
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The information that requires special precaution to ensure integrity is termed? A. Public data B. Private data C. Personal data D. Sensitive data
Which of the following alternative business recovery strategies would be LEAST appropriate for an organization with a large database and online communications network environment? A. Hot site B. Cold site C. Reciprocal agreement D. Dual information processing facilities
IS auditors reviewing access control should review data classification to ensure that encryption parameters are classified as: A. sensitive. B. confidential. C. critical. D. private.
When performing a review of the structure of an electronic funds transfer (EFT) system, an IS auditor observes that the technological infrastructure is based on a centralized processing scheme that has been outsourced to a provider in another country. Based on this information, which of the following conclusions should be the main concern of the IS auditor? A. There could be a question with regards to the legal jurisdiction. B. Having a provider abroad will cause excesive costs in future audits. C. The auditing process will be difficult because of the distances. D. There could be different auditing norms.
Sales orders are automatically numbered sequentially at each of a retailer's multiple outlets. Small orders are processed directly at the outlets, with large orders sent to a central production facility. The MOST appropriate control to ensure that all orders transmitted to production are received and processed would be to: A. send and reconcile transaction counts and totals. B. have data transmitted back to the local site for comparison. C. compare data communications protocols with parity checking. D. track and account for the numerical sequence of sales orders at the production facility.
IS management has recently informed the IS auditor of its decision to disable certain referential integrity controls in the payroll system to provide users with a faster report generator. This will MOST likely increase the risk of: A. data entry by unauthorized users. B. a nonexistent employee being paid. C. an employee receiving an unauthorized raise. D. duplicate data entry by authorized users.
Which of the following is the basic objective of a control self-assessment program?
When implementing continuous monitoring systems an IS auditor's first step is to identify: A. reasonable target thresholds. B. high-risk areas within the organization. C. the location and format of output files. D. applications that provide the highest potential payback.
A dry-pipe fire extinguisher system is a system that uses: A. water, but in which water does not enter the pipes until a fire has been detected. B. water, but in which the pipes are coated with special watertight sealants. C. carbon dioxide instead of water. D. halon instead of water.
Which of the following logical access exposures involves changing data before, or as it is entered into the computer? A. Data diddling B. Trojan horse C. Worm D. Salami technique
The MOST appropriate person to chair the steering committee for a system development project with significant impact on a business area would be the: A. business analyst. B. chief information officer. C. project manager. D. executive level manager.
Which of the following will help detect changes made by an intruder to the system log of a server? A. Mirroring of the system log on another server B. Simultaneously duplicating the system log on a write-once disk C. Write protecting the directory containing the system log D. Storing the backup of the system log offsite