A company has recently upgraded its purchase system to
incorporate EDI transmissions. Which of the following
controls should be implemented in the EDI interface in order
to provide for efficient data mapping?
A. Key verification
B. One-for-one checking
C. Manual recalculations
D. Functional acknowledgements
Answer / guest
Answer: D
Acting as an audit trail for EDI transactions, functional
acknowledgements are one of the main controls used in data
mapping. All the other choices are manual input controls,
whereas data mapping deals with automatic integration of
data in the receiving company.
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Which of the following would BEST support 24/7 availability? A. Daily backup B. Offsite storage C. Mirroring D. Periodic testing
An organization has an integrated development environment (IDE), where the program libraries reside on the server, but modification/development and testing are done from PC workstations. Which of the following would be a strength of an integrated development environment? A. Controls the proliferation of multiple versions of programs B. Expands the programming resources and aids available C. Increases program and processing integrity D. Prevents valid changes from being overwritten by other changes
Which of the following normally would be the MOST reliable evidence for an auditor? A. A confirmation letter received from a third party verifying an account balance B. Assurance from line management that an application is working as designed C. Trend data obtained from World Wide Web (Internet) sources D. Ratio analysis developed by the IS auditor from reports supplied by line management
An IS auditor is assigned to perform a post implementation review of an application system. Which of the following situations may have impaired the independence of the IS auditor? The IS auditor: A. implemented a specific control during the development of the application system. B. designed an embedded audit module exclusively for auditing the application system. C. participated as a member of the application system project team, but did not have operational responsibilities. D.provided consulting advice concerning application system best practices.
A call-back system requires that a user with an id and password call a remote server through a dial-up line, then the server disconnects and: A. dials back to the user machine based on the user id and password using a telephone number from its database. B. dials back to the user machine based on the user id and password using a telephone number provided by the user during this connection. C. waits for a redial back from the user machine for reconfirmation and then verifies the user id and password using its database. D. waits for a redial back from the user machine for reconfirmation and then verifies the user id and password using the sender's database.
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