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.
Answer / guest
Answer: D
The chair of the steering committee should be a senior
person (executive level manager) with the authority to make
decisions relating to the business requirements, resources,
priority and deliverables of the system. The chief
information officer (CIO) would not normally be the chair,
although the CIO or his representative would be a member to
provide input on organization wide strategies. The project
manager and the business analyst do not have an appropriate
level of authority within the organization,
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Controls designed to ensure that unauthorized changes are not made to information residing in a computer file are known as: A. data security controls. B. implementation controls. C. program security controls. D. computer operations controls.
When reviewing a service level agreement for an outsourced computer center an IS auditor should FIRST determine that: A. the cost proposed for the services is reasonable. B. security mechanisms are specified in the agreement. C. the services in the agreement are based on an analysis of business needs. D. audit access to the computer center is allowed under the agreement.
Congestion control is BEST handled by which OSI layer? A. Data link B. Session layer C. Transport layer D. Network layer
A TCP/IP-based environment is exposed to the Internet. Which of the following BEST ensures that complete encryption and authentication protocols exist for protecting information while transmitted? A. Work is completed in tunnel mode with IP security using the nested services of authentication header (AH) and encapsulating security payload (ESP). B. A digital signature with RSA has been implemented. C. Digital certificates with RSA are being used. D. Work is being completed in TCP services.
In planning a software development project, which of the following is the MOST difficult to determine? A. Project slack times B. The project's critical path C. Time and resource requirements for individual tasks D. Relationships that preclude the start of an activity before others are complete
Which of the following issues should be included in the business continuity plan? A. The staff required to maintain critical business functions in the short, medium and long term B. The potential for a natural disaster to occur, such as an earthquake C. Disastrous events impacting information systems processing and end-user functions D. A risk analysis that considers systems malfunctions, accidental file deletions or other failures
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An IS auditor attempting to determine whether access to program documentation is restricted to authorized persons would MOST likely: A. evaluate the record retention plans for off-premises storage. B. interview programmers about the procedures currently being followed. C. compare utilization records to operations schedules. D. review data file access records to test the librarian function.
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During the course of an audit, the IS auditor discovers that the human resources (HR) department uses a cloud-based application to manage employee records. The HR department engaged in a contract outside of the normal vendor management process and manages the application on its own. Which of the following choices is of MOST concern? A. Maximum acceptable downtime metrics have not been defined in the contract. B. The IT department does not manage the relationship with the cloud vendor. C. The help desk call center is in a different country, with different privacy requirements. D. Company-defined security policies are not applied to the cloud application.
Which of the following can identify attacks and penetration attempts to a network? A. Firewall B. Packet filters C. Stateful inspection D. Intrusion detection system (IDs)
Which of the following satisfies a two-factor user authentication? A. Iris scanning plus finger print scanning B. Terminal ID plus global positioning system (GPS) C. A smart card requiring the user's PIN D. User ID along with password