Answer / guest

Answer: C

Digital certificates are issued by a trusted third party.
The message sender attaches the certificate rather than the
public key and can verify authenticity with the certificate
repository. Asymmetric cryptography is vulnerable to a
man-in-the-middle attack. Digital certificates are used for
confidentiality. Message authentication code is used for
message integrity verification.

Answer / uma

A Digital signature .

Which of the following audit procedures would an IS auditor be LEAST likely to include in a security audit? A. Review the effectiveness and utilization of assets. B. Test to determine that access to assets is adequate. C. Validate physical, environmental and logical access policies per job profiles. D. Evaluate asset safeguards and procedures that prevent unauthorized access to the assets.

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Which of the following represents the GREATEST risk created by a reciprocal agreement for disaster recovery made between two companies? A. Developments may result in hardware and software incompatibility. B. Resources may not be available when needed. C. The recovery plan cannot be tested. D. The security infrastructures in each company may be different.

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Structured programming is BEST described as a technique that: A. provides knowledge of program functions to other programmers via peer reviews. B. reduces the maintenance time of programs by the use of small-scale program modules. C. makes the readable coding reflect as closely as possible the dynamic execution of the program. D. controls the coding and testing of the high-level functions of the program in the development process.

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An internal audit department, that organizationally reports exclusively to the chief financial officer (CFO) rather than to an audit committee, is MOST likely to: A. have its audit independence questioned. B. report more business-oriented and relevant findings. C. enhance the implementation of the auditor's recommendations. D. result in more effective action being taken on the recommendations.

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Which of the following can be used to verify output results and control totals by matching them against the input data and control totals? A. Batch header forms B. Batch balancing C. Data conversion error corrections D. Access controls over print spools

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IS management has decided to rewrite a legacy customer relations system using fourth-generation languages (4GLs). Which of the following risks is MOST often associated with system development using 4GLs? A. Inadequate screen/report design facilities B. Complex programming language subsets C. Lack of portability across operating systems D. Inability to perform data intensive operations

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For an online transaction processing system, transactions per second is a measure of: A. throughput. B. response time. C. turnaround time. D. uptime.

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When reviewing the implementation of a LAN the IS auditor should FIRST review the: A. node list. B. acceptance test report. C. network diagram. D. user's list.

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Which of the following would an IS auditor expect to find in a console log? A. Names of system users B. Shift supervisor identification C. System errors D. Data edit errors

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Change control procedures to prevent scope creep during an application development project should be defined during: A. design. B. feasibility. C. implementation. D. requirements definition.

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The review of router access control lists should be conducted during a/an: A. environmental review. B. network security review. C. business continuity review. D. data integrity review.

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An organization is considering connecting a critical PC-based system to the Internet. Which of the following would provide the BEST protection against hacking? A. An application-level gateway B. A remote access server C. A proxy server D. Port scanning

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