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Without causing a conflict of interest, a duty compatible
with those of a security administrator would be:
A. quality assurance.
B. application programming.
C. systems programming.
D. data entry.
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Answer: A
Quality assurance could be an additional responsibility of
the security administrator. The security administrator,
being responsible for application programming, systems
programming or data entry, would not provide an adequate
segregation of duties since he/she would be in a position to
openly introduce fraudulent or malicious code or data
causing damage to the organization.
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