Which of the following has the LEAST effect on controlling
physical access?
A. Access to the work area is restricted through a swipe card.
B. All physical assets have an identification tag and are
properly recorded.
C. Access to the premises is restricted and all visitors
authorized for entry.
D. Visitors are issued a pass and escorted in and out by a
concerned employee.
Answer / guest
Answer: B
The requirement that all physical assets have an
identification tag and are recorded properly is an effective
procedure for recording and monitoring assets. This is not
directly related to physical access control, although they
do facilitate implementing physical access controls. The
other choices are access controls that control and monitor
physical access.
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Which of the following is a telecommunication device that translates data from digital form to analog form and back to digital? A. Multiplexer B. Modem C. Protocol converter D. Concentrator
Which of the following is a strength of the program evaluation review technique (PERT) over other techniques? PERT: A. considers different scenarios for planning and control projects. B. allows the user to input program and system parameters. C. tests system maintenance processes accurately. D. estimates costs of system projects.
Which of the following is the basic objective of a control self-assessment program?
During a review of a customer master file an IS auditor discovered numerous customer name duplications arising from variations in customer first names. To determine the extent of the duplication the IS auditor would use: A. test data to validate data input. B. test data to determine system sort capabilities. C. generalized audit software to search for address field duplications. D. generalized audit software to search for account field duplications.
As updates to an online order entry system are processed, the updates are recorded on a transaction tape and a hard-copy transaction log. At the end of the day, the order entry files are backed up on tape. During the backup procedure, a drive malfunctions and the order entry files are lost. Which of the following are necessary to restore these files? A. The previous day's backup file and the current transaction tape B. The previous day's transaction file and the current transaction tape C. The current transaction tape and the current hard-copy transaction log D. The current hard-copy transaction log and the previous day's transaction file
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
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.
When performing an audit of access rights, an IS auditor should be suspicious of which of the following if allocated to a computer operator? A. READ access to data B. DELETE access to transaction data files C. Logged READ/EXECUTE access to programs D. UPDATE access to job control language/script files
Which of the following would be the BEST method for ensuring that critical fields in a master record have been updated properly? A. Field checks B. Control totals C. Reasonableness checks D. A before-and-after maintenance report
Which of the following user profiles should be of MOST concern to the IS auditor, when performing an audit of an EFT system? A. Three users with the ability to capture and verifiy their own messages B. Five users with the ability to capturr and send their own messages C. Five users with the ability to verificy other users and to send of their own messages D. Three users with the ability to capture and verifiy the messages of other users and to send their own messages
Once an organization has finished the business process reengineering (BPR) of all its critical operations, the IS auditor would MOST likely focus on a review of: A. pre-BPR process flowcharts. B. post-BPR process flowcharts. C. BPR project plans. D. continuous improvement and monitoring plans.
A universal serial bus (USB) port: A. connects the network without a network card. B. connects the network with an Ethernet adapter. C. replaces all existing connections. D. connects the monitor.