Which of the following would be the LEAST important aspect
of a business continuity plan?
A. Redundant facilities
B. Relocation procedures
C. Adequate insurance coverage
D. Current and available business continuity manual
Answer / guest
Answer: C
Maintaining adequate insurance coverage is important to the
overall financial recovery of the organization, but it is
not as important as providing facilities for processing
recovery. The underlying purpose of business continuity
planning is the resumption of business operations. As such,
business recovery plans include procedures developed to
accommodate systems, user and network recovery strategies.
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The initial step in establishing an information security program is the: A. development and implementation of an information security standards manual. B. performance of a comprehensive security control review by the IS auditor. C. adoption of a corporate information security policy statement. D. purchase of security access control software.
Which of the following is an example of a passive attack, initiated through the Internet? A. Traffic analysis B. Masquerading C. Denial of service D. E-mail spoofing
Testing the connection of two or more system components that pass information from one area to another is: A. pilot testing. B. parallel testing C. interface testing. D. regression testing.
Which of the following IT governance best practices improves strategic alignment? A. Supplier and partner risks are managed. B. A knowledge base on customers, products, markets and processes is in place C. A structure is provided that facilitates the creation and sharing of business information. D. Top management mediate between the imperatives of business and technology
The responsibility for designing, implementing and maintaining a system of internal control lies with: A. the IS auditor. B. management. C. the external auditor. D. the programming staff.
An IS auditor should use statistical sampling and not judgmental (nonstatistical) sampling, when: A. the probability of error must be objectively quantified. B. the auditor wants to avoid sampling risk. C. generalized audit software is unavailable. D. the tolerable error rate cannot be determined.
Which of the following will help detect changes made by an intruder to the system log of a server? A. Mirroring of the system log on another server B. Simultaneously duplicating the system log on a write-once disk C. Write protecting the directory containing the system log D. Storing the backup of the system log offsite
Which of the following choices BEST ensures the effectiveness of controls related to interest calculation inside an accounting system? A. Re-performance B. Process walk-through C. Observation D. Documentation review
During an audit of a telecommunications system the IS auditor finds that the risk of intercepting data transmitted to and from remote sites is very high. The MOST effective control for reducing this exposure is: A. encryption. B. callback modems. C. message authentication. D. dedicated leased lines.
Which of the following types of transmission media provide the BEST security against unauthorized access? A. Copper wire B. Twisted pair C. Fiber-optic cables D. Coaxial cables
A data warehouse is: A. object orientated. B. subject orientated. C. departmental specific. D. a volatile databases.
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.