Business continuity/disaster recovery is PRIMARILY the
responsibility of:
A. IS management.
B. business unit managers.
C. the security administrator.
D. the board of directors.
Answer / guest
Answer: D
The board of directors is primarily and ultimately
responsible for business continuity/disaster recovery. They
are entrusted with safeguarding both the assets of the
company and the viability of the company. Business
continuity/disaster recovery planning is not an isolated
activity, it must be consistant with and support the overall
plan of the organization. IS management and business unit
managers are responsible for the continuity/recovery of
their respective functions, not responsble for the
organization as a whole. The security adminitrator is
responsible for implementing, monitoring and enforcing
security policies established and authorized by management.
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Which of the following offsite information processing facility conditions would cause an IS auditor the GREATEST concern? The facility A. is identified clearly on the outside with the company name. B. is located more than an hour driving distance from the originating site. C. does not have any windows to let in natural sunlight. D. entrance is located in the back of the building rather than the front.
An IS auditor performing an access controls review should be LEAST concerned if: A. audit trails were not enabled. B. programmers have access to the live environment. C. group logons are being used for critical functions. D. the same user can initiate transactions and also change related parameters.
IS auditors are MOST likely to perform compliance tests of internal controls if, after their initial evaluation of the controls, they conclude that: A. a substantive test would be too costly. B. the control environment is poor. C. inherent risk is low. D. control risks are within the acceptable limits.
A data warehouse is: A. object orientated. B. subject orientated. C. departmental specific. D. a volatile databases.
A key element in a risk analysis is/are: A. audit planning. B. controls. C. vulnerabilities. D. liabilities.
Many organizations require an employee to take a mandatory vacation (holiday) of a week or more to: A. ensure the employee maintains a quality of life, which will lead to greater productivity. B. reduce the opportunity for an employee to commit an improper or illegal act. C. provide proper cross training for another employee. D. eliminate the potential disruption caused when an employee takes vacation one day at a time.
The method of routing traffic through split cable facilities or duplicate cable facilities is called: A. alternative routing. B. diverse routing. C. redundancy. D. circular routing.
When assessing the portability of a database application, the IS auditor should verify that: A. a structured query language (SQL) is used. B. information import and export procedures with other systems exist. C. indexes are used. D. all entities have a significant name and identified primary and foreign keys.
An IS auditor evaluating data integrity in a transaction driven system environment should review atomicity, to determine whether: A. the database survives failures (hardware or software). B. each transaction is separated from other transactions. C. integrity conditions are maintained. D. a transaction is completed or not, or a database is updated or not.
Applying a retention date on a file will ensure that: A. data cannot be read until the date is set. B. data will not be deleted before that date. C. backup copies are not retained after that date. D. datasets having the same name are differentiated.
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.
An offsite information processing facility having electrical wiring, air conditioning and flooring, but no computer or communications equipment is a: A. cold site. B. warm site. C. dial-up site. D. duplicate processing facility.