Exam 9: Controlling Information Systems: Business Process and Application Controls

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A summation of the dollar value of all invoice totals in a batch is called a(n) ______________________________.

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The edit that compares calculations performed manually with those performed by the computer to determine if a document has been entered correctly is referred to as _____________________________________________.

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In the control matrix the M stands for present controls.

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The control "compare input data with master data" addresses all control goals of the operations process except _______________________________

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Plaintext is a term associated with ____.

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A sales representative enters the customer's account number and the system retrieves certain data about the customer from master data.This control plan addresses all of the control goals except:

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When there are programmed edits to control data entry, we would expect to also find _____________________________________________ to ensure that erroneous items are corrected and re-input.

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The most error-prone and inefficient step in an operations or information process is _____________________________________________.

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The control plan called data verification is designed to reduce the possibility that one person will misread or mis-key data.

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The two primary steps in preparing the control matrix include

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The purpose of ____________________ controls is to ensure that entity resources are protected from loss, destruction, disclosure, copying, sale, or other misuse.

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The purpose of input control goals is to ensure

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A written approval in the form of a signature or initials on a document indicating that a person has authorized the event achieves the control goal of:

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A summation of the dollar value of items in a batch is called a hash total.

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An exception and summary report reflects the events that were accepted or rejected by the system.

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Which of the following control plans is designed to achieve the goal of input completeness?

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Document/record counts are simple counts of the number of documents entered.

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Which of the following activities is not part of the computer agreement of batch totals:

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The purpose of ____ control goals is to ensure that entity resources are protected from loss, destruction, disclosure, copying, sale, or other misuse..

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The process of encoding data so that it may only be read by someone having a key is called:

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