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

Input control goals include those for ensuring input validity,input ______________________________,and input ______________________________.

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

Dollar totals represent a summarization of any numeric data field within the input document or record.

Entity resources that are always considered in efficiency assessments for an AIS are:

The use of the letter M in a control matrix represents a(n)______________________________.

A conventional ______________________________ procedure involves a single key that is used both by the sender to encrypt the message and by the receiver to decrypt it.

Online prompting is aimed primarily at ensuring which of the following information systems control goals?

A count of the number of invoices being paid by all of the customer remittances is a type of batch control total called ______________________________.

A(n)______________________________ digit is an extra digit that is added to an identification number to help control the accuracy with which the number is entered into a computer system.

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

A(n)______________________________ is printed as an output of one computer process and is used to capture and input a subsequent transaction.

Programmed edit checks are edits automatically performed by data entry programs upon entry of the input data.

______________________________ control the online entry of data by defining the acceptable format of each data field,automatically moving to the next field,requiring that certain fields be completed,and/or automatically populating certain fields.

A(n)______________________________ reflects a summarization of any numeric data field within the input document or record,such as item numbers or quantities on a customer order.

We ______________________________ by reconciling totals prepared before a computer process has begun to totals prepared at the completion of the computer process.The totals may be prepared and reconciled either manually or by the computer.

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

______________________________ are edits automatically performed by data entry programs upon entry of the input data.

The control plan called ______________________________ is designed to reduce the possibility that data will be misread or miskeyed during data entry.

A hash total is the general term to describe the summation of data that would not normally be totaled except for control purposes.

When there are programmed edits to control data entry,we would expect to also find ______________________________ to ensure that erroneous items are corrected and resubmitted for processing.