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A policy that requires employees to alternate jobs periodically is called:

A) segregation of duties
B) forced vacations
C) rotation of duties
D) personnel planning

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______________________________ in an internal control system means assessment by management to determine whether the control plans in place are continuing to function appropriately over time.

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With the data replication strategy known as ______________________________ all data changes are data stamped and saved to secondary systems as the changes are happening.

The disaster recovery strategy known as a(n)______________________________ is a fully equipped data center that is made available on a standby basis to client companies for a monthly subscriber's fee.

______________________________ documentation provides a description of an application computer program and usually includes the program's purpose,program flowcharts,and source code listings.

A data replication strategy where all data changes are data stamped and saved to secondary systems as the changes are happening is called:

The disaster backup and recovery technique known as electronic vaulting is a service whereby data changes are automatically transmitted over the Internet on a continuous basis to an off-site server maintained by a third party.

The use of IT resources for enterprise systems and e-business:

Pervasive control plans:

This logs and monitors who is on or trying to access an organization's network.

______________________________ controls provide assurance that all modifications to programs are authorized and documented,and that the changes are completed,tested,and properly implemented.

The four events-processing functions that constitute the segregation of duties control plan are: Required: Below is a list of ten events-processing activities,five relating to the cycle of activities involved in processing a sales event and seven relating to the cycle for a purchase event.Classify each of the twelve activities into one of the four functional categories listed above by placing the letter A,B,C,or D on the answer line to the left of each number.You should use only one letter for each of the answers.

The ______________________________ is charged with safeguarding the IT organization.

A warehouse supervisor prepares a sales order listing items to be shipped to a customer and then signs it approving the removal of the items from the warehouse.The supervisor is performing which functions?

Embezzlement is a fraud committed by two or more individuals or departments.

______________________________ is a process that employs mathematical algorithms and encryption keys to encode data (i.e. ,change un-encoded data,called plaintext,to a coded text form,called ciphertext)so that it is unintelligible.

______________________________ identification systems identify authorized personnel through some unique physical trait such as fingers,hands,voice,eyes,face,and writing dynamics.

In an online environment,______________________________ ensures that only authorized users gain access to a system through a process of identification (e.g. ,a unique account number for each user)and authentication.

A key control concern is that certain people within an organization have easy access to applications programs and data files.The people are:

A(n)______________________________ is a technique to protect one network from another "untrusted" network.