Exam 13: Monitoring and Auditing Ais

Which of the following tools is typically used in data mining? A. COBIT. B. OLAP. C. REA. D. DBA.

Computer-assisted audit techniques (CAAT) are often used when auditing a company's IT infrastructure.

Which of the following is not considered one of the primary CAAT approaches? A. The black-box approach. B. Encryption testing. C. Auditing through the computer. D. The white-box approach.

Which of the following best describes a data warehouse? A. Users typically post operational transactions directly to the data warehouse. B. Data warehouses contain real-time data. C. A data warehouse typically hold no more than one year's worth of data. D. A data warehouse contains nonvolatile data.

Accountants increasingly participate in designing internal controls and improving business and IT processes in a database environment.

One control objective for an operating system is that it must be protected from itself. Which of the following statements best explains this concept? A. The operating system should be able to gracefully terminate activities, and later recover to its previous state. B. No operating system module should be allowed to corrupt or destroy another operating system module. C. User applications must not be allowed to gain control of or damage the operating system. D. The operating system must be able to prevent unauthorized users from accessing, corrupting, or destroying other users' data.

Which of the following describes a group of computers that connects the internal users of a company distributed over an office building? A. Internet B. LAN C. Virtual private network (VPN) D. Decentralized network

Which of the statements regarding a data warehouse is incorrect? A. It is a centralized collection of firm-wide data B. The purpose of a data warehouse is to provide a rich data set for management to identify patterns and to examine trends of business events C. Includes data for the current fiscal year only D. The data in a data warehouse is pulled from each of the operational databases periodically

A continuous audit allows companies to perform audit-related activities on a continuous basis.

ACL and IDEA are two prominent examples of which of the following? A. ITF. B. GAS. C. EAM. D. DBMS.