Quiz 92 

 

 

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Srinivasan and Levitan Article
Braswell and Harmon Article
Mookhey Article
Gold Article

 

CPE Quiz # 92

Based on Information Systems Control Journal Volume 5, 2003

A passing score of 75 percent qualifies for one (1) hour of CISA/CISM/CGEIT Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Credit

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Srinivasan and Levitan Article

1. Magnetic stripe cards are usually secure and effective for transaction processing because the machines needed to change the content of the cards are usually very expensive and difficult to obtain.
2. Some countries, including Canada, Finland, Malaysia and Pakistan, are considering smart cards as a national identification card.
3. Approximately the same number of smart card readers, contactless card readers and credit card readers are in use in the US today.
4. Hybrid smart cards are being deployed that utilize a combination of magnetic stripe and contactless card technologies.

Braswell and Harmon Article

5. Spam presents real financial exposures to companies in three areas: employee productivity, bandwidth and storage costs.
6. Policy can mitigate costs and risks associated with e-mail through addressing the issues of e-mail structure, retention, monitoring and policy enforcement.
7. Implementation of e-mail software without corresponding policies for managing and monitoring e-mail is not advised by the author, as some risks may be overlooked, some controls may be too harsh and the software itself may be inappropriate for the organization.

Mookhey Article

8. Advantages of Apache web server software are that it is freeware and open source. Further, it runs across a wide variety of platforms including UNIX, Windows, Netware and MacOS.
9. An Apache web server needs to be installed and run as root, so that it has write permissions for all files on the web server.
10. Network-based vulnerability assessment tools that can protect Apache software include Tripwire, Nessus and Nmap.

Gold Article

11. Strategic shifts at T. Rowe Price's information technology organization include shifting from tactical support to strategic partner, and from implicit strategy to explicitly communicated strategy.
12. The author identifies "ghost" IT spending as a condition where business units deliberately spend money for their own hardware or software. Ghost IT spending is undesirable because of lost economies of scale and uncoordinated efforts.

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