Quiz 110 

 

 

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CPE Quiz # 110

Based on Information Systems Control Journal Volume 5, 2006

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

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Ross Article

1. Business continuity management includes not only planning to replace information systems and critical resources, but also managing enterprises in such a way that outages and interruptions are anticipated and mitigated before they occur.
2.Data center resilience for information technology can be accomplished through a single data center.
3. Real-time data replication requires that, as data are written in a primary database, they are written to a secondary one at the same location.
4.Integrated applications such as enterprise resource planning are making other industries consider or implement the need for resilience.
5. The controlling influence over whether a company needs its data centers resilient is the value of the data processed by these data centers.

Singleton Article

6. Entities that employ IT governance structure their decision making regarding IT around the principles of IT governance.
7. Project management provides tools, techniques and best practices in managing projects, including IT projects, so that they come in on time and within budget and meet the requirements expected.
8. Research has revealed that risk has the highest maturity in project management.
9. Project risk management in the context of IT governance is executed by the second layer (middle managers, sponsors, business unit managers, etc.).
10. Financial risk relates to issues such as budget, ability of the IT project to meet projected net present value or return on investment, and the project's ability to enhance or improve decision making.

Parkes Article

11. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act focuses on an entity's financial statements, but not on the other activities that make up around 80 percent of the market value of an enterprise.
12. Section 302 of Sarbanes-Oxley requires the CEO and CFO to certify that they have confirmed within the last 90 days that the internal controls within their organization are operating effectively.
13. If balance sheet substantiation is still being used rather than an interactive monitoring of controls throughout the accounting period, the assurance process from external auditors is likely to provide much comfort to CEOs and CFOs.
14. The monitoring of internal controls is a Sarbanes-Oxley section 302 requirement, but an organization will get more value if Sarbanes-Oxley compliance is a subsidiary benefit of activities normally carried out to run a good entity.

Coe Article

15. A SAS 70 Type II audit report may be required when a company utilizes a service organization.
16. The US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) protects the interest of investors and furthers public interest in the preparation of informative, fair and independent audit reports.
17. Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires a public company's management to provide the investing public with an assessment of the state of the company's internal control over financial reporting on a quarterly basis, as well as a report of independent auditors attesting to management's assessment.
18. The use of information technology in its information systems does not affect the company's internal control over financial reporting.
19. The use of a service organization does not reduce management's responsibility to maintain effective internal control over financial reporting.
20. If the activities being performed by the service organization are considered part of the company's internal control over financial reporting, management must determine the extent of procedures necessary to assess the internal controls.

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