Question 1

______________________________ is a policy of requiring an employee to take leave from the job and substituting another employee in his or her place.

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Question 2

In a(n) ______________________________ a Web site is overwhelmed by an intentional onslaught of thousands of simultaneous messages, making it impossible for the attacked site to engage in its normal activities.

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Question 3

The ______________________________ documentation portion of application documentation provides an overall description of the application, including the system's purpose; an overview of system procedures; and sample source documents, outputs, and reports.

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Question 4

A facility usually comprised of air-conditioned space with a raised floor, telephone connections, and computer ports, into which a subscriber can move equipment, is called a(n) ______________________________.

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Question 5

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

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Question 6

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

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Question 7

A(n) ______________________________ indemnifies a company in case it suffers losses from defalcations committed by its employees.

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Question 8

Computer software that is used to facilitate the execution of a given business process is called ______________________________.

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Question 9

The ______________________________ gives detailed instructions to computer operators and to data control about a particular application.

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Question 10

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

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Question 11

______________________________ controls restrict access to data, programs and documentation.

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Question 12

The most common biometric devices read ______________________________.

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Question 13

The ______________________________ describes user procedures for an application and assists the user in preparing inputs and using outputs.

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Question 14

The ______________________________ covers the progression of information systems through the systems development process, from birth, through implementation, to ongoing use and modification.

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Question 15

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.

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Question 16

The terms ______________________________ planning, disaster recovery planning, business interruption planning, and business continuity planning have all been used to describe the backup and recovery control plans designed to ensure that an organization can recover from a major calamity.

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Question 17

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

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Question 18

______________________________ 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.

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Question 19

The policy of requiring an employee to alternate jobs periodically is known as ______________________________.

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Question 20

______________________________ are documents that help users learn their jobs and perform consistently in those jobs.

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Quiz 8: Controlling Information Systems: Introduction to Pervasive Controls