ASI 2

An IS auditor has been asked to review proposals to implement a standardized IT infrastructure. Which of the following findings would likely be featured in the auditor’s report? The proposals likely to:

• Improve the cost-effectiveness of IT service delivery and operational support.

• Increase the complexity of IT service delivery and support.

• Reduce the level of investment in the IT infrastructure.

• Reduce the need for testing of future application changes.

Which of the following would BEST help to prioritize project activities and determine the timeline for a project?

• A Gantt chart

• Earned value analysis (EVA)

• Program evaluation review technique (PERT)

• Function point analysis (FPA)

An IS auditor reviewing a series of completed projects finds that the implemented functionality often exceeded requirements and most of the projects can significantly over budget.

Which of these areas of the organization’s project management process is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

• Project scope management

• Project time management

• Project risk management

• Project procurement management

An IS auditor is reviewing the software development process for an organization. Which of the following functions would be appropriate for the end users to perform?

• Program output testing

• System configuration

• Program logic specification

• Performance tuning

An IS auditor is reviewing system development for a healthcare organization with two application environments—production and test. During an interview, the auditor notes that production data are used in the test environment to test program changes.

What is the MOST significant potential risk from this situation?

• The test environment may not have adequate controls to ensure data accuracy

• The test environment may produce inaccurate results due to use of production data.

• Hardware in the test environment may not be identical to the production environment.

• The test environment may not have adequate access controls implemented to ensure data confidentiality.

The IS auditor is reviewing a recently completed conversion to a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. As the final stage of the conversion process, the organization ran the old and new systems in parallel for 30 days before allowing the new systems to run on its own.

What is the MOST significant advantage to the organization by using this strategy?

• Significant cost savings over other testing approaches

• Assurance that new, faster hardware is compatible with the new system

• Assurance that the new system meets functional requirements

• Increased resiliency during the parallel processing time

What kind of software application testing is considered the

final stage of testing and typically includes users outside the development team?

• Alpha testing

• White box testing

• Regression testing

• Beta testing

During which phase of software application testing should an organization perform the testing of architectural design?

• Acceptance testing

• System testing

• Integration testing

• Unit testing

Which of the following is the MOST efficient way to test the design effectiveness of a partially automated change control process?

• Test a sample population of changes

• Perform an end-to-end walk-through of the process

• Test one change that has been authorized

• Use a computer-assisted audit test (CAAT)

An organization is replacing a payroll program that it developed in house, with the relevant subsystem of a commercial enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.

Which of the following would represent the highest potential risk?

• Undocumented approval of some project changes

• Faulty migration of historical data from the old system to the new system

• Incomplete testing of the standard functionality of the ERP subsystem

• Duplication of existing payroll permissions on the new ERP subsystem