Information Technology Flashcards
(27 cards)
What are the domain & process of COBIT?
PO AIDS ME
- Plan & Oraganize: Direct
- Acquire & Implement: Solution
- Deliver & Support: Service
- Monitor & Evaluate: Ensure direction allowed
Which COBIT model describes a make or purchase decision?
Acquisition & Implementation
What are the orders of data structure?
- Field
- Record
- File
- Table
- Database
- Data definition file
Most secure way to access online website:
Extranet
Describe end-user computing
User is responsible for the development and execution of the computer application
Advantage of value-added network for EDI
Ability to deal with differing data protocols
Describe the 3-layer system
- Desktop client
- Application
- Database
Responsible for a network administrator
Managing remote access
Responsible for a system analyst
- Design or purchase IT system
- Responsible for flowcharts
- Liaison between users & programmers
Responsible for a system programmer
Writes, updates maintain, & tests software, system & compilers
Responsible for a system operator
- Schedules & monitors jobs
- Runs IT help desk
Responsible for a data control clerk
- Schedules job for the computer
- Manages the distribution of reports
- Coding activities, calculating & checking batch totals
Responsible of librarians
Safeguarding & maintenance of all program & data files
Responsible of users
- Authorizing & recording transactions
- Correcting errors
Responsible of data control group
- Logs data inputs, processing, outputs
- Make sure transactions have been authorized
- Do NOT authoirze or record themselves
Backup & recovery systems should have both
Off-site company & redundancy
Which phrase of SDLC identify the problem?
Planning phase
What’s ad hoc?
Quary utility program
What are the components of the data processing cycle?
- Input → Collection
- Processing
- Output
What’s electronic vaulting?
Transmit & store backups of programs electronically @ remote data storage facility
What’s integrated test facility?
Fictitious & real transactions are processed together without the client aware of
Which input control would prevent an incorrect state abbreviation from being accepted?
Validity check
What’s field check?
Make sure the entry is correct type (numbers or alphanumeric)
What is data definition language?
- Defines database
- Controls tables