CPA Business Environment and Concepts (BEC) : Emerging Technologies
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Example Question #11 : Information Technology
What type of data processing system would be most appropriate for a company that is opening a new retail location?
Real time processing
Direct access processing
Batch processing
Sequential file processing
Real time processing
A new retail location would be significantly improved with real time processing in inventory.
Example Question #12 : Information Technology
Which of the following can be discovered using a data mining process?
Data structure
Previously unknown information
Standard query reporting
Artificial intelligence
Previously unknown information
Data mining can be used to sort through data in order to discover previously unknown information.
Example Question #1 : Emerging Technologies
Analysis of large and diverse amounts of data included in data warehouses is often referred to as:
Data mining
Systems analysis
Data processing
Electronic Data Interchange
Data mining
This is the definition of the process of data mining.
Example Question #1 : Emerging Technologies
General controls in an information system include each of the following except:
Software acquisition
Information technology infrastructure
Logic tests
Security management
Logic tests
General controls ensure that an organization's control environment is well managed and stable. Logic tests are not one of the components of general controls.
Example Question #15 : Information Technology
Which of the following activities would most likely detect computer related fraud?
Using data encryption
Conducting fraud awareness training
Reviewing the systems access log
Performing validity checks
Reviewing the systems access log
System access logs are electronic lists of who has accessed or has attempted to access systems or parts of systems or data or subsets of data.
Example Question #1 : Emerging Technologies
______ is a way of distributing software through applications hosted by a vendor and made available to customers over the web.
Software as a service
IT as a service
Infrastructure as a service
Platform as a service
Software as a service
IT as a service is not a term, software as a service relates to applications hosted by a vendor, and platform as a service allows customers to host their own applications.
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