Accounting Information Systems in a Computer Environment (AIN1501)
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Assessment 6 semester 2 2024
AIN1501
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1. **As cyber risks of cloud and mobile computing, providing business and customer data to an
outsourced service provider, unauthorized access of business and customer data means that
the data can be accessed by that service provider’s staff.**
- **Answer:** a. TRUE.
2. **Hacking is the gaining of unauthorized access to a computer system.**
- **Answer:** a. TRUE.
3. **Information quality as the condition of lawful processing of information means personal
information collected and stored must be…**
- **Answer:** d. Up to date and not misleading.
4. **Technical support and training policies as part of general controls ensure that all the users
of the organization’s IT systems are competent.**
- **Answer:** a. TRUE.
5. **Antivirus software is a software used to prevent virus infections on computers and
computer networks.**
- **Answer:** a. TRUE.
6. **As one of the fundamental principles of ethics that an individual professional accountant is
required to comply with, integrity means being…**
- **Answer:** a. Straightforward in all key professional and business relationships.
7. **As one of the fundamental principles of ethics that an individual professional accountant is
required to comply with, professional behavior requires the following…**
, - **Answer:** d. A and B.
8. **Computer-related scams are a subsection of computer fraud and usually offer too-good-to-
be-true deals.**
- **Answer:** a. TRUE.
9. **Identity theft is used to obtain goods and services fraudulently.**
- **Answer:** a. TRUE.
10. **Unauthorized access, usage, damage, or theft presents a potential threat to privacy and
security data.**
- **Answer:** a. TRUE.
11. **The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA or the Act), No. 4 of 2013 came into
effect on…**
- **Answer:** b. 1 July 2021.
12. **The location of back-up facilities is also an important issue.**
- **Answer:** a. TRUE.
13. **Human errors which are unintentional errors from using Information System (IS) present a
threat to privacy and security of data.**
- **Answer:** a. TRUE.
14. **Vulnerabilities can be classified as either practical, procedural, or physical.**
- **Answer:** a. TRUE.
15. **Passwords should include numbers, capital letters, and special characters and should not
be a word related to your everyday life.**
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