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The rights of a specific system user to view data and to change data in the system. |
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| IS A TRANSMISSION METHOD WHERE THERE IS NO CONTINUOUS SYNCHRONIZATION BTW SENDING AND RECEIVING |
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| ON A COMPUTER SYSTEM INCLUDE MESSAGES:INSERTED IN MIDSTREAM, DELETED, MODIFIED, DUPLICATED, ORDER CHANGED, DENIAL OF SERVICE, AND ESTABLISHMENT OF SPURIOUS ASSOCIATIONS SO ATHEYA RE ACCEPTED AS LEGITIMATE USERS. |
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| IS A REPORT PREPARED FOR ONE SPECIFIC PURPOSE, CASE, OR SITUATION. |
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| A computer program designed to performa certian type of work. An application differs from an operating system (which runs a computer), a utility (which performs maintenance or general purpose chores) and a language (in which computer programs are created). |
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Application Controls |
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| are procedures in application software designed to ensure completeness and accuracy of information. |
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Application Programs |
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| Are software that perform specific tasks, such as tracking inventory, or accumulating receivalbe and payable information. |
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Application Programmer
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| A person who designs and programs the appearance and function of an application program. |
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| Are properties of data records. An employee file includes attributes such as name, SSN, dept, and email address of each employee. |
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| Records used to verify data. An acctg audit trail maintains a record of events recorded in the ledger. An operations audit trail maintains a record of resources consumption associated w/ each event in the system. |
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AUDITING AROUND THE COMPUTER |
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| Is reconciling the inputs to a computer system with its output. |
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AUDIT THROUGH THE
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| Is testing computer performed internal controls and balances electronically and relying on strong general controls. |
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AUTOMATED CONTROLS |
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| Internal controls performed by computer software, not by a person. |
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| Means accessible for routine processing and maintenance. |
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BACKUP AND RECOVERY STRATEGIES |
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| Are the use of a prior version of a database and a log of changes or transcations to the DB to permit recovery from failures such as system software errors, applicaiton program errors, and procedural errors. |
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| A measure of the information capacity of a transmission channel. |
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BETWEEN LINES ENTRY |
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| is taking advantage of the time when a ligitimate user is connected to computer system, but is inactive. |
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is expressed as a series of zeros and ones. it is the low level way of programming a cpmtr.
First generation language |
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BEC-IT
BIOMETRIC ACCESS CONTROL |
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| compares a person's physical attributes, such as a fingerprint or a retina scan, with preciously stored date for that person. |
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BOUNDARY VALUE ANAYLSIS |
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| is a type of black box testing where test data is used to insure the software properly processess data at the upper and lower limits. |
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| Is searching residue from a computer system to gain unautorized access to information. |
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BUS NETWORK TOPOLOGY |
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| uses only one centrol line with each termnal in the line. The failure of a part of that bus will stop messages intended for nodes past that point form reaching their desination. |
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Computer assited auditing techniques.
EX. downloading transaction data from a mainframe to a laptop compter andusing generalized audit software to analyze that data. |
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BEC- IT
VERTICAL COMPANIES |
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| Work at all levels within industry and mostly earn their revenues from advertising on a speacialized sector or from transaction fee from the e-commerce they may host. |
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HORIZONTAL COMPANIES |
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Operates across numerous industries.
They provide products, goods, materials, or services that are not specific to particular industry or company. |
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ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE (EDI)
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Adv.- reduction of clerical errors, speed of txn, and the elimination of repetitive clerical tasks, such as a document preparation, processing, and mailing. |
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ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE (EDI)
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1. Information may be insecure.
2. Data may be lost.
3. Transmission to trading partners may fail.
4. EDI is less stdize but more costly than internet-based commerce, which use XML. |
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ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE
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