BEC MCQ 4.6

Question 1

Parallel simulation

Answer 1

is a comprising safeguard used to check the validity of data gathered from financial firms clients. An auditor uses general accounting software to process data and checks it against the data from the clients software.

Question 2

system flowchart

Answer 2

describes how data flows in a system and how decision are made to control events. To illustrate this symbols are used. They are connected together to show what happens to data and where it goes.

Question 3

Procedures which will be used in a disaster recovery plan

Answer 3

identification of critical applications

Question 4

Disaster recovery plans

Answer 4

backup and downtime controls

Question 5

most complete disaster recovery plan.

Answer 5

Alternate processing site, backup and off-site storage procedures, identification of critical applications, test of the plan. The first step in preparing a disaster recovery plan is to determine the responsibilities of various participants in the plan.
Prior to that first step a determination is made of the kind and extent of recovery that is needed. Once that decision is made the people responsible for the recovery plan can be determined ( and those people will normally prepare the plan itself) . Like with any other plan an unclear designation of responsibilities will normally lead to a lousy plan and lousy plan will lead to lousy recovery. All plans need to be tested

Question 6

Business continuity plan

Answer 6

Business continuity plan is the creation of strategy through the recognition of threats and risks facing a company with an eye to ensure that personal and assets are protected and able to function in the event of a disaster. BCP involve defining potential risks determining how these risks will affect operations implementing safeguards and procedures designed to mitigate those risks testing those procedures to ensure that they work and periodically reviewing these process to make sure it is upto date

Question 7

Cold site

Answer 7

Cold site needs one to three days to make it operational

Question 8

Different types of backup

Answer 8

Differential- backup copies of all changes made since the last full backup
full backup- is the exact copy of the entire database
Incremental backup- involves copying the data items that have changed since the last backup.

Question 9

RAID

Answer 9

Redundant array of multiple independent disks is often used for disk storage . The basic Idea of Raid is to combine multiple inexpensive disk drives into array of disk drives to obtain performance capacity and reliability that exceed that of a single large disk drive. This is implemented at the original location for disk storage and is not considered a disaster recovery and business continuity option