Input and Origination Controls-IT Development and Implementation

Question 1

Which of the following controls in not usually found in batch processing systems?
	A.  	Closed loop verification.
	B.  	Financial control totals.
	C.  	Check digits.
	D.  	Limit checks.

Answer 1

A. Closed loop verification.

Closed loop verification is an input control associated with online real-time systems.

Question 2

Mark Chen was recently hired by the Rollins Company at a monthly salary of $1,800. When his employee information was entered into the company’s personnel system, his monthly salary amount was entered correctly, but he was inadvertently classified as an hourly employee.

Which of the following controls would be most likely to detect this error?
	A.  	Range check.
	B.  	Reasonableness check.
	C.  	Closed loop verification.
	D.  	Limit check.

Answer 2

B. Reasonableness check.

Reasonableness checks look at the values in two related fields to ensure that they make sense as a unit;
for example, Mark’s $1,800 rate is reasonable and his assignment as an hourly employee could be reasonable, but the combination of the two fields ($1,800 hourly rate) is unreasonable.

Question 3

Which of the following input controls would prevent an incorrect state abbreviation from being accepted as legitimate data?
	A.  	Reasonableness test.
	B.  	Field check.
	C.  	Digit verification check.
	D.  	Validity check.

Answer 3

A validity check compares the value entered in a field to a list of valid data values. An error message is displayed if the value is not found on the list.

Question 4

An employee mistakenly enters April 31 in the date field. Which of the following programmed edit checks offers the best solution for detecting this error?
A.

Online prompting.
B.

Mathematical accuracy.
C.

Preformatted screen.
D. Reasonableness.

Answer 4

D. Reasonableness.

April has only 30 days. The reasonableness test will catch this error.