IT Controls Can Be Divided into Two Categories, General Controls

question 30

Multiple Choice

IT Controls can be divided into two categories, general controls and application controls.Which of the following is an example of a general control?

• A)The alignment of a company's IT strategy with its business strategy
• B)The use of passwords to allow only authorized users to log into an IT-based accounting system
• C)The use of an elaborate set of checks and balances whereby a company's leadership is held accountable for building shareholder value
• D)A company performing background checks on employees of its IT department

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Definitions:

Aromatic

Refers to chemicals that contain benzene rings, or similar ring structures, which are stable and have distinctive smells.

Antiaromatic

A term describing cyclic compounds that are unstable due to conjugated pi electrons disrupting the molecule’s planarity or symmetry.

Nonaromatic

Refers to compounds that do not have a conjugated system of electrons typical of aromatic compounds, lacking the distinctive stability and ring structure of benzene.

Allotropes

Different forms of the same element, with distinct physical and chemical properties, due to different arrangements of atoms or bonds (e.g., graphite and diamond are allotropes of carbon).