WGU D217 ACCOUNTING INFORMATION FINALS
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔requires accountants to develop a new skill set in the electronic environment. -
✔✔Authentication
✔✔Users own the data files. - ✔✔What is a characteristic of the flat-file approach to
data management?
✔✔Data storage, data updating, and currency of information - ✔✔Which three types of
data management problems are a result of data redundancy?
✔✔Data updating - ✔✔An organization uses a flat-file data management system. Which
problem is caused when a customers change their address?
✔✔Task-data independence - ✔✔Which flat-file system problem is solved by using a
database approach?
✔✔Key processes of an organization - ✔✔What are order entry, manufacturing,
procurement, accounts payable, payroll and human resources examples of?
✔✔Distinct, separate, and independent databases exist because the data remain in the
application. - ✔✔Why is there a high degree of data redundancy in a closed database
environment?
✔✔Materials requirement list - ✔✔Which list shows the details of vendor shipments and
expected receipts of products and components needed for an order?
✔✔Enterprise resource planning (ERP) system - ✔✔Which system represents multiple
module software packages that evolved primarily from traditional manufacturing
resource planning (MRP II)?
, ✔✔signed invoices - ✔✔What is used in a traditional system to provide proof that a
transaction has occured?
✔✔Public key - ✔✔What was designed to overcome a private key security weakness?
✔✔Verisign, Inc. - ✔✔Which third-party trust organization issues three classes of
certificates?
✔✔Searching electronic transactions for anomalies. - ✔✔What exemplifies the use of
continuous auditing?
✔✔Conversion of data into a secret code - ✔✔What describes encryption?
✔✔Convert cleartext message, encrypt into ciphertext, decode back to cleartext
message - ✔✔Which operation represents the steps for the encryption of data?
✔✔Provides controlled access to a database - ✔✔Which is the role of the database
management system (DBMS)?
✔✔Makes data available for multiple request. - ✔✔What describes an efficient
information system?
✔✔Currency of information - ✔✔An organization uses a flat-file data management
system. The shipping department reviews notice that shipping costs are increasing by
10% effective immediately. Customers placing new orders are still being billed the old
shipping costs. Which problem is exemplified in this scenario?
✔✔Delays in orders - ✔✔What is a potential result of redundant task in a closed
database environment.
✔✔They lacked the integration needed for information transfers across organizational
boundaries. - ✔✔While in-house, custom-designed systems dealt efficiently with their
designated tasks, they did not provide strategic decision support at the enterprise level.
What is the reason that they lacked support?
✔✔By applying special software patches where needed - ✔✔An organization could
have more than one system in place; there could be an in-house along with a newer
commercial system. How is the communication among many different systems made
possible?
✔✔Real-time decision-making information - ✔✔An enterprise resource planning (ERP)
system is more than simply an elaborate transactions processing system. What else
does an ERP system provide?
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔requires accountants to develop a new skill set in the electronic environment. -
✔✔Authentication
✔✔Users own the data files. - ✔✔What is a characteristic of the flat-file approach to
data management?
✔✔Data storage, data updating, and currency of information - ✔✔Which three types of
data management problems are a result of data redundancy?
✔✔Data updating - ✔✔An organization uses a flat-file data management system. Which
problem is caused when a customers change their address?
✔✔Task-data independence - ✔✔Which flat-file system problem is solved by using a
database approach?
✔✔Key processes of an organization - ✔✔What are order entry, manufacturing,
procurement, accounts payable, payroll and human resources examples of?
✔✔Distinct, separate, and independent databases exist because the data remain in the
application. - ✔✔Why is there a high degree of data redundancy in a closed database
environment?
✔✔Materials requirement list - ✔✔Which list shows the details of vendor shipments and
expected receipts of products and components needed for an order?
✔✔Enterprise resource planning (ERP) system - ✔✔Which system represents multiple
module software packages that evolved primarily from traditional manufacturing
resource planning (MRP II)?
, ✔✔signed invoices - ✔✔What is used in a traditional system to provide proof that a
transaction has occured?
✔✔Public key - ✔✔What was designed to overcome a private key security weakness?
✔✔Verisign, Inc. - ✔✔Which third-party trust organization issues three classes of
certificates?
✔✔Searching electronic transactions for anomalies. - ✔✔What exemplifies the use of
continuous auditing?
✔✔Conversion of data into a secret code - ✔✔What describes encryption?
✔✔Convert cleartext message, encrypt into ciphertext, decode back to cleartext
message - ✔✔Which operation represents the steps for the encryption of data?
✔✔Provides controlled access to a database - ✔✔Which is the role of the database
management system (DBMS)?
✔✔Makes data available for multiple request. - ✔✔What describes an efficient
information system?
✔✔Currency of information - ✔✔An organization uses a flat-file data management
system. The shipping department reviews notice that shipping costs are increasing by
10% effective immediately. Customers placing new orders are still being billed the old
shipping costs. Which problem is exemplified in this scenario?
✔✔Delays in orders - ✔✔What is a potential result of redundant task in a closed
database environment.
✔✔They lacked the integration needed for information transfers across organizational
boundaries. - ✔✔While in-house, custom-designed systems dealt efficiently with their
designated tasks, they did not provide strategic decision support at the enterprise level.
What is the reason that they lacked support?
✔✔By applying special software patches where needed - ✔✔An organization could
have more than one system in place; there could be an in-house along with a newer
commercial system. How is the communication among many different systems made
possible?
✔✔Real-time decision-making information - ✔✔An enterprise resource planning (ERP)
system is more than simply an elaborate transactions processing system. What else
does an ERP system provide?
