Chapter 8 Management Information Systems Questions With Detailed Rationales Answers

Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) - correct answers Defines acceptable uses of the firm's information resources and computing equipment including desktop and laptop computers, wireless devices, telephones, and the Internet, and specifies consequences for noncompliance Antivirus software - correct answers Software designed to detect, and often eliminate, computer viruses from an information system Application controls - correct answers Specific controls unique to each computerized application that ensure that only authorized data are completely and accurately processed by that application Authentication - correct answers The ability of each party in a transaction to ascertain the identity of the other party Biometric authentication - correct answers Technology for authenticating system users that compares a person's unique characteristics such as fingerprints, face, or retinal image, against a stored set profile of these characteristics Botnet - correct answers A group of computers that have been infected with bot malware without users' knowledge, enabling a hacker to use the amassed resources of the computers to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks, phishing campaigns or spam Bugs - correct answers Software program code defects Business continuity planning - correct answers Planning that focuses on how the company can restore business operations after a disaster strikes Click fraud - correct answers Fraudulently clicking on an online ad in pay per click advertising to generate an improper charge per click