Which of the following would be considered a preventive control?
Answer : C
Forty-five percent of an organization's customer payments are submitted online. Eight percent of online payments are rejected. Executive management decides to outsource its online payment services to a contractor that will assume 75 percent of the total value of rejected payments. The organization estimates $1.25 million customer payments due during the contract period.
Which of the following represents the organization's residual risk for online customer payments due?
Answer : A
An internal audit charter describes the mission and scope of the internal audit activity (IAA), responsibilities of the IAA, accountability of the chief audit executive, independence of the IAA, and standards followed by the IAA. Which of the following also should be included in the charter?
Answer : B
A credit card company detects potential errors in credit card numbers by checking whether all entered numbers contain the correct amount of digits. This is an example of which of the following IT controls?
Answer : A
Which of the following behaviors could represent a significant ethical risk if exhibited by an organization's board?
Answer : B
Which of the following controls could an internal auditor reasonably conclude is effective by observing the physical controls of a large server room?
Answer : A
According to IIA guidance, which of the following statements is true regarding the reporting of results from an external quality assessment of the internal audit activity?
Answer : B