Application Controls

1. Controls which apply to a specific use of the system are called.

a. System controls
b. General controls
c. Application controls
d. User controls
2. Which of the following is not an input control?
a. Proper authorization of transactions
b. Control totals
c. Check digits
d. Adequate documents
3. Which of the following is the purpose of input controls?
a. To ensure the authorization of access to data files.
b. To ensure the completeness, accuracy, and validity of updating.
c. To ensure the completeness, accuracy, and validity of input. 88
d. To ensure the authorization of access to program files.
4. Which of the following is not a processing control?
a. Control totals
b. Logic tests
c. Check digits
d. Compensations tests
5. The most important output control is
a. Distribution control, which assures that only authorized personnel receive
the reports generated by the system.
b. Review of the data for reasonableness by someone who knows what the
output should look like.
c. Control totals, which are used to verify that the computers result are
correct.
d. Logic test, which verify that no mistakes were made in processing.
6. If a control total were to be computed on each of the following data items,
which would be best identified as a hash total for a payroll CIS application?
a. Net pay
b. Hours worked
c. Department numbers
d. Total debits and total credits
7. CIS
a.
b.
c.
d.

Application controls include; except

Controls over input
Controls over processing and computer data files
Controls over output
Monitoring controls

8. Which of the following controls would be correctly classified as an application

controls?
a. Honestly testing to hire only honest individual.
b. Organizationally separating the data processing functions from the
accounting functions.
c. A manually prepared control total to verify that all transactions are
correctly processed through the system.
d. Storing supplies in a locked room with only the supply clerk having a key
to the room.
9. Establish that data are complete and accurate during updating. Example of this are run control
totals, computer matching, and programmed edit checks
a. Data access control
b. Process control
c. Output control
d. Application Control
10. Establish that data are complete and accurate during updating. The major processing controls are
run control totals, computer matching, and programmed edit checks
a. Input Control
b. Process Control
c. Output control
d. Application Control

Application Controls
1. C
2. B
3. A
4. C

Input controls are designed to provide reasonable assurance that

data received for computer processing are complete, accurate, and
valid.
5. C
A check digit is a form of redundancy check used for error detection
on identification numbers, such as bank account numbers, which
are used in an application where they will at least sometimes be
input manually. It is analogous to a binary parity bit used to check
for errors in computer-generated data.
6. A
7. B
8. C
9. D
10. C