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ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE OF COMMERCE (AUTONOMOUS)
END SEMESTER EXAMINATION – OCTOBER 2013
M.COM – III SEMESTER
ADVANCED COMPUTER APPLICATION IN BUSINESS
Duration: 3 hours Max. Marks: 100
SECTION – A
I) Answer any SEVEN of the following questions. (7×5=35)
1. What are the primary characteristics of open system? In what way is a system
entropic?
2. Is there any role for an accountant in SDLC. Explain?
3. Explain any five categories of Internet Security Threats?
4. When should testing start and stop?
5. When and how requirement testing used? What are its objectives?
6. Explain the different types of Information System Auditing approaches?
7. Explain BPO infrastructure.
8. Explain the major objectives of Information System audit?
9. “The move towards more automated financial statements has had an impact in
the way auditor’s carry out their work”-Explain?
10. Explain the term value of information?
SECTION – B
II. Answer any THREE questions from the following: (3×15=45)
11. Explain SDLC with a neat diagram.
12. Explain any three departments of a company where Information Technology
is used to gain advantage?
13. Explain the following with example programs in HTML.
a) How to organize text in web page? Explain the different types of listing
in HTML ? (10 Marks)
b) How to insert an image in web page? What are its attributes? (5 Marks)
14. Briefly describe the eight phases of plan formulation in BCP?
15. “Real time recording needs real time auditing to provide continuous
assurance about the quality of data, thus continuous auditing”-Explain?
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SECTION – C
IV) Compulsory Question (1×20=20)
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In the late 1990’s Phil Gilmour was managing partner of Armstrong Gilmour, a
Walnut Creek California based accounting and consulting firm. A significant
portion of the firm’s business involved administrating private pension funds
for individual clients. Client’s pension and investment data was stored in a
company database, and clients could go online to access the database and
check the status of their accounts.
The portion of the business dedicated to managing pension funds was
growing fast-too fast. Unable to handle the increasing traffic, the database
crashed. Fortunately the company’s computer system had a back up and so
client’s data was safe-or so Gilmour thought. When the company attempted to
restore the pension data from the backup tapes, it found that the data on the
tapes was corrupted. The only option left was an expensive and agonizing one.
Employees at the firm had to spend long hours over the next several weeks
recreating the database manually. But the total cost of the disaster to
Armstrong Gilmour may have been much greater than just the employee time
and thousands of dollars consumed by the database restoration process.
Gilmour, who eventually sold the firm, believes the company lost credibility
with some of its clients after the database crash, and that this loss of credibility
ultimately resulted in millions of dollars of lost value in goodwill.
Questions:
1. Explain the importance of having a backup plan of business records for
Armstrong Gilmour?
2. What was the risk associated with the backup facility of Armstrong
Gilmour. What are the remedies you can suggest?
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