IIA IIA-CIA-PART3-3P Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IIA IIA-CIA-PART3-3P Online Questions & Answers

• Question 141:

  For a multinational organization, which of the following is a disadvantage of an ethnocentric staffing policy?

  1) It significantly raises compensation and staffing costs.

  2) It produces resentment among the organization's employees in host countries.

  3) It limits career mobility for parent-country nationals.

  4) It can lead to cultural myopia.

  A. 1 and 4 only
  B. 2 and 3 only
  C. 1, 2, and 3 only
  D. 1, 2, and 4 only
  D. 1, 2, and 4 only

• Question 142:

  Which of the following statements about COBIT is not true?

  A. COBIT helps management understand and manage the risks associated with information technology (IT) processes.
  B. Management needs to determine the cost-benefit ratio of adopting COBIT control objectives.
  C. COBIT control objectives are specific to various IT platforms and help determine minimum controls.
  D. COBIT provides management with the capability to conduct self-assessments against industry best practices.
  C. COBIT control objectives are specific to various IT platforms and help determine minimum controls.

• Question 143:

  A manager has difficulty motivating staff to improve productivity, despite establishing a lucrative individual reward system. Which of the following is most likely the cause of the difficulty?

  A. High degree of masculinity.
  B. Low uncertainty avoidance.
  C. High collectivism.
  D. Low long-term orientation.
  C. High collectivism.

• Question 144:

  Which of the following must be adjusted to index a progressive tax system to inflation?

  A. Tax deductions, exemptions, and tax filings.
  B. Tax deductions, exemptions, and tax brackets.
  C. Tax brackets, tax deductions, and tax payments.
  D. Tax brackets, exemptions, and nominal tax receipts.
  B. Tax deductions, exemptions, and tax brackets.

• Question 145:

  Which of the following is the first step an internal audit activity should undertake when executing a data analytics process?

  A. Conduct a risk assessment regarding the effectiveness of the data analytics process.
  B. Analyze possible and available sources of raw data
  C. Define the purpose and the anticipated value
  D. Select data for cleaning and normalization procedures.
  B. Analyze possible and available sources of raw data

• Question 146:

  Providing knowledge, motivating organizational members, controlling and coordinating individual efforts, and expressing feelings and emotions are all functions of: A. Motivation.

  B. Performance.
  C. Organizational structure.
  D. Communication.
  D. Communication.

• Question 147:

  What are the objectives of governance as defined by the Standards?

  A. Inform, direct, manage, and monitor.
  B. Identify, assess, manage, and control.
  C. Organize, assign, authorize, and implement.
  D. Add value, improve, assure, and conform.
  A. Inform, direct, manage, and monitor.

• Question 148:

  An organization has instituted a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) work environment Which of the following policies best addresses the increased risk to the organization's network incurred by this environment?

  A. Limit the use of the employee devices for personal use to mitigate the risk of exposure to organizational data.
  B. Ensure that relevant access to key applications is strictly controlled through an approval and review process
  C. Institute detection and authentication controls for all devices used for network connectivity and data storage
  D. Use management software to scan and then prompt patch reminders when devices connect to the network
  C. Institute detection and authentication controls for all devices used for network connectivity and data storage

• Question 149:

  When an organization is choosing a new external auditor, which of the following is the most appropriate role for the chief audit executive to undertake?

  A. Review and acquire the external audit service.
  B. Assess the appraisal and actuarial services.
  C. Determine the selection criteria.
  D. Identify regulatory requirements to be considered.
  D. Identify regulatory requirements to be considered.

• Question 150:

  Which of the following price adjustment strategies encourages prompt payment?

  A. Cash discounts.
  B. Quantity discounts.
  C. Functional discounts.
  D. Seasonal discounts.
  A. Cash discounts.