Auditing in CIS Environment

Short Quiz
Wenjun Herminado
BSA III

1. What is meant by Ownership Concept?

Ownership is a status or situation that confers on a
person the greatest range of rights over a property.
 Having title to the property
 Having a property in an object

Ownership can be obtained:

 by purchase
 through a gift
 through a devise (gift) in a will
 by the establishment of a trust
 by operation of law

Ownership of property gives the holder certain rights:

 to transfer ownership in any of the above ways
 to use it as a security for a loan (a mortgage)
 to keep possession and use the item
 to give possession of it to another
 to grant special contractual rights over it
 to commit waste, that is, demolishing a house or allowing it
to fall into disrepair
 abuse or destruction of personal property

2. What is the relationship between schema and subschema?

The schema is a complete description of a database,
including the names and descriptions of all areas, records,
elements, and sets. The major purpose of the schema is to provide
definitions from which to generate subschemas. While a subschema
provides a view of the database as seen by an application
program. This view is often a subset of the complete schema
definition. A subschema is used at runtime to provide the DBMS
with a description of those portions of the database that are
accessible to the application program. Subschemas also allow you
to define logical records. Logical records are a view of one or
more base records and a set of operations performed on those
record,
3. Discuss the importance of the role of the database
administrator. Why such a role necessary in the traditional data
management environment. What tasks are performed by the DBA.

The important roles of the database administrator are

database planning, database design, database operations, and
database change and growth. The database Administrator analyzes
the data and wherever there is a need for additional database
permissions will be granted. In conclusion, DBA’s role becomes
more necessary in the database administration.

4. How can data be centralized in distributed data processing?

Distributed Data processing - is a structured collection of data

stored for use in one or more applications. Contains data + the
relationships between data items and groups of data items.
Distributed database portions of the data are dispersed among
several computer systems.
Data can be stored through:
Centralized - housed in a central computer facility. Desirable
when security and integrity of data are paramount. Other
advantages:
a. can reflect an organization's structure or function.
b. can be stored locally under local control
c. Distributed data across multiple autonomous sites confine the
effects of a computer breakdown to its point of occurrence
d. Size of the total collection of data and the number of users
need not be limited by a computer's size and processing power.

5. Is access control of greater concern in the flat-file or

database file environment?

In the flat-file environment, data and programs were

dependent while in database file environment, all the data is
centrally stored and share when the access control is of greater
concern.