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2 questions in Control Design vs Operation.
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Control Design vs Operation beginner Multiple choice
A quarterly access review is documented, approved and assigned an owner. The evidence shows it was performed in January and in September, and not in the other two quarters. The auditor calls the control ineffective. The owner argues the control is well designed. Who is right?
2 min answer controlsdesign effectivenessoperating effectivenessevidence -
Control Design vs Operation beginner
On 31 January 2017 GitLab lost about six hours of database data after an engineer removed the wrong directory during replication troubleshooting. The company had five backup and replication mechanisms. None of them produced a usable recent restore. What does that say about the difference between a control being designed and a control operating?
2 min answer gitlabbackupscontrolsrestore-testing