Question 1:

You are a staff accountant and your department's representative to a major new accounting applications system project. Your role is that of a problem domain (accounting) expert on a team that consists of systems analysts, application developers (programmers), and representatives from other accounting functions in your organization.

In the kick-off meeting for the project, one of the presenters used the phrase "protect the sanctity of the production system."

You agree to have coffee with one of the systems analysts who asks you the following questions:

1. What was the presenter mean by "sanctity of the production system?"
2. What are the potential consequences of a "failure to protect the sanctity of the production system?"

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Answer the above questions. Your answers should describe the change control process, address ownership of applications and data, and discuss segregation of duties, both generally and in an information technology environment.

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