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Your company has identified the following risk regarding its pricing process: “Collusion between a pricing employee and a purchaser to award contracts via insider information or kick-backs may result in financial loss.” Choose from the list below the control activity that would not help mitigate this pricing-related risk. 

Suppose you have two tables: Employees which can be considered the ‘left’ table and Departments which can be considered the ‘right’ table.  The Employees table contains information about employees, including their employee_id, employee_name, and department_id.  The Departments table contains information about departments, including their department_id and department_name. You want to retrieve a list of all employees and their corresponding department names, including employees who are not assigned to any department.  Which of the following join(s) should you use for this purpose?

Which of the following statements about the preparation and use of a Level 0 data flow diagram (DFD) is false?  

A digital factory (often using digital twins in its processes) that is connected, networked, and fully integrated creates opportunities to minimize costs of downtime and underperformance in production and to enable the best output from factory assets and employees. Which of the following is not an advantage and/or opportunity that companies see by using digital manufacturing?  

Another common red flag of fraud is journal entries that have been posted and approved by the same person which violates the segregation of duties concept.  Your client informs you that a calculation of [Posted By]=[Approved By] can be a helpful way of addressing this question.   What was the total dollar amount of journal entries posted and approved by the same employee(s)? (Round answer to the nearest whole number, e.g., 437.70 would be rounded to 438)

You’ve been asked to analyze some Human Resource and Payroll data that is stored in two different tables.  To start your analysis you join the data tables in such a way so that only matches across both tables remain (i.e., records or values that do not have a match are dropped entirely). What type of join have you performed?  

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Consider the following quadratic equation: Using the standard form of the given quadratic equation, factor the left-hand side of the equation into two linear factors.

Completely factor the expression, if possible.

Completely factor the polynomial, if possible.