36. IS management has recently informed the IS auditor of its decision
to disable certain referential integrity controls in the payroll
system to provide users with a faster report generator. This will MOST
likely increase the risk of:
A. data entry by unauthorized users.
B. a nonexistent employee being paid.
C. an employee receiving an unauthorized raise.
D. duplicate data entry by authorized users.
The correct answer is:
B. a nonexistent employee being paid.
Explanation:
Referential integrity controls prevent the occurrence of unmatched
foreign key values. Given that a nonexistent employee does not appear
in the employees table, there will never be a corresponding entry in
the salary payment's table. The other choices cannot be detected by
referential integrity controls.