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Classify internal audit findings

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Objectives

Northstar's first internal audit produced six findings. Accept the ones that are only observations (no requirement is unmet) and reject the rest as a major or minor nonconformity.

Room rubric: major means a required process is missing or has failed across the board. Minor means an isolated failure in a process that otherwise works. Observation means an improvement idea with no unmet requirement.

Verdicts are accept or reject. Every rejection needs one reason code from: major | minor.

Six internal audit findings

A-01 | No internal audit programme exists and no audits were held in the last twelve months.
A-02 | One of twelve monthly access reviews was done eleven days late; the other eleven were on time and complete.
A-03 | The auditor suggests clearer colours on the risk dashboard. Every required risk report was produced and reviewed.
A-04 | Management review has never been held, so no decisions on resources, risks or objectives were recorded.
A-05 | The auditor suggests merging two overlapping awareness modules. Training records show every in-scope person completed training.
A-06 | One leaver kept access for five days past the leaving date; the other 37 leavers were removed on time.

Checks the server runs (3)

  • Every line in the fixture carries a verdict
  • Accept and reject land on the right lines
  • Each rejection cites a valid reason code

Check names are all you see here: the expectations that decide pass or fail, and the reference solution, stay on the server.

Step-by-step hints

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  1. Step 1

    Read the request before the artefact

    Treat each finding on its own.

  2. Step 2

    Judge every line, including the boring ones

    Give a verdict for all six findings.

    Every line in the fixture carries a verdict

  3. Step 3

    Separate what is wrong from what is merely ugly

    Accept only findings where nothing required is missing.

    Accept and reject land on the right lines

  4. Step 4

    Say why, in the vocabulary the programme uses

    Pick major for an absent or failed process, minor for a one-off slip.

    Each rejection cites a valid reason code

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