Which term includes all purchased and custom software programs or groups of programs, including internal and external (for example, web) applications?

• A. Audit Log
• B. AES
• C. Application
• D. ANSI

Answer: (C)

This term covers all software programs that run to perform business functions, including purchased software, custom-built programs, and groups of programs that work together, whether they’re internal or external such as web applications. That umbrella concept is what “application” refers to in this context, capturing both in-house and web-based software used to process data or provide services. An audit log, on the other hand, records events and actions, not the software itself. AES is the Advanced Encryption Standard used to protect data, not a software category. ANSI is a standards organization, not a type of software. So the best fit for describing all such software is the term application.