Investigators revealed the information that...

Managers at a New York City import-export company suspected that two employees were robbing it. Corporate Defense Strategies (CDS) of Maywood, New Jersey, advised the firm to plan and install a software program that could secretly log every single stroke of the suspects’ computer keys and send an encrypted e-mail report to CDS. Investigators revealed that the two employees were deleting orders from the corporate books after processing them, pocketing the revenues, and building their own company from within. The programme picked up on their plan to return to the office late one night to steal a large shipment of electronics. Police hid in the rafters of the firm’s warehouse, and when the suspects entered, they were arrested. The pair were charged with embezzling $3 million over two and a half years, a sizable amount of revenue for a $25 million-a-year firm.

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 2

The correct answer is Option (2) → That the two employees were deleting orders from the corporate books after processing them, pocketing the revenues, and building their own company from within.

Option (1) That the employees were deleting orders from the corporate books and pocketing the revenues only. — Incorrect. The word “only” makes it wrong. The investigators found a third thing as well: the two were building their own company from within.
Option (2) That the two employees were deleting orders from the corporate books after processing them, pocketing the revenues, and building their own company from within. — Correct. This is the full finding given in the passage: deleting orders after processing them, pocketing the revenues, and building their own company from within. The secret record of their key strokes is what brought it to light.
Option (3) That the many employees were building their own company. — Incorrect. Only two employees were suspected and caught, not many.
Option (4) That the two employees were learning from the corporate books after processing them, and building their own company from within. — Incorrect. The employees were deleting orders from the books, not learning from them.

Note: The passage is the NCERT box ‘Control Through Computer Monitoring’, which has been reproduced by NTA in the exam. This story sits in a small box in the Controlling chapter. Read NCERT fully, boxes too, because NTA does.

NCERT (2026-27 Edition): “Control Through Computer Monitoring Managers at a New York City import-export company suspected that two employees were robbing it. Corporate Defense Strategies (CDS) of Maywood, New Jersey, advised the firm to install a software program that could secretly log every single stroke of the suspects’ computer keys and send an encrypted e-mail report to CDS. Investigators revealed that the two employees were deleting orders from the corporate books after processing them, pocketing the revenues, and building their own company from within. …”

Investigators revealed the information that...

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 2

Option (1) That the employees were deleting orders from the corporate books and pocketing the revenues only. — Incorrect. The word “only” makes it wrong. The investigators found a third thing as well: the two were building their own company from within.
Option (2) That the two employees were deleting orders from the corporate books after processing them, pocketing the revenues, and building their own company from within. — Correct. This is the full finding given in the passage: deleting orders after processing them, pocketing the revenues, and building their own company from within. The secret record of their key strokes is what brought it to light.
Option (3) That the many employees were building their own company. — Incorrect. Only two employees were suspected and caught, not many.
Option (4) That the two employees were learning from the corporate books after processing them, and building their own company from within. — Incorrect. The employees were deleting orders from the books, not learning from them.