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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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1. Deliver messages from one station to another on the same network or on different networks. Messaging at this layer is not guaranteed.
Risk Management
TCP/IP Internet Layer
Current and most up-to-date
Formal waterfall
2. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.
Configuration Management
An Administrative
Elements of the COBIT Framework
A Sample Mean
3. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.
Sampling
Blade Computer Architecture
Sample Standard Deviation
Sampling Risk
4. (1.) General (2.) Application
Release management
Business impact analysis
The BCP process
Main types of Controls
5. (1.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication
OSI: Transport Layer
Elements of the COSO pyramid
Statement of Impact
Sample Standard Deviation
6. An audit of operational efficiency.
An Administrative
TCP/IP Link Layer
Gantt Chart
Capability Maturity Model
7. A representation of how closely a sample represents an entire population.
Precision means
Function Point Analysis
The BCP process
Antivirus software on the email servers
8. The main hardware component of a computer system - which executes instructions in computer programs.
CPU
PERT Diagram?
Balanced Scorecard
Primary security features of relational databases
9. (1.) IP (2.) ICMP (3.) RRC (Radio Resource Control) (4.) AppleTalk
OSI Layer 5: Session
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Network Layer Protocols
The Release process
10. During the development phase - Developers should only be performing Unit Testing - to verify that the individual sections of code they have written are performing properly.
Input validation checking
Judgmental sampling
Split custody
Testing activities
11. (1.) Access Control (2.) Change Management (3.) Security Controls (4.) Incident Management (5.) SDLC (6.) Source code and versioning controls (7.) Monitoring and logging (8.) Event Management
Function Point Analysis
The two Categories of Controls
Examples of IT General Controls
Statistical Sampling
12. What type of testing is performed to determine if control procedures have proper design and are operating properly?
Compliance Testing
Tolerable Error Rate
The BCP process
Entire password for an encryption key
13. n audit strategy and plans that include: (1.) Scope (2.) Objectives (3.) Resources (4.) Procedures used to evaluation controls and processes
Function Point Analysis
The audit program
Substantive Testing
Inherent Risk
14. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.
Application Layer protocols
Release management
Project change request
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
15. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
Cloud computing
Business impact analysis
List of systems examined
16. During an audit - the auditor should obtain 6 types of documents - (1.) Org charts (2.) ___________ (3.) third-party contracts (4.) policies and procedures (5.) standards (6.) system documentation
List of systems examined
The Release process
Department Charters
Statement of Impact
17. What type of testing is performed to verify the accuracy and integrity of transactions as they flow through a system?
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
The audit program
Substantive Testing
Detection Risk
18. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.
Control Unit
OSI: Physical Layer
OSI: Data Link Layer
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
19. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.
Employees with excessive privileges
Service Level Management
Insourcing
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
20. The risk that a material error exists that will not be prevented or detected by the organization's control framework - The possibility that a process or procedure will be unable to prevent or deter serious errors and wrongdoing.
Control Risk
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
Three Types of Controls
21. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment
Six steps of the Release Management process
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
Power system controls
General Controls
22. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.
IT Services Financial Management
TCP/IP Transport Layer
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
CPU
23. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine how many samples possess a specific characteristic.
Audit Methodologies
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
Attribute Sampling
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
24. Collections of Controls that work together to achieve an entire range of an organization's objectives.
Business Continuity
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
Frameworks
Judgmental sampling
25. A programmer is updating an application that saves passwords in plaintext. In this case - Passwords should be stored in a _____. This makes it impossible for any person to retrieve a password - which could lead to account compromise.
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
Transport Layer Protocols
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
Hash
26. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.
Blade Computer Architecture
IT Strategy
Assess the maturity of its business processes
The Business Process Life Cycle
27. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery
Server cluster
Elements of the COSO pyramid
Organizational culture and maturity
OSI: Transport Layer
28. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices
Statistical Sampling
BCP Plans
Resource details
Information security policy
29. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.
SDLC Phases
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Input validation checking
Stay current with technology
30. Aids in the coordinating of business processes using a sequence of three events -(1.) Business process creation (2.) Implementation (3.) Maintenance 3a. Benchmarking: Facilitates continuous improvement within the BPLC
The Business Process Life Cycle
Precision means
BCP Plans
An Integrated Audit
31. A technique that is used to identify the most critical path in a project to understand which tasks are most likely to affect the project schedule.
Elements of the COSO pyramid
Audit Methodologies
Critical Path Methodology
TCP/IP Internet Layer
32. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.
Current and most up-to-date
Sampling
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
Main types of Controls
33. A critical application is backed up once per day. The recovery point objective (RPO) for an application that is backed up once per day cannot be ________.
less than 24 hours
Critical Path Methodology
Categories of risk treatment
Application Controls
34. A CMM helps an organization to _______________ - which is an important first step to any large-scale process improvement effort.
Elements of the COBIT Framework
Detection Risk
Confidence coefficient
Assess the maturity of its business processes
35. A sampling technique used to permit sampling to stop at the earliest possible time. This technique is used when the auditor feels that there is a low risk or low rate of exceptions in the population.
A Service Provider audit
Antivirus software on the email servers
Stop-or-go Sampling
Reduced sign-on
36. A software developer has informed the project manager that a portion of the application development is going to take five additional days to complete. The project manager make a __________________ to document the reason for the change.
TCP/IP Internet Layer
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
Project change request
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
37. IS auditors can _____________________ through the following means: (1.) training courses (2.) webinars (3.) ISACA chapter training events (4.) Industry conferences
Stay current with technology
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
Tolerable Error Rate
Department Charters
38. A collection of two or more servers that is designed to appear as a single server.
Server cluster
Business Realization
The first step in a business impact analysis
Sampling
39. (1.) Develop a BC Policy (2.) Conduct BIA (3.) Perform critical analysis (4.) Establish recovery targets (5.) Develop recovery and continuity strategies and plans (6.) Test recovery and continuity plans and procedures Train personnel Maintain strateg
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
TCP/IP Network Model
Transport Layer Protocols
The BCP process
40. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.
Business impact analysis
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
Buffers
41. The result of strategic planning - process development - and systems development - which all contribute towards a launch of business operations to reach a set of business objectives.
Project Management Strategies
Prblem Management
Business Realization
A Cold Site
42. An auditor has discovered that several administrators in an application share an administrative account. The auditor should recommend that - Several __________________ should be used. This will enforce accountability for each administrator's actions.
Project change request
The Software Program Library
Separate administrative accounts
Six steps of the Release Management process
43. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application
TCP/IP Network Model
Balanced Scorecard
Documentation and interview personnel
Confidence coefficient
44. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified
Data Link Layer Standards
General Controls
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
Controls
45. A Fire sprinkler system has water in its pipes - and sprinkler heads emit water only if the ambient temperature reaches 220 deg. F. This is a ________________. The system is charged with water and will discharge water out of any sprinkler head whose
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
Tolerable Error Rate
Audit Methodologies
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
46. Any event which is not part of the standard operation of service and which causes or may cause an interruption to or reduction in quality of that service. Includes THREE incident types: (1.) Service Outage (2.) Service Slowdown (3.) Software Bug
Gantt Chart
Incident Management
Categories of risk treatment
Elements of the COBIT Framework
47. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)
WAN Protocols
Control Unit
ISO 20000 Standard:
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
48. Subjective sampling is used when the auditor wants to _________________________.
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
Antivirus software on the email servers
Emergency Changes
Incident Management
49. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
An Administrative
Business Realization
Statistical Sampling
50. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.
less than 24 hours
A Compliance audit
Data Link Layer Standards
The Requirements