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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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1. Used to control connections that are established between systems (1.) TCP (2.) IPC (3.) SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) (4.) RPC (Remote Procedure Call) (5.) NetBIOS
Main types of Controls
Separate administrative accounts
OSI Layer 5: Session
Department Charters
2. An organization that has experienced a sudden increase in its long-distance charges has asked an auditor to investigate. The auditor is most likely to suspect that intruders have discovered a ______________________and is committing toll fraud.
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3. What type of testing is performed to determine if control procedures have proper design and are operating properly?
Formal waterfall
Compliance Testing
Security Awareness program
Hash
4. A sampling technique where at least one exception is sought in a population
Hash
Discovery Sampling
Structural fires and transportation accidents
More difficult to perform
5. An organization experiences frequent malware infections on end-user workstations that are received through email - despite the tact that workstations have anti-virus software. To reducing malware - Implementing ________________ will provide an effect
Prblem Management
Assess the maturity of its business processes
Security Awareness program
Antivirus software on the email servers
6. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.
Service Level Management
The first step in a business impact analysis
The availability of IT systems
An IS audit
7. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.
Sampling
WAN Protocols
A Financial Audit
Sampling Risk
8. One of a database table's fields - whose value is unique.
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
A Compliance audit
Frameworks
Database primary key
9. An organization wants to reduce the number of user IDs and passwords that its employees need to remember. The best available solution to this - _______________. This provides a single authentication service (such as LDAP or AD) that many applications
Balanced Scorecard
Volumes of COSO framework
Reduced sign-on
The Requirements
10. A sampling technique where items are chosen at random; each item has a statistically equal probability of being chosen.
A Financial Audit
Volumes of COSO framework
Statistical Sampling
Six steps of the Release Management process
11. 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.
Information systems access
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
Project change request
An Administrative
12. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.
Structural fires and transportation accidents
An Operational Audit
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
Business Realization
13. 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.
Main types of Controls
The BCP process
Control Risk
IT executives and the Board of Directors
14. A tightly coupled collection of computers that are used to solve a common task. One or more actively perform tasks - while zero or more may be in a standby state.
Assess the maturity of its business processes
A Server Cluster
Attribute Sampling
Resource details
15. 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.
Critical Path Methodology
Registers
Cloud computing
Prblem Management
16. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
Capability Maturity Model
Six steps of the Release Management process
Grid Computing
17. n audit strategy and plans that include: (1.) Scope (2.) Objectives (3.) Resources (4.) Procedures used to evaluation controls and processes
The audit program
Geographic location
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
less than 24 hours
18. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records
Grid Computing
Function Point Analysis
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
19. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
Attribute Sampling
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
TCP/IP Transport Layer
20. (1.) IP (2.) ICMP (3.) RRC (Radio Resource Control) (4.) AppleTalk
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
Network Layer Protocols
Statistical Sampling
Capability Maturity Model
21. An organization is building a data center in an area frequented by power outages. The organization cannot tolerate power outages. The best _________________solution is an electric generator and an uninterruptible power supply. The UPS responds to the
The BCP process
Power system controls
Audit Methodologies
IT executives and the Board of Directors
22. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review
The first step in a business impact analysis
Employee termination process
Formal waterfall
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
23. The 5 types of risks that are related to audits include: (1.) Control Risk (2.) Detection Risk (3.) Inherent risk (4.) _____________ (5.) Sampling risk
Detection Risk
Business impact analysis
Database primary key
Overall audit risk
24. The purpose of an auditor doing interviews - To observe personnel to better understand their discipline - as well as ______________.
Organizational culture and maturity
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
SDLC Phases
Capability Maturity Model
25. A database administrator has been asked to configure a database management system so that it records all changes made by users - The DBA should implement ___________. This will cause the database to record every change that is made to it.
An Integrated Audit
Audit logging
Network Layer Protocols
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
26. IS auditors can _____________________ through the following means: (1.) training courses (2.) webinars (3.) ISACA chapter training events (4.) Industry conferences
Stay current with technology
CPU
Function Point Analysis
Examples of Application Controls
27. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider
Primary security features of relational databases
The Eight Types of Audits
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
Database primary key
28. An audit of operational efficiency.
Criticality analysis
Structural fires and transportation accidents
An Administrative
Function Point Analysis
29. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.
Advantages of outsourcing
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
Confidence coefficient
An Integrated Audit
30. An audit report usually includes the following 10 elements: (1.) Cover letter (2.) Introduction (3.) Summary (4.) Audit description (5.) _______________ (6.) Interviewees (7.) Evidence (8.) Explanation of sampling techniques (9.) Findings (10.) Recom
Volumes of COSO framework
Judgmental sampling
List of systems examined
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
31. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
Resource details
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
32. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP
Transport Layer Protocols
Precision means
Deming Cycle
Cloud computing
33. An organization has chosen to open a business office in another country where labor costs are lower and has hired workers to perform business functions there. - The organization is ___________ - while they may have opened the office in a foreign coun
Insourcing
Input validation checking
Reduced sign-on
Blade Computer Architecture
34. Gantt: used to display ______________.
Resource details
A Server Cluster
Attribute Sampling
Security Awareness program
35. 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
Database primary key
Variable Sampling
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
36. An organization has discovered that some of its employees have criminal records. The best course of action for the organization to take - The organization should have ___________________ on all of its existing employees and also begin instituting bac
The first step in a business impact analysis
Background checks performed
Attribute Sampling
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
37. Guide program execution through organization of resources and development of clear project objectives.
A Compliance audit
Project Management Strategies
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
Examples of IT General Controls
38. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application
TCP/IP Network Model
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
TCP/IP Link Layer
Reduced sign-on
39. 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.
Assess the maturity of its business processes
The Software Program Library
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
Testing activities
40. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
Statement of Impact
Business impact analysis
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
41. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.
Database primary key
Prblem Management
Deming Cycle
Transport Layer Protocols
42. (1.) Authentication (2.) Authorization (3.) Change Management (4.) Completeness checks (5.) Validation checks (6.) Input controls (7.) Output controls (8.) Problem management (9.) Identification/access controls
General Controls
Examples of Application Controls
Elements of the COSO pyramid
Precision means
43. (1.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas
Sample Standard Deviation
List of systems examined
Dimensions of the COSO cube
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
44. Consists of 11 distinct activities: (1.) Service Desk (2.) Incident Management (3.) Problem Management (4.) Change Management (5.) Configuration Management (6.) Release Management (7.) Service-level Management (8.) Financial Management (9.) Capacity
less than 24 hours
Business impact analysis
IT Service Management
The Eight Types of Audits
45. (1.) Access controls (2.) Encryption (3.) Audit logging
Primary security features of relational databases
Notify the Audit Committee
The Business Process Life Cycle
Foreign Key
46. An auditor has reviewed access privileges of some employees and has discovered that employees with longer terms of service have excessive privileges. This means User privileges are not being removed from their old position when they transfer to a new
Employees with excessive privileges
Overall audit risk
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
Information security policy
47. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.
A Compliance audit
Statistical Sampling
An Integrated Audit
Buffers
48. An external IS auditor has discovered a _______________________ - The external auditor can only document the finding in the audit report. An external auditor is not in a position to implement controls.
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
Service Continuity Management
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
Incident Management
49. A sampling technique where a population is divided into classes or strata - based upon the value of one of the attributes. Samples are then selected from each class.
Compliance Testing
Assess the maturity of its business processes
Stratified Sampling
The availability of IT systems
50. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.
Referential Integrity
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
Confidence coefficient
Release management