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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 0. No process at all (1.) Process are ad hoc and disorganized (2.) Consistent processes (3.) Documented processes (4.) Measured and managed processes (5.) Processes are continuously improved
SDLC Phases
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
Overall audit risk
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
2. Should include 4 steps: (1.) Emergency Approval (2.) Implementation (3.) Verification (4.) Review
Emergency Changes
Data Link Layer Standards
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
Service Continuity Management
3. 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
Six steps of the Release Management process
Notify the Audit Committee
Power system controls
Critical Path Methodology
4. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.
Audit logging
IT Strategy
The Eight Types of Audits
IT Services Financial Management
5. (1.) Feasibility Study (2.) Definition of Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation phase
Current and most up-to-date
Assess the maturity of its business processes
SDLC Phases
An IS audit
6. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - as the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient.
Categories of risk treatment
Sampling Risk
Change management
Blade Computer Architecture
7. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider
The Eight Types of Audits
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
Inform the auditee
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
8. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine how many samples possess a specific characteristic.
Documentation and interview personnel
Server cluster
Statistical Sampling
Attribute Sampling
9. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.
Reduced sign-on
A Cold Site
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
Application Controls
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.
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
Testing activities
Application Layer protocols
11. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.
A gate process
Sampling
An Administrative
IT Strategy
12. An estimate that expresses the percent of errors or exceptions that may exist in an entire population
Examples of Application Controls
Expected Error Rate
Function Point Analysis
Information systems access
13. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)
Control Unit
Critical Path Methodology
Overall audit risk
Information security policy
14. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time
Inform the auditee
Statement of Impact
Hash
Tolerable Error Rate
15. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration
Balanced Scorecard
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
The audit program
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
16. 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
Attribute Sampling
Primary security features of relational databases
List of systems examined
Stay current with technology
17. ____________________ of the hot site is most important consideration for site selection. IF they are too close together then a single event may involve both locations
Server cluster
Geographic location
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
Project change request
18. What activity involves the identification of potential risk and the appropriate response for each threat based on impact assessment using qualitative and/or quantitative measures for an enterprise-wide risk management strategy?
TCP/IP Internet Layer
List of systems examined
Risk Management
Precision means
19. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
A Problem
OSI: Network Layer
CPU
20. To determine effectiveness of a disaster recovery program - an IT auditor should examine _____________.
Variable Sampling
objective and unbiased
Documentation and interview personnel
Sample Standard Deviation
21. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.
Detection Risk
Network Layer Protocols
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
Options for Risk Treatment
22. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.
Formal waterfall
Structural fires and transportation accidents
A Server Cluster
List of systems examined
23. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample
The Software Program Library
Sample Standard Deviation
Six steps of the Release Management process
Primary security features of relational databases
24. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment
Audit Methodologies
CPU
Six steps of the Release Management process
TCP/IP Network Model
25. A quantitative risk analysis is __________________ because: It is difficult to get accurate figures on the frequency of specific threats. It is difficult to determine the probability that a threat will be realized. It is relatively easy to determine
More difficult to perform
A Server Cluster
Capability Maturity Model
Controls
26. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.
Information security policy
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
Power system controls
Options for Risk Treatment
27. The primary source for test plans in a software development project is: ________________ that are developed for a project should be the primary source for detailed tests.
The Requirements
Reduced sign-on
An IS audit
Elements of the COBIT Framework
28. 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
Overall audit risk
Risk Management
The Steering Committee
29. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.
Antivirus software on the email servers
TCP/IP Transport Layer
OSI Layer 7: Application
A Cold Site
30. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.
OSI: Transport Layer
Primary security features of relational databases
Employee termination process
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
31. Framework for auditing and measuring IT Service Management Processes.
Business Realization
PERT Diagram?
ISO 20000 Standard:
Critical Path Methodology
32. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.
Statistical Sampling
Employees with excessive privileges
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
Judgmental sampling
33. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.
Department Charters
Business impact analysis
Registers
Inform the auditee
34. Used to measure the relative maturity of an organization and its processes.
Notify the Audit Committee
Capability Maturity Model
Split custody
An Administrative
35. An audit of a third-party organization that provides services to other organizations.
Expected Error Rate
Vulnerability in the organization's PBX
A Service Provider audit
Foreign Key
36. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.
The first step in a business impact analysis
Change management
Detection Risk
Power system controls
37. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.
Sampling Risk
Sample Standard Deviation
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
38. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.
OSI Layer 5: Session
Information security policy
TCP/IP Link Layer
More difficult to perform
39. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Governance and control framework (3.) Control Objectives (4.) Management Guidelines (5.) Implementation Guide (6.) IT Assurance Guide
Categories of risk treatment
Gantt Chart
Elements of the COBIT Framework
The two Categories of Controls
40. Gantt: used to display ______________.
Resource details
The Release process
Expected Error Rate
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
41. 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.
Inform the auditee
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
42. Collections of Controls that work together to achieve an entire range of an organization's objectives.
Audit logging
Frameworks
A gate process
Security Awareness program
43. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality
Criticality analysis
Elements of the COSO pyramid
Audit Methodologies
Function Point Analysis
44. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.
Sampling Risk
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
Sampling
45. 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.
Categories of risk treatment
Business impact analysis
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
Project change request
46. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.
Emergency Changes
Documentation and interview personnel
The Eight Types of Audits
OSI: Physical Layer
47. To review and approve proposed changes to systems and infrastructure. This helps to reduce the risk of unintended events and unplanned downtime.
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
Change management
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
Department Charters
48. 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
Risk Management
Frameworks
The Business Process Life Cycle
Service Level Management
49. Information is arranged in frames and transported across the medium. Collision detection. Checksum verification of delivery.
Inherent Risk
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Separate administrative accounts
OSI: Data Link Layer
50. Who is responsible for imposing an IT governance model encompassing IT strategy - information security - and formal enterprise architectural mandates?
Risk Management
Statement of Impact
Formal waterfall
IT executives and the Board of Directors