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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A large number of loosely coupled computers that are used to solve a common task may be in close proximity to each other or scattered over a large geographical area.
Change management
Grid Computing
ISO 20000 Standard:
Risk Management
2. ____________________ 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
The Software Program Library
Geographic location
Elements of the COBIT Framework
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
3. Used to schedule and sequence activities in a waterfall-type representation. Planned activities are shown flowing downward to completion. More simplistic than a PERT Diagram.
The Software Program Library
Recovery time objective
Prblem Management
Gantt Chart
4. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
Elements of the COBIT Framework
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
An Operational Audit
5. Gantt: used to display ______________.
Advantages of outsourcing
Overall audit risk
Resource details
Capability Maturity Model
6. A representation of how closely a sample represents an entire population.
IT Strategy
Stop-or-go Sampling
The Eight Types of Audits
Precision means
7. A dynamically scalable and usually virtualized computing environment that is provided as a service. Clout computing services may be rented or leased so that an organization can have a scalable application without the need for supporting hardware.
Cloud computing
OSI Layer 5: Session
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
Precision means
8. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment
Geographic location
Release management
Six steps of the Release Management process
Compliance Testing
9. A collection of two or more servers that is designed to appear as a single server.
Server cluster
Primary security features of relational databases
A Service Provider audit
OSI: Physical Layer
10. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.
Control Risk
Stratified Sampling
A Problem
OSI: Physical Layer
11. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
A Virtual Server
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
Business impact analysis
12. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance
OSI Layer 7: Application
Options for Risk Treatment
Judgmental sampling
objective and unbiased
13. The process of recording the configuration of IT systems. Each configuration setting is known in ITSM parlance as a Configuration Item.
Six steps of the Release Management process
Database primary key
Configuration Management
Confidence coefficient
14. 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.
Separate administrative accounts
Release management
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
15. Guide program execution through organization of resources and development of clear project objectives.
Testing activities
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
Separate administrative accounts
Project Management Strategies
16. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample
Sample Standard Deviation
Application Layer protocols
Six steps of the Release Management process
Employee termination process
17. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.
Referential Integrity
OSI: Physical Layer
Incident Management
TCP/IP Transport Layer
18. An IS auditor is auditing the change management process for a financial application. The auditor has two primary pieces of evidence: change logs and a written analysis of the change logs performed by a business analyst. The change log is best because
OSI Layer 5: Session
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
objective and unbiased
A Service Provider audit
19. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.
Service Continuity Management
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
A Service Provider audit
Business impact analysis
20. The set of activities that is concerned with the ability of the organization to continue to provide services - primarily in the event that a natural or man made disaster has occurred.
Balanced Scorecard
Employee termination process
Function Point Analysis
Service Continuity Management
21. 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.
Testing activities
Stop-or-go Sampling
Database primary key
Blade Computer Architecture
22. 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.
Hash
Release management
Organizational culture and maturity
Split custody
23. 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.
TCP/IP Link Layer
Business impact analysis
Control Risk
Sampling Risk
24. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.
A Virtual Server
Input validation checking
Information security policy
Audit logging
25. An active - instance of a server operating system running on a machine that is designed to house two or more such virtual servers.
Registers
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
Server cluster
A Virtual Server
26. Deliver messages from one station to another on the same network or on different networks. Messaging at this layer is not guaranteed.
TCP/IP Internet Layer
More difficult to perform
OSI: Physical Layer
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
27. The memory locations in the CPU where arithmetic values are stored.
Registers
TCP/IP Network Model
IT Services Financial Management
Critical Path Methodology
28. The means by which management establishes and measures processes by which organizational objectives are achieved
Hash
Precision means
Controls
OSI Layer 5: Session
29. The portion of IT management that tracks the financial value of IT services that support organizational objectives. It includes 4 activities: (1.) Budgeting (2.) Capital Investment (3.) Expense Management (4.) Project accounting and project ROI (Ret
Stay current with technology
Background checks performed
IT Services Financial Management
OSI: Network Layer
30. What type of testing is performed to verify the accuracy and integrity of transactions as they flow through a system?
Vulnerability in the organization's PBX
Sample Standard Deviation
Main types of Controls
Substantive Testing
31. An auditor has detected potential fraud while testing a control objective - He should ___________________. Because Audit committee members are generally not involved in business operations - they will be sufficiently remove from the matter - and they
Notify the Audit Committee
Overall audit risk
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
Application Controls
32. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
TCP/IP Transport Layer
Control Unit
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
33. A condition that is the result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms e.g. A web application is displaying information incorrectly and many users have contacted the IT service desk.
Discovery Sampling
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
A Problem
More difficult to perform
34. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.
Discovery Sampling
Advantages of outsourcing
A Sample Mean
Volumes of COSO framework
35. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
Blade Computer Architecture
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
Information security policy
36. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.
Structural fires and transportation accidents
IT executives and the Board of Directors
A gate process
Data Link Layer Standards
37. (1.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas
A Server Cluster
The Software Program Library
Dimensions of the COSO cube
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
38. An IS auditor needs to perform an audit of a financial system and needs to trace individual transactions through the system. What type of testing should the auditor perform?
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Power system controls
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
39. 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.
Sampling Risk
More difficult to perform
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
40. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices
Hash
BCP Plans
ISO 20000 Standard:
An Administrative
41. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
Transport Layer Protocols
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
The Eight Types of Audits
42. Collections of Controls that work together to achieve an entire range of an organization's objectives.
Organizational culture and maturity
TCP/IP Link Layer
Audit Methodologies
Frameworks
43. 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
Compliance Testing
A Cold Site
Antivirus software on the email servers
Judgmental sampling
44. A condition often identified as a result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms. Problems can also be identified from a single significant incident for which the impact is significant.
Stop-or-go Sampling
Audit Methodologies
Grid Computing
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
45. Support the functioning of the application controls
Judgmental sampling
General Controls
Formal waterfall
Configuration Management
46. To measure organizational performance and effectiveness against strategic goals.
Information systems access
Balanced Scorecard
TCP/IP Internet Layer
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
47. To determine effectiveness of a disaster recovery program - an IT auditor should examine _____________.
Documentation and interview personnel
Current and most up-to-date
Project Management Strategies
Registers
48. An IS auditor has discovered a high-risk exception during control testing. The best course of action for the IS auditor to take - The IS auditor should immediately ________________ when any high-risk situation is discovered.
Inform the auditee
Insourcing
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
Project Management Strategies
49. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.
objective and unbiased
Prblem Management
Function Point Analysis
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
50. A CMM helps an organization to _______________ - which is an important first step to any large-scale process improvement effort.
Elements of the COBIT Framework
TCP/IP Link Layer
Assess the maturity of its business processes
Substantive Testing