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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The process of recording the configuration of IT systems. Each configuration setting is known in ITSM parlance as a Configuration Item.
Control Risk
Network Layer Protocols
Categories of risk treatment
Configuration Management
2. The party that performs strategic planning - addresses near-term and long-term requirements aligning business objectives - and technology strategies.
Advantages of outsourcing
Audit logging
Current and most up-to-date
The Steering Committee
3. 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
Separate administrative accounts
Reduced sign-on
The Release process
4. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.
Department Charters
A Cold Site
Formal waterfall
The audit program
5. 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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6. The purpose of an auditor doing interviews - To observe personnel to better understand their discipline - as well as ______________.
Buffers
Information systems access
IT Strategy
Organizational culture and maturity
7. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.
Structural fires and transportation accidents
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
Current and most up-to-date
Documentation and interview personnel
8. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Framework (3.) Reporting to External Parties (4.) Evaluation Tools
Business impact analysis
The Steering Committee
Sampling Risk
Volumes of COSO framework
9. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.
Emergency Changes
BCP Plans
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Precision means
10. 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.
Organizational culture and maturity
Advantages of outsourcing
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
The Requirements
11. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.
Options for Risk Treatment
An Administrative
Cloud computing
Judgmental sampling
12. Application controls limit ___________ in three ways: (1.) Point of Entry (Input Controls) (2.) During consumption (process controls) (3.) At the point of expression (Output Controls)
The availability of IT systems
TCP/IP Link Layer
Information systems access
OSI: Network Layer
13. (1.) Access controls (2.) Encryption (3.) Audit logging
Primary security features of relational databases
Server cluster
Sampling Risk
Employees with excessive privileges
14. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.
Sampling Risk
Project Management Strategies
Power system controls
Release management
15. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Examples of IT General Controls
Split custody
Statistical Sampling
16. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act
Deming Cycle
Registers
Stratified Sampling
Network Layer Protocols
17. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.
Organizational culture and maturity
Controls
Foreign Key
OSI Layer 7: Application
18. 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
Antivirus software on the email servers
TCP/IP Network Model
Employees with excessive privileges
Categories of risk treatment
19. 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
Three Types of Controls
The two Categories of Controls
Data Link Layer Standards
Insourcing
20. 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
Reduced sign-on
Examples of Application Controls
Stratified Sampling
Stay current with technology
21. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review
Sampling Risk
Disaster Recovery
The two Categories of Controls
Formal waterfall
22. (1.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication
Elements of the COSO pyramid
Inherent Risk
List of systems examined
TCP/IP Network Model
23. A facility that is used to store and manage access to an organization's application source and object code. It consists of 5 parts: (1.) Access and authorization controls (2.) Program checkout (3.) Program Check-in (4.) Version Control (5.) Code Ana
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
The Software Program Library
A Virtual Server
Change management
24. 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?
Risk Management
Reduced sign-on
Employees with excessive privileges
Gantt Chart
25. Critical Path Methodology helps a project manager determine which activities are on a project's critical list - ________________________.
Blade Computer Architecture
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
Controls
26. Focuses on: post-event recovery and restoration of services
Disaster Recovery
Audit Methodologies
Business Continuity
Application Layer protocols
27. An estimate that expresses the percent of errors or exceptions that may exist in an entire population
Foreign Key
Hash
Gantt Chart
Expected Error Rate
28. What type of testing is performed to verify the accuracy and integrity of transactions as they flow through a system?
A Cold Site
Critical Path Methodology
Substantive Testing
Inherent Risk
29. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.
A Problem
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
Precision means
An Integrated Audit
30. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time
Gantt Chart
PERT Diagram?
Examples of IT General Controls
Statement of Impact
31. 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 appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
Data Link Layer Standards
Options for Risk Treatment
Sample Standard Deviation
32. 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
The availability of IT systems
Notify the Audit Committee
BCP Plans
Audit logging
33. 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.
Discovery Sampling
General Controls
Separate administrative accounts
Compliance Testing
34. Support the functioning of the application controls
General Controls
List of systems examined
Cloud computing
WAN Protocols
35. The IS auditor should conduct a risk assessment first to determine which areas have highest risk. She should devote more testing resources to those high-risk areas.
WAN Protocols
Organizational culture and maturity
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
36. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.
TCP/IP Transport Layer
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
Change management
List of systems examined
37. 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
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
Foreign Key
Department Charters
38. (1.) Utility (DNS - SNMP - DHCP (2.) Messaging protocols (SMTP) (3.) Data Transfer protocols (NFS - FTP) (4.) Interactive protocols (Telnet)
Sampling
Employees with excessive privileges
Options for Risk Treatment
Application Layer protocols
39. To measure organizational performance and effectiveness against strategic goals.
A Server Cluster
Capability Maturity Model
Balanced Scorecard
Statistical Sampling
40. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.
PERT Diagram?
A Cold Site
Testing activities
IT Service Management
41. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine the numeric total of a specific attribute from the entire population.
Variable Sampling
Primary security features of relational databases
Disaster Recovery
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
42. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them
Gantt Chart
Business Continuity
Inherent Risk
OSI: Data Link Layer
43. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.
The availability of IT systems
Service Level Management
The Business Process Life Cycle
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
44. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.
IT Strategy
The Steering Committee
The availability of IT systems
BCP Plans
45. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.
OSI: Physical Layer
Split custody
Elements of the COBIT Framework
Resource details
46. An audit of a third-party organization that provides services to other organizations.
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
Current and most up-to-date
Examples of Application Controls
A Service Provider audit
47. 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.
A Server Cluster
OSI: Physical Layer
Geographic location
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
48. 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
Reduced sign-on
Information systems access
OSI Layer 5: Session
A Forensic Audit
49. (1.) Physical (2.) Technical (4.) Administrative
Recovery time objective
Frameworks
Three Types of Controls
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
50. Who is responsible for imposing an IT governance model encompassing IT strategy - information security - and formal enterprise architectural mandates?
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
IT Services Financial Management
Stay current with technology
IT executives and the Board of Directors