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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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1. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.
Judgmental sampling
PERT Diagram?
Employees with excessive privileges
Options for Risk Treatment
2. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.
Transport Layer Protocols
IT Strategy
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
OSI Layer 5: Session
3. 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.
More difficult to perform
TCP/IP Link Layer
Tolerable Error Rate
Stratified Sampling
4. 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.
Background checks performed
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
More difficult to perform
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
5. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality
Server cluster
Criticality analysis
Employee termination process
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
6. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
The first step in a business impact analysis
Prblem Management
Options for Risk Treatment
7. 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
IT Service Management
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
IT Services Financial Management
8. 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
OSI: Network Layer
Documentation and interview personnel
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
More difficult to perform
9. The purpose of an auditor doing interviews - To observe personnel to better understand their discipline - as well as ______________.
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
The Requirements
Organizational culture and maturity
IT Service Management
10. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.
Business impact analysis
Function Point Analysis
Grid Computing
Background checks performed
11. A sampling technique where at least one exception is sought in a population
The Eight Types of Audits
Volumes of COSO framework
Discovery Sampling
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
12. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components
Application Controls
Inform the auditee
The availability of IT systems
Employees with excessive privileges
13. The main hardware component of a computer system - which executes instructions in computer programs.
Application Controls
CPU
Grid Computing
Incident Management
14. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual
The two Categories of Controls
Examples of IT General Controls
Attribute Sampling
Sampling Risk
15. 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 first step in a business impact analysis
Department Charters
TCP/IP Link Layer
Judgmental sampling
16. 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
Power system controls
Change management
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
A Server Cluster
17. Support the functioning of the application controls
General Controls
Discovery Sampling
Attribute Sampling
Vulnerability in the organization's PBX
18. 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)
Foreign Key
Department Charters
Information systems access
A gate process
19. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time
Stay current with technology
Information systems access
Statement of Impact
Substantive Testing
20. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Control Unit
Database primary key
Documentation and interview personnel
21. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.
Risk Management
IT Strategy
A Sample Mean
Elements of the COSO pyramid
22. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review
Examples of IT General Controls
Testing activities
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
Formal waterfall
23. 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.
Sampling Risk
Stop-or-go Sampling
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Background checks performed
24. ____________________ 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
Insourcing
Geographic location
Assess the maturity of its business processes
Main types of Controls
25. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act
Risk Management
Security Awareness program
Deming Cycle
CPU
26. 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
Confidence coefficient
TCP/IP Link Layer
less than 24 hours
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
27. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning
OSI: Transport Layer
OSI: Network Layer
Grid Computing
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
28. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance
Categories of risk treatment
WAN Protocols
less than 24 hours
Structural fires and transportation accidents
29. To determine effectiveness of a disaster recovery program - an IT auditor should examine _____________.
Reduced sign-on
Documentation and interview personnel
Incident Management
Resource details
30. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
A gate process
Statistical Sampling
31. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices
Frameworks
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
BCP Plans
Change management
32. Information is arranged in frames and transported across the medium. Collision detection. Checksum verification of delivery.
Insourcing
OSI: Data Link Layer
Volumes of COSO framework
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
33. 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.
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
Critical Path Methodology
Grid Computing
The two Categories of Controls
34. 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
WAN Protocols
Business Continuity
Background checks performed
Registers
35. (1.) Physical (2.) Technical (4.) Administrative
Background checks performed
Entire password for an encryption key
A Forensic Audit
Three Types of Controls
36. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine the numeric total of a specific attribute from the entire population.
Three Types of Controls
Variable Sampling
OSI: Network Layer
Buffers
37. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.
The two Categories of Controls
An Operational Audit
Six steps of the Release Management process
Configuration Management
38. (1.) LAN protocols (2.) 80 (2.) 11 MAC/LLC (WiFi) (3.) Common Carrier packet networks (4.) ARP (5.) PPP and SLIP (6.) Tunneling - PPTP - L2TP
IT executives and the Board of Directors
Security Awareness program
Data Link Layer Standards
Volumes of COSO framework
39. 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.
Balanced Scorecard
Control Risk
Security Awareness program
Controls
40. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.
The Eight Types of Audits
Prblem Management
Elements of the COBIT Framework
List of systems examined
41. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.
Split custody
The Business Process Life Cycle
Background checks performed
Options for Risk Treatment
42. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.
Substantive Testing
Inherent Risk
TCP/IP Link Layer
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
43. Subjective sampling is used when the auditor wants to _________________________.
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
objective and unbiased
44. 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
List of systems examined
Separate administrative accounts
objective and unbiased
A Problem
45. Should include 4 steps: (1.) Emergency Approval (2.) Implementation (3.) Verification (4.) Review
A Problem
Emergency Changes
Configuration Management
Discovery Sampling
46. 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.
Stratified Sampling
A Server Cluster
Audit logging
Registers
47. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
Insourcing
The Eight Types of Audits
Stay current with technology
48. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.
Reduced sign-on
A Sample Mean
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
Application Layer protocols
49. (1.) MPLS (2.) SONET (3.) T-Carrier (4.) Frame Relay (5.) ISDN (6.) X.25
WAN Protocols
Control Unit
The Release process
Stay current with technology
50. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.
Resource details
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Expected Error Rate