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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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1. 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
Prblem Management
Notify the Audit Committee
The Business Process Life Cycle
Compliance Testing
2. (1.) MPLS (2.) SONET (3.) T-Carrier (4.) Frame Relay (5.) ISDN (6.) X.25
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
More difficult to perform
Options for Risk Treatment
WAN Protocols
3. (1.) Reliable delivery (2.) Connection oriented (persistent connection) (3.) Order of Delivery (4.) Flow Control (transfer rate is throttled) (5.) Port Number
Business Realization
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
Business Continuity
Examples of IT General Controls
4. 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.
The Requirements
A Problem
Statement of Impact
A Server Cluster
5. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.
An Operational Audit
The first step in a business impact analysis
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
TCP/IP Transport Layer
6. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.
TCP/IP Link Layer
Employees with excessive privileges
Split custody
Organizational culture and maturity
7. The highest number of errors that can exist without a result being materially misstated.
Tolerable Error Rate
Capability Maturity Model
Sampling Risk
objective and unbiased
8. 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.
Sampling Risk
Audit logging
Security Awareness program
Compliance Testing
9. 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
Release management
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
Information systems access
Current and most up-to-date
10. A CMM helps an organization to _______________ - which is an important first step to any large-scale process improvement effort.
OSI: Network Layer
Function Point Analysis
Assess the maturity of its business processes
Power system controls
11. 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
Cloud computing
Incident Management
Substantive Testing
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
12. 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
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
The Software Program Library
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
Department Charters
13. A representation of how closely a sample represents an entire population.
The audit program
Stay current with technology
Precision means
Confidence coefficient
14. An audit of a third-party organization that provides services to other organizations.
IT executives and the Board of Directors
Insourcing
Service Continuity Management
A Service Provider audit
15. 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.
Service Continuity Management
Notify the Audit Committee
Dimensions of the COSO cube
Discovery Sampling
16. A sampling technique where items are chosen at random; each item has a statistically equal probability of being chosen.
Hash
Statistical Sampling
An Integrated Audit
Inherent Risk
17. A sampling technique where at least one exception is sought in a population
Project Management Strategies
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Statistical Sampling
Discovery Sampling
18. 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
Disaster Recovery
Criticality analysis
Insourcing
BCP Plans
19. The process to ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of all changes.
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Detection Risk
IT Strategy
The Eight Types of Audits
20. External auditors are needed under these conditions: (1.) When the organization ________________________. (2.) Some regulations and standards require external - independent auditors
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
Function Point Analysis
Organizational culture and maturity
21. 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
Database primary key
A Virtual Server
Capability Maturity Model
22. An audit that is performed in support of an anticipated or active legal proceeding.
The BCP process
A Forensic Audit
TCP/IP Network Model
Cloud computing
23. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.
Referential Integrity
Service Continuity Management
Registers
Blade Computer Architecture
24. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.
A Cold Site
The availability of IT systems
Employees with excessive privileges
Inform the auditee
25. 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.
IT Strategy
WAN Protocols
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
Critical Path Methodology
26. 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.
Assess the maturity of its business processes
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
Stratified Sampling
27. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
Formal waterfall
An IS audit
Inherent Risk
28. Delivery of packets from one station to another - on the same network or on different networks.
A Problem
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
Employee termination process
Elements of the COBIT Framework
29. 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)
Employee termination process
Information systems access
Project change request
OSI Layer 7: Application
30. A database term - which means that the database will not permit a program (or user) to deleted rows from a table if there are records in other tables whose foreign keys reference the row to be deleted.
The Steering Committee
Referential Integrity
Application Controls
SDLC Phases
31. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.
A Virtual Server
Information security policy
Current and most up-to-date
A Sample Mean
32. n audit strategy and plans that include: (1.) Scope (2.) Objectives (3.) Resources (4.) Procedures used to evaluation controls and processes
The audit program
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
A Sample Mean
Statement of Impact
33. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.
Precision means
Foreign Key
Stratified Sampling
Judgmental sampling
34. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.
Formal waterfall
TCP/IP Network Model
Inform the auditee
Sampling
35. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance
Input validation checking
Categories of risk treatment
Business Realization
Vulnerability in the organization's PBX
36. 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.
Testing activities
Stop-or-go Sampling
Deming Cycle
Capability Maturity Model
37. 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.
Criticality analysis
The Requirements
Compliance Testing
Release management
38. 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
Department Charters
Organizational culture and maturity
objective and unbiased
39. (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
General Controls
Data Link Layer Standards
Statement of Impact
Formal waterfall
40. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
Sample Standard Deviation
OSI: Physical Layer
Emergency Changes
41. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.
TCP/IP Link Layer
Referential Integrity
Volumes of COSO framework
Statement of Impact
42. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment
Six steps of the Release Management process
The Business Process Life Cycle
Discovery Sampling
Cloud computing
43. 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
A Virtual Server
Reduced sign-on
Employees with excessive privileges
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
44. An auditor has discovered several errors in user account management: many terminated employees' computer accounts are still active. The best course of action - To improve the _________________ to reduce the number of exceptions. For a time - the proc
Employee termination process
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
The Software Program Library
CPU
45. 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
The Requirements
Network Layer Protocols
List of systems examined
Separate administrative accounts
46. An auditor is examining a key management process and has found that the IT department is not following its split-custody procedure. As a result - Someone may be in possession of the _________________.
Application Layer protocols
TCP/IP Network Model
Information security policy
Entire password for an encryption key
47. 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.
Database primary key
Confidence coefficient
Change management
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
48. The result of strategic planning - process development - and systems development - which all contribute towards a launch of business operations to reach a set of business objectives.
List of systems examined
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
Business Realization
Inform the auditee
49. 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.
Buffers
The availability of IT systems
The BCP process
Inform the auditee
50. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.
Registers
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
An IS audit
IT Strategy