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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 main hardware component of a computer system - which executes instructions in computer programs.
CPU
Information security policy
IT Service Management
General Controls
2. (1.) Develop a BC Policy (2.) Conduct BIA (3.) Perform critical analysis (4.) Establish recovery targets (5.) Develop recovery and continuity strategies and plans (6.) Test recovery and continuity plans and procedures Train personnel Maintain strateg
Server cluster
Three Types of Controls
Application Layer protocols
The BCP process
3. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
Stratified Sampling
Three Types of Controls
Current and most up-to-date
4. 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.
Sample Standard Deviation
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
Referential Integrity
TCP/IP Link Layer
5. 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
Insourcing
Security Awareness program
Substantive Testing
Blade Computer Architecture
6. 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
Cloud computing
Employee termination process
List of systems examined
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
7. 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
IT executives and the Board of Directors
The Business Process Life Cycle
Statement of Impact
More difficult to perform
8. A sampling technique where items are chosen at random; each item has a statistically equal probability of being chosen.
Inform the auditee
OSI Layer 7: Application
Statistical Sampling
Elements of the COBIT Framework
9. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
An Administrative
The Eight Types of Audits
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
10. 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.
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
Tolerable Error Rate
Frameworks
Service Continuity Management
11. ____________________ 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
An Administrative
Business impact analysis
less than 24 hours
Geographic location
12. (1.) Access Control (2.) Change Management (3.) Security Controls (4.) Incident Management (5.) SDLC (6.) Source code and versioning controls (7.) Monitoring and logging (8.) Event Management
Examples of IT General Controls
Statement of Impact
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
13. Handle application processing
Application Controls
Emergency Changes
Examples of IT General Controls
Detection Risk
14. 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
Discovery Sampling
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
Antivirus software on the email servers
PERT Diagram?
15. (1.) MPLS (2.) SONET (3.) T-Carrier (4.) Frame Relay (5.) ISDN (6.) X.25
Project Management Strategies
WAN Protocols
The Requirements
A Problem
16. (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
WAN Protocols
Data Link Layer Standards
Criticality analysis
OSI Layer 7: Application
17. (1.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication
Network Layer Protocols
The Eight Types of Audits
Elements of the COSO pyramid
Primary security features of relational databases
18. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.
Business impact analysis
objective and unbiased
BCP Plans
PERT Diagram?
19. (1.) Authentication (2.) Authorization (3.) Change Management (4.) Completeness checks (5.) Validation checks (6.) Input controls (7.) Output controls (8.) Problem management (9.) Identification/access controls
Reduced sign-on
Discovery Sampling
Overall audit risk
Examples of Application Controls
20. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine how many samples possess a specific characteristic.
Emergency Changes
Attribute Sampling
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
Precision means
21. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP
Registers
Transport Layer Protocols
Documentation and interview personnel
A Problem
22. 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?
Server cluster
Information security policy
A Compliance audit
23. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Audit Methodologies
OSI Layer 7: Application
SDLC Phases
24. An audit of an accounting system - accounting department processes - and procedures to determine if business controls are sufficient to ensure the integrity of financial statements.
Disaster Recovery
A Financial Audit
Current and most up-to-date
Testing activities
25. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application
Antivirus software on the email servers
TCP/IP Network Model
Categories of risk treatment
less than 24 hours
26. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
Categories of risk treatment
The Steering Committee
Gantt Chart
27. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
Stop-or-go Sampling
Examples of Application Controls
Separate administrative accounts
28. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.
IT Strategy
Volumes of COSO framework
The Eight Types of Audits
TCP/IP Link Layer
29. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified
Six steps of the Release Management process
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
30. Define 10 elements of an Audit - (1.) Subject of audit (2.) Audit Objective (3.) Type of audit (4.) Audit scope (5.) Pre-audit planning (6.) Audit procedures (7.) Communication plan (8.) Report Preparation (9.) Wrap-up (10.) Post-audit follow-up
Audit Methodologies
Control Unit
Release management
Detection Risk
31. The means by which management establishes and measures processes by which organizational objectives are achieved
Registers
Controls
Assess the maturity of its business processes
Expected Error Rate
32. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.
Blade Computer Architecture
A Cold Site
A Server Cluster
IT Strategy
33. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.
OSI: Network Layer
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
Referential Integrity
TCP/IP Link Layer
34. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.
Inform the auditee
Sampling
Business impact analysis
Confidence coefficient
35. An audit that is performed in support of an anticipated or active legal proceeding.
Power system controls
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
A Forensic Audit
Overall audit risk
36. To ensure that input values are within established ranges - of the correct character types - and free of harmful contents.
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
Statistical Sampling
Input validation checking
Insourcing
37. An audit of operational efficiency.
A Financial Audit
TCP/IP Link Layer
IT Services Financial Management
An Administrative
38. 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
Service Level Management
Department Charters
The first step in a business impact analysis
CPU
39. (1.) Physical (2.) Technical (4.) Administrative
Three Types of Controls
Criticality analysis
Reduced sign-on
Main types of Controls
40. The annual expected loss to an asset. It is calculated as the single loss expectancy (SLE) X the annualized rate of occurrence (ARO.)
A Financial Audit
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
TCP/IP Link Layer
Project Management Strategies
41. To communication security policies - procedures - and other security-related information to an organization's employees.
Security Awareness program
Formal waterfall
TCP/IP Network Model
Statistical Sampling
42. 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.
Examples of Application Controls
An Administrative
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
Critical Path Methodology
43. 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
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
Audit logging
Documentation and interview personnel
44. 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
IT Strategy
Overall audit risk
45. A computer uses RAM for several purposes: (1.) Operating System - to store info regarding running processes (2.) ____________ - that are used to temporarily store information retrieved from hard disks (3.) Storage of program code (4.) Storage of prog
Buffers
A Problem
Discovery Sampling
TCP/IP Internet Layer
46. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.
Split custody
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
OSI Layer 7: Application
47. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.
A Problem
Attribute Sampling
Employees with excessive privileges
Judgmental sampling
48. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.
Background checks performed
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Prblem Management
SDLC Phases
49. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.
List of systems examined
Blade Computer Architecture
Primary security features of relational databases
Power system controls
50. 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
Emergency Changes
Critical Path Methodology
Business Continuity