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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Should include 4 steps: (1.) Emergency Approval (2.) Implementation (3.) Verification (4.) Review
Insourcing
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
Inherent Risk
Emergency Changes
2. Used for several types of system changes: (1.) Incidents and problem resolution (bug fixes.) (2.) Enhancements (new functionality.) (3.) Subsystem patches and changes (require testing similar to when changes are made to the application itself.)
A Virtual Server
Project change request
Notify the Audit Committee
The Release process
3. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.
Gantt Chart
Release management
The Steering Committee
Business impact analysis
4. Deliver messages from one station to another on the same network or on different networks. Messaging at this layer is not guaranteed.
Antivirus software on the email servers
Employees with excessive privileges
TCP/IP Internet Layer
Reduced sign-on
5. 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
Deming Cycle
Background checks performed
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
Statistical Sampling
6. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment
Stay current with technology
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
Sampling Risk
Six steps of the Release Management process
7. 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 _________________.
A Virtual Server
OSI: Data Link Layer
Entire password for an encryption key
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
8. 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
Tolerable Error Rate
The Software Program Library
Referential Integrity
Function Point Analysis
9. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider
The Eight Types of Audits
Business impact analysis
Notify the Audit Committee
OSI Layer 5: Session
10. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)
Control Unit
Three Types of Controls
Statistical Sampling
Audit Methodologies
11. (1.) Developers (2.) Architects (3.) Analysts (4.) Users
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
TCP/IP Transport Layer
Service Continuity Management
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
12. Used to estimate the effort required to develop a software program.
Deming Cycle
Function Point Analysis
Server cluster
Power system controls
13. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act
Deming Cycle
Release management
OSI: Data Link Layer
Criticality analysis
14. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality
Separate administrative accounts
Prblem Management
OSI: Transport Layer
Criticality analysis
15. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
The BCP process
TCP/IP Transport Layer
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
16. n audit strategy and plans that include: (1.) Scope (2.) Objectives (3.) Resources (4.) Procedures used to evaluation controls and processes
Blade Computer Architecture
less than 24 hours
The availability of IT systems
The audit program
17. A critical application is backed up once per day. The recovery point objective (RPO) for an application that is backed up once per day cannot be ________.
An Administrative
Resource details
less than 24 hours
Documentation and interview personnel
18. In Release Management - _________________ means that each step of the release process undergoes formal review and approval before the next step is allowed to begin.
Input validation checking
A gate process
Security Awareness program
Examples of IT General Controls
19. (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
More difficult to perform
Examples of IT General Controls
Antivirus software on the email servers
Main types of Controls
20. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time
Statement of Impact
Business impact analysis
Frameworks
Hash
21. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance
Database primary key
Assess the maturity of its business processes
Project change request
Categories of risk treatment
22. 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.
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
The Steering Committee
Three Types of Controls
A Virtual Server
23. 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.
Judgmental sampling
Elements of the COBIT Framework
A Compliance audit
Grid Computing
24. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP
Control Risk
An IS audit
Transport Layer Protocols
Notify the Audit Committee
25. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample
Security Awareness program
An Administrative
Sample Standard Deviation
Variable Sampling
26. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
Information security policy
Project Management Strategies
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
27. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.
Service Level Management
Criticality analysis
Prblem Management
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
28. The 5 types of risks that are related to audits include: (1.) Control Risk (2.) Detection Risk (3.) Inherent risk (4.) _____________ (5.) Sampling risk
Overall audit risk
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
WAN Protocols
Organizational culture and maturity
29. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
Department Charters
The two Categories of Controls
Confidence coefficient
30. (1.) Feasibility (2.) Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation
General Controls
Cloud computing
Controls
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
31. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems
Capability Maturity Model
Information security policy
PERT Diagram?
The first step in a business impact analysis
32. 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
Reduced sign-on
OSI: Data Link Layer
Antivirus software on the email servers
PERT Diagram?
33. ____________________ 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
Geographic location
Documentation and interview personnel
Grid Computing
Application Controls
34. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Governance and control framework (3.) Control Objectives (4.) Management Guidelines (5.) Implementation Guide (6.) IT Assurance Guide
Elements of the COBIT Framework
Employee termination process
Stratified Sampling
A Compliance audit
35. Guide program execution through organization of resources and development of clear project objectives.
Antivirus software on the email servers
Project Management Strategies
Hash
Release management
36. The process of recording the configuration of IT systems. Each configuration setting is known in ITSM parlance as a Configuration Item.
Information security policy
Reduced sign-on
An Integrated Audit
Configuration Management
37. A field in a record in one table that can reference a primary key in another table that can reference a primary key in another table.
Foreign Key
Frameworks
Audit Methodologies
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
38. 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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39. 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.
IT Service Management
Examples of Application Controls
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
A Financial Audit
40. 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
Categories of risk treatment
Statistical Sampling
IT executives and the Board of Directors
41. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.
TCP/IP Link Layer
Organizational culture and maturity
The Eight Types of Audits
Configuration Management
42. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.
Reduced sign-on
Business impact analysis
Options for Risk Treatment
OSI: Physical Layer
43. Focuses on: post-event recovery and restoration of services
Split custody
Substantive Testing
An Operational Audit
Disaster Recovery
44. A software developer has informed the project manager that a portion of the application development is going to take five additional days to complete. The project manager make a __________________ to document the reason for the change.
Statistical Sampling
Dimensions of the COSO cube
Project change request
OSI: Physical Layer
45. (1.) Physical (2.) Technical (4.) Administrative
CPU
Confidence coefficient
Data Link Layer Standards
Three Types of Controls
46. The maximum period of downtime for a process or application
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
Recovery time objective
The Release process
Three Types of Controls
47. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery
Discovery Sampling
Sampling
OSI: Transport Layer
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
48. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
Structural fires and transportation accidents
PERT Diagram?
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
49. 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
BCP Plans
A Virtual Server
TCP/IP Internet Layer
50. What type of testing is performed to verify the accuracy and integrity of transactions as they flow through a system?
TCP/IP Transport Layer
Substantive Testing
Configuration Management
Function Point Analysis