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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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1. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time
CPU
Foreign Key
Statement of Impact
A Problem
2. 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
Substantive Testing
Department Charters
Variable Sampling
Audit Methodologies
3. 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
List of systems examined
More difficult to perform
A Problem
Department Charters
4. (1.) Utility (DNS - SNMP - DHCP (2.) Messaging protocols (SMTP) (3.) Data Transfer protocols (NFS - FTP) (4.) Interactive protocols (Telnet)
Application Layer protocols
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
Stay current with technology
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
5. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application
TCP/IP Network Model
Business Continuity
Risk Management
The Business Process Life Cycle
6. A representation of how closely a sample represents an entire population.
Formal waterfall
The Requirements
Precision means
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
7. IS auditors can _____________________ through the following means: (1.) training courses (2.) webinars (3.) ISACA chapter training events (4.) Industry conferences
Control Unit
Stay current with technology
An Operational Audit
TCP/IP Internet Layer
8. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.
Confidence coefficient
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
The audit program
IT Strategy
9. An active - instance of a server operating system running on a machine that is designed to house two or more such virtual servers.
OSI Layer 7: Application
A Service Provider audit
A Virtual Server
The Eight Types of Audits
10. 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
The Eight Types of Audits
Dimensions of the COSO cube
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
11. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual
Criticality analysis
Structural fires and transportation accidents
The two Categories of Controls
TCP/IP Internet Layer
12. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Framework (3.) Reporting to External Parties (4.) Evaluation Tools
Volumes of COSO framework
A Service Provider audit
Geographic location
Options for Risk Treatment
13. The 5 types of risks that are related to audits include: (1.) Control Risk (2.) Detection Risk (3.) Inherent risk (4.) _____________ (5.) Sampling risk
Frameworks
Overall audit risk
Audit Methodologies
Risk Management
14. The party that performs strategic planning - addresses near-term and long-term requirements aligning business objectives - and technology strategies.
Information systems access
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
TCP/IP Transport Layer
The Steering Committee
15. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.
Organizational culture and maturity
Reduced sign-on
TCP/IP Link Layer
Six steps of the Release Management process
16. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.
An Operational Audit
The Steering Committee
TCP/IP Network Model
Testing activities
17. In Release Management - _________________ means that each step of the release process undergoes formal review and approval before the next step is allowed to begin.
Business impact analysis
A gate process
Current and most up-to-date
Data Link Layer Standards
18. 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
Control Risk
Volumes of COSO framework
Notify the Audit Committee
Service Continuity Management
19. An IS auditor needs to perform an audit of a financial system and needs to trace individual transactions through the system. What type of testing should the auditor perform?
Security Awareness program
An IS audit
A Problem
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
20. Outsourcing is an opportunity for the organization to focus on core competencies. When an organization oursources a business function - it no longer needs to be concerned about training employees in that function. Outsources does not always reduce co
Advantages of outsourcing
Primary security features of relational databases
OSI: Data Link Layer
Cloud computing
21. Focuses on: post-event recovery and restoration of services
Project change request
The Eight Types of Audits
Disaster Recovery
OSI Layer 5: Session
22. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems
OSI Layer 5: Session
Entire password for an encryption key
The first step in a business impact analysis
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
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.
Documentation and interview personnel
Stop-or-go Sampling
Referential Integrity
Application Controls
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
Detection Risk
Categories of risk treatment
Control Unit
Geographic location
25. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.
An IS audit
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
The Eight Types of Audits
26. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.
Risk Management
Current and most up-to-date
Dimensions of the COSO cube
A Service Provider audit
27. 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.
Elements of the COBIT Framework
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
A Financial Audit
28. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review
Frameworks
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
Formal waterfall
Categories of risk treatment
29. 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
Gantt Chart
Blade Computer Architecture
30. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.
Release management
Grid Computing
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
31. Who is responsible for imposing an IT governance model encompassing IT strategy - information security - and formal enterprise architectural mandates?
IT executives and the Board of Directors
A Service Provider audit
An IS audit
The Requirements
32. 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
Foreign Key
Separate administrative accounts
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
33. To review and approve proposed changes to systems and infrastructure. This helps to reduce the risk of unintended events and unplanned downtime.
Incident Management
Change management
Project change request
Examples of IT General Controls
34. Used to measure the relative maturity of an organization and its processes.
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
Database primary key
Information systems access
Capability Maturity Model
35. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.
Release management
Examples of Application Controls
An Operational Audit
Main types of Controls
36. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.
Current and most up-to-date
An IS audit
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Structural fires and transportation accidents
37. 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
Project Management Strategies
Input validation checking
Statement of Impact
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.
Examples of Application Controls
An Operational Audit
Sampling Risk
Control Risk
39. The maximum period of downtime for a process or application
Referential Integrity
Stay current with technology
Recovery time objective
Three Types of Controls
40. To determine effectiveness of a disaster recovery program - an IT auditor should examine _____________.
Release management
Documentation and interview personnel
Foreign Key
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
41. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance
Advantages of outsourcing
Options for Risk Treatment
Three Types of Controls
Employees with excessive privileges
42. A tightly coupled collection of computers that are used to solve a common task. One or more actively perform tasks - while zero or more may be in a standby state.
CPU
Organizational culture and maturity
A Server Cluster
TCP/IP Internet Layer
43. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.
Employees with excessive privileges
Split custody
Insourcing
Assess the maturity of its business processes
44. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine the numeric total of a specific attribute from the entire population.
Elements of the COSO pyramid
Variable Sampling
General Controls
CPU
45. 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.
Application Layer protocols
A Problem
Business Realization
A Financial Audit
46. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - as the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient.
Sampling Risk
Application Controls
Service Continuity Management
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
47. (1.) Physical (2.) Technical (4.) Administrative
List of systems examined
Power system controls
Three Types of Controls
An Administrative
48. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient
Sampling Risk
Service Level Management
The Business Process Life Cycle
Documentation and interview personnel
49. 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.
PERT Diagram?
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
CPU
BCP Plans
50. 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.
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
Inform the auditee
Network Layer Protocols
Examples of IT General Controls