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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. (1.) Reliable delivery (2.) Connection oriented (persistent connection) (3.) Order of Delivery (4.) Flow Control (transfer rate is throttled) (5.) Port Number
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
Six steps of the Release Management process
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
Organizational culture and maturity
2. Used to estimate the effort required to develop a software program.
Function Point Analysis
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
Resource details
An Integrated Audit
3. Focuses on: maintaining service availability with the least disruption to standard operating parameters during an event
Precision means
Application Layer protocols
Business Continuity
Current and most up-to-date
4. 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.
Hash
Foreign Key
Project Management Strategies
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
5. (1.) IP (2.) ICMP (3.) RRC (Radio Resource Control) (4.) AppleTalk
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
A Sample Mean
Network Layer Protocols
OSI: Transport Layer
6. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
Input validation checking
Buffers
7. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
Criticality analysis
Prblem Management
Disaster Recovery
8. Any event which is not part of the standard operation of service and which causes or may cause an interruption to or reduction in quality of that service. Includes THREE incident types: (1.) Service Outage (2.) Service Slowdown (3.) Software Bug
Incident Management
OSI: Network Layer
Assess the maturity of its business processes
Primary security features of relational databases
9. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices
OSI: Data Link Layer
OSI: Transport Layer
BCP Plans
Advantages of outsourcing
10. 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.
The Business Process Life Cycle
Sampling
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
Department Charters
11. (1.) Access controls (2.) Encryption (3.) Audit logging
Primary security features of relational databases
Tolerable Error Rate
OSI Layer 7: Application
Information systems access
12. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine how many samples possess a specific characteristic.
Blade Computer Architecture
Dimensions of the COSO cube
Attribute Sampling
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
13. What activity involves the identification of potential risk and the appropriate response for each threat based on impact assessment using qualitative and/or quantitative measures for an enterprise-wide risk management strategy?
Stratified Sampling
An Operational Audit
Capability Maturity Model
Risk Management
14. What type of testing is performed to determine if control procedures have proper design and are operating properly?
Recovery time objective
Compliance Testing
Insourcing
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
15. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components
Controls
The first step in a business impact analysis
The availability of IT systems
Information systems access
16. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning
The Steering Committee
Inherent Risk
OSI Layer 7: Application
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
17. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
TCP/IP Internet Layer
Employees with excessive privileges
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
18. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act
Deming Cycle
less than 24 hours
Reduced sign-on
Three Types of Controls
19. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.
Service Level Management
A Financial Audit
Resource details
Project Management Strategies
20. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance
Foreign Key
Server cluster
Categories of risk treatment
Inform the auditee
21. Support the functioning of the application controls
General Controls
Criticality analysis
Security Awareness program
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
22. Guide program execution through organization of resources and development of clear project objectives.
Gantt Chart
Judgmental sampling
Project Management Strategies
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
23. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Governance and control framework (3.) Control Objectives (4.) Management Guidelines (5.) Implementation Guide (6.) IT Assurance Guide
Tolerable Error Rate
Inform the auditee
Three Types of Controls
Elements of the COBIT Framework
24. To communication security policies - procedures - and other security-related information to an organization's employees.
Resource details
The Release process
Security Awareness program
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
25. Framework for auditing and measuring IT Service Management Processes.
Registers
Configuration Management
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
ISO 20000 Standard:
26. 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
The audit program
Information security policy
IT Strategy
Notify the Audit Committee
27. The memory locations in the CPU where arithmetic values are stored.
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
TCP/IP Internet Layer
Registers
28. Information is arranged in frames and transported across the medium. Collision detection. Checksum verification of delivery.
Criticality analysis
Emergency Changes
OSI: Data Link Layer
Database primary key
29. 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.
Formal waterfall
Grid Computing
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
OSI Layer 7: Application
30. A CMM helps an organization to _______________ - which is an important first step to any large-scale process improvement effort.
Inherent Risk
Overall audit risk
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
Assess the maturity of its business processes
31. One of a database table's fields - whose value is unique.
The audit program
Stay current with technology
The Business Process Life Cycle
Database primary key
32. 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
Database primary key
OSI Layer 7: Application
Reduced sign-on
Current and most up-to-date
33. Aids in the coordinating of business processes using a sequence of three events -(1.) Business process creation (2.) Implementation (3.) Maintenance 3a. Benchmarking: Facilitates continuous improvement within the BPLC
An Administrative
Split custody
The Business Process Life Cycle
Compliance Testing
34. 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.
Stratified Sampling
TCP/IP Link Layer
Stay current with technology
IT Strategy
35. 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
Substantive Testing
List of systems examined
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
Antivirus software on the email servers
36. 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?
Application Controls
Separate administrative accounts
Audit logging
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
37. 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.
Examples of Application Controls
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
The BCP process
Controls
38. 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
Inform the auditee
A Compliance audit
Judgmental sampling
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
39. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery
OSI: Transport Layer
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
Function Point Analysis
Sampling Risk
40. 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.
Tolerable Error Rate
Control Risk
Sampling Risk
The Eight Types of Audits
41. 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.
Power system controls
A Financial Audit
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
Examples of Application Controls
42. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration
Sample Standard Deviation
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
Blade Computer Architecture
Detection Risk
43. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.
Attribute Sampling
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
Power system controls
Substantive Testing
44. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.
A Cold Site
Cloud computing
Stop-or-go Sampling
Audit logging
45. A sampling technique where at least one exception is sought in a population
Transport Layer Protocols
Frameworks
Discovery Sampling
Application Controls
46. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them
Project change request
Recovery time objective
Inherent Risk
Split custody
47. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.
Substantive Testing
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Business impact analysis
Grid Computing
48. 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.)
Compliance Testing
The Release process
Elements of the COSO pyramid
Service Level Management
49. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
Expected Error Rate
50. 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
The Eight Types of Audits
Statement of Impact
Service Continuity Management