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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
IT Service Management
Formal waterfall
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
2. (1.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas
Dimensions of the COSO cube
Buffers
Application Controls
Precision means
3. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
Criticality analysis
Geographic location
WAN Protocols
4. The memory locations in the CPU where arithmetic values are stored.
TCP/IP Network Model
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
Registers
Attribute Sampling
5. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.
A Compliance audit
Assess the maturity of its business processes
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
Formal waterfall
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
Employee termination process
The Steering Committee
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
7. To ensure that input values are within established ranges - of the correct character types - and free of harmful contents.
A Cold Site
Categories of risk treatment
A Compliance audit
Input validation checking
8. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.
Data Link Layer Standards
Split custody
Referential Integrity
Service Level Management
9. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider
The Eight Types of Audits
Examples of Application Controls
Capability Maturity Model
Transport Layer Protocols
10. The purpose of an auditor doing interviews - To observe personnel to better understand their discipline - as well as ______________.
Organizational culture and maturity
Inform the auditee
The Business Process Life Cycle
A Sample Mean
11. External auditors are needed under these conditions: (1.) When the organization ________________________. (2.) Some regulations and standards require external - independent auditors
Formal waterfall
Data Link Layer Standards
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
12. 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
An Operational Audit
A Compliance audit
Capability Maturity Model
13. The annual expected loss to an asset. It is calculated as the single loss expectancy (SLE) X the annualized rate of occurrence (ARO.)
Audit logging
Attribute Sampling
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
IT Service Management
14. 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.
TCP/IP Internet Layer
Business Realization
Server cluster
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
15. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP
Transport Layer Protocols
Control Risk
Application Layer protocols
A Problem
16. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample
Grid Computing
Sample Standard Deviation
Frameworks
IT Strategy
17. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.
A Problem
A Service Provider audit
A Forensic Audit
PERT Diagram?
18. Focuses on: maintaining service availability with the least disruption to standard operating parameters during an event
A gate process
Stay current with technology
Critical Path Methodology
Business Continuity
19. 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
Formal waterfall
Dimensions of the COSO cube
Control Unit
Advantages of outsourcing
20. The highest number of errors that can exist without a result being materially misstated.
Tolerable Error Rate
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
Hash
Attribute Sampling
21. 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
Employee termination process
Hash
Buffers
The Eight Types of Audits
22. An IS auditor is auditing the change management process for a financial application. The auditor has two primary pieces of evidence: change logs and a written analysis of the change logs performed by a business analyst. The change log is best because
The availability of IT systems
TCP/IP Internet Layer
objective and unbiased
Formal waterfall
23. 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
Change management
More difficult to perform
BCP Plans
Employee termination process
24. Information is arranged in frames and transported across the medium. Collision detection. Checksum verification of delivery.
More difficult to perform
Background checks performed
OSI: Data Link Layer
The first step in a business impact analysis
25. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.
Tolerable Error Rate
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Sampling
26. (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
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
The BCP process
OSI: Network Layer
More difficult to perform
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.
Deming Cycle
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
Critical Path Methodology
28. 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
An Administrative
Notify the Audit Committee
Inform the auditee
29. Guide program execution through organization of resources and development of clear project objectives.
Confidence coefficient
An IS audit
Project Management Strategies
Entire password for an encryption key
30. (1.) IP (2.) ICMP (3.) RRC (Radio Resource Control) (4.) AppleTalk
Inform the auditee
Network Layer Protocols
Resource details
Geographic location
31. ____________________ 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
Sampling
Geographic location
The availability of IT systems
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
32. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time
Information systems access
The first step in a business impact analysis
Referential Integrity
Statement of Impact
33. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.
Geographic location
Prblem Management
A Sample Mean
Dimensions of the COSO cube
34. A CMM helps an organization to _______________ - which is an important first step to any large-scale process improvement effort.
Attribute Sampling
Prblem Management
Assess the maturity of its business processes
less than 24 hours
35. 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)
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
A Server Cluster
The Business Process Life Cycle
Information systems access
36. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.
Documentation and interview personnel
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
OSI Layer 7: Application
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.
The Requirements
OSI Layer 7: Application
A Cold Site
WAN Protocols
38. (1.) MPLS (2.) SONET (3.) T-Carrier (4.) Frame Relay (5.) ISDN (6.) X.25
Current and most up-to-date
WAN Protocols
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
39. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified
Elements of the COBIT Framework
ISO 20000 Standard:
Data Link Layer Standards
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
40. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.
Structural fires and transportation accidents
A Problem
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
Deming Cycle
41. 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
Information systems access
Incident Management
A Server Cluster
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
42. The means by which management establishes and measures processes by which organizational objectives are achieved
Gantt Chart
The Requirements
Controls
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
43. 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.
Capability Maturity Model
Database primary key
Grid Computing
Risk Management
44. Used to schedule and sequence activities in a waterfall-type representation. Planned activities are shown flowing downward to completion. More simplistic than a PERT Diagram.
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
Gantt Chart
Registers
Information security policy
45. A sampling technique where at least one exception is sought in a population
Gantt Chart
Discovery Sampling
Business Continuity
Business Realization
46. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.
An Administrative
OSI Layer 5: Session
Compliance Testing
An Operational Audit
47. 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
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
OSI Layer 7: Application
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
48. 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
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
Criticality analysis
Hash
An Operational Audit
49. Focuses on: post-event recovery and restoration of services
Discovery Sampling
Disaster Recovery
Balanced Scorecard
Deming Cycle
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
Entire password for an encryption key
Confidence coefficient
Risk Management