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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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1. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery
Background checks performed
OSI: Transport Layer
Sampling
OSI Layer 7: Application
2. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.
Current and most up-to-date
Examples of Application Controls
A Problem
Configuration Management
3. 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.
Resource details
Change management
Stratified Sampling
The Requirements
4. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
Grid Computing
Advantages of outsourcing
Vulnerability in the organization's PBX
5. 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
Inform the auditee
IT Strategy
Options for Risk Treatment
6. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.
Overall audit risk
Business impact analysis
TCP/IP Transport Layer
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
7. Should include 4 steps: (1.) Emergency Approval (2.) Implementation (3.) Verification (4.) Review
Service Level Management
Emergency Changes
Department Charters
Options for Risk Treatment
8. (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
Release management
Examples of Application Controls
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Confidence coefficient
9. What three elements allow validation of business practices against acceptable measures of regulatory compliance - performance - and standard operational guidelines.
An Operational Audit
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
OSI: Network Layer
Stay current with technology
10. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.
Statistical Sampling
less than 24 hours
OSI: Physical Layer
Elements of the COBIT Framework
11. 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
Options for Risk Treatment
Reduced sign-on
Service Level Management
An Administrative
12. An IS auditor is examining the IT standards document for an organization that was last reviewed two years earlier. The best course of action for the IS auditor is: Report that the ____________________________. Two years is far too long between revie
Volumes of COSO framework
Sampling Risk
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
Tolerable Error Rate
13. (1.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas
Dimensions of the COSO cube
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
Audit logging
TCP/IP Network Model
14. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
A Cold Site
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
Six steps of the Release Management process
15. 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 Forensic Audit
Current and most up-to-date
The Software Program Library
The Release process
16. 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
Stop-or-go Sampling
Service Continuity Management
Change management
17. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.
OSI Layer 7: Application
Function Point Analysis
Server cluster
SDLC Phases
18. 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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19. A sampling technique where items are chosen at random; each item has a statistically equal probability of being chosen.
Statistical Sampling
OSI: Physical Layer
A Sample Mean
TCP/IP Link Layer
20. 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?
Network Layer Protocols
The Steering Committee
Current and most up-to-date
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
21. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them
A Cold Site
Release management
Inherent Risk
OSI: Physical Layer
22. 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 _________________.
IT Services Financial Management
Entire password for an encryption key
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
Documentation and interview personnel
23. 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 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
The audit program
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
TCP/IP Link Layer
24. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample
Testing activities
Sample Standard Deviation
IT executives and the Board of Directors
Gantt Chart
25. An auditor has discovered that several administrators in an application share an administrative account. The auditor should recommend that - Several __________________ should be used. This will enforce accountability for each administrator's actions.
Separate administrative accounts
Audit logging
Primary security features of relational databases
Project Management Strategies
26. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality
Elements of the COSO pyramid
Criticality analysis
Application Controls
OSI: Physical Layer
27. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act
Emergency Changes
Elements of the COBIT Framework
Substantive Testing
Deming Cycle
28. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.
Geographic location
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
Release management
TCP/IP Link Layer
29. External auditors are needed under these conditions: (1.) When the organization ________________________. (2.) Some regulations and standards require external - independent auditors
Entire password for an encryption key
PERT Diagram?
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
Separate administrative accounts
30. 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.
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
A Server Cluster
The BCP process
31. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP
Risk Management
Transport Layer Protocols
A Compliance audit
Frameworks
32. 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
Notify the Audit Committee
Release management
Criticality analysis
33. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.
The Eight Types of Audits
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
Risk Management
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
34. Consists of 11 distinct activities: (1.) Service Desk (2.) Incident Management (3.) Problem Management (4.) Change Management (5.) Configuration Management (6.) Release Management (7.) Service-level Management (8.) Financial Management (9.) Capacity
IT Service Management
The Steering Committee
Statement of Impact
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
35. (1.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication
Detection Risk
The two Categories of Controls
Business impact analysis
Elements of the COSO pyramid
36. The purpose of an auditor doing interviews - To observe personnel to better understand their discipline - as well as ______________.
Organizational culture and maturity
WAN Protocols
Geographic location
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
37. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.
The Release process
Vulnerability in the organization's PBX
OSI Layer 5: Session
Split custody
38. What type of testing is performed to verify the accuracy and integrity of transactions as they flow through a system?
Business Realization
Substantive Testing
An Operational Audit
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
39. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
Service Level Management
Gantt Chart
40. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.
Controls
A Compliance audit
Incident Management
The Software Program Library
41. (1.) Feasibility Study (2.) Definition of Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation phase
Buffers
IT Services Financial Management
SDLC Phases
Employee termination process
42. 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
Formal waterfall
A Problem
TCP/IP Internet Layer
43. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.
An Integrated Audit
Server cluster
OSI: Network Layer
A Server Cluster
44. A CMM helps an organization to _______________ - which is an important first step to any large-scale process improvement effort.
Foreign Key
OSI: Transport Layer
Assess the maturity of its business processes
Inherent Risk
45. An audit of a third-party organization that provides services to other organizations.
A Service Provider audit
Cloud computing
Database primary key
Testing activities
46. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
Primary security features of relational databases
An Integrated Audit
TCP/IP Network Model
47. Delivery of packets from one station to another - on the same network or on different networks.
Vulnerability in the organization's PBX
A Service Provider audit
Server cluster
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
48. A technique that is used to identify the most critical path in a project to understand which tasks are most likely to affect the project schedule.
Assess the maturity of its business processes
Critical Path Methodology
Business Realization
objective and unbiased
49. A representation of how closely a sample represents an entire population.
Categories of risk treatment
TCP/IP Internet Layer
Function Point Analysis
Precision means
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.
Business impact analysis
The Business Process Life Cycle
Control Risk
Tolerable Error Rate