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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.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records
Discovery Sampling
OSI: Transport Layer
Balanced Scorecard
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
2. A database term - which means that the database will not permit a program (or user) to deleted rows from a table if there are records in other tables whose foreign keys reference the row to be deleted.
The first step in a business impact analysis
Project Management Strategies
Referential Integrity
Confidence coefficient
3. Should include 4 steps: (1.) Emergency Approval (2.) Implementation (3.) Verification (4.) Review
Insourcing
Sampling
Emergency Changes
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
4. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.
Judgmental sampling
A Server Cluster
An Integrated Audit
Tolerable Error Rate
5. 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
Control Unit
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Blade Computer Architecture
6. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.
Insourcing
Grid Computing
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
Three Types of Controls
7. The annual expected loss to an asset. It is calculated as the single loss expectancy (SLE) X the annualized rate of occurrence (ARO.)
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
Stop-or-go Sampling
OSI: Network Layer
An Integrated Audit
8. 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
Service Level Management
Elements of the COBIT Framework
Formal waterfall
Antivirus software on the email servers
9. A dynamically scalable and usually virtualized computing environment that is provided as a service. Clout computing services may be rented or leased so that an organization can have a scalable application without the need for supporting hardware.
CPU
Business impact analysis
Network Layer Protocols
Cloud computing
10. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.
OSI: Network Layer
Insourcing
CPU
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
11. Delivery of packets from one station to another - on the same network or on different networks.
less than 24 hours
TCP/IP Link Layer
Critical Path Methodology
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
12. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
A Sample Mean
Background checks performed
Prblem Management
13. Who is responsible for imposing an IT governance model encompassing IT strategy - information security - and formal enterprise architectural mandates?
OSI: Network Layer
ISO 20000 Standard:
IT executives and the Board of Directors
Buffers
14. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.
Release management
The Eight Types of Audits
Input validation checking
More difficult to perform
15. 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.
Dimensions of the COSO cube
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
IT executives and the Board of Directors
Critical Path Methodology
16. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.
Background checks performed
Six steps of the Release Management process
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
The Requirements
17. Guide program execution through organization of resources and development of clear project objectives.
Testing activities
Controls
Project Management Strategies
More difficult to perform
18. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
Tolerable Error Rate
Resource details
A Sample Mean
19. 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
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
Judgmental sampling
The Business Process Life Cycle
Audit logging
20. The process of recording the configuration of IT systems. Each configuration setting is known in ITSM parlance as a Configuration Item.
Capability Maturity Model
Configuration Management
A Server Cluster
Elements of the COSO pyramid
21. Gantt: used to display ______________.
ISO 20000 Standard:
Resource details
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
Documentation and interview personnel
22. A sampling technique where items are chosen at random; each item has a statistically equal probability of being chosen.
Documentation and interview personnel
Statistical Sampling
Security Awareness program
The Steering Committee
23. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them
Information security policy
Database primary key
BCP Plans
Inherent Risk
24. Support the functioning of the application controls
Project change request
General Controls
An Integrated Audit
Current and most up-to-date
25. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.
Entire password for an encryption key
Six steps of the Release Management process
Stay current with technology
Information security policy
26. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.
Detection Risk
Audit Methodologies
Control Risk
Inherent Risk
27. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.
Hash
The BCP process
Confidence coefficient
A Cold Site
28. (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
Database primary key
Recovery time objective
More difficult to perform
Examples of Application Controls
29. A programmer is updating an application that saves passwords in plaintext. In this case - Passwords should be stored in a _____. This makes it impossible for any person to retrieve a password - which could lead to account compromise.
Formal waterfall
Project change request
Hash
less than 24 hours
30. 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
Application Controls
Six steps of the Release Management process
Notify the Audit Committee
Employee termination process
31. 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.
PERT Diagram?
An IS audit
Foreign Key
Business Continuity
32. Critical Path Methodology helps a project manager determine which activities are on a project's critical list - ________________________.
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
The Release process
A Sample Mean
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
33. Framework for auditing and measuring IT Service Management Processes.
Critical Path Methodology
BCP Plans
TCP/IP Transport Layer
ISO 20000 Standard:
34. In Release Management - _________________ means that each step of the release process undergoes formal review and approval before the next step is allowed to begin.
Insourcing
The Requirements
A gate process
A Server Cluster
35. 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
The BCP process
Sampling Risk
Information security policy
36. 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
TCP/IP Transport Layer
An Administrative
Entire password for an encryption key
37. 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
Project Management Strategies
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
The availability of IT systems
Background checks performed
38. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance
A Sample Mean
TCP/IP Transport Layer
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
Options for Risk Treatment
39. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
TCP/IP Transport Layer
BCP Plans
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
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
Business Realization
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
Substantive Testing
41. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.
Prblem Management
Information security policy
A Cold Site
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
42. 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
Grid Computing
IT Service Management
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
Input validation checking
43. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components
A Server Cluster
BCP Plans
Criticality analysis
The availability of IT systems
44. To ensure that input values are within established ranges - of the correct character types - and free of harmful contents.
TCP/IP Network Model
The Business Process Life Cycle
Input validation checking
Referential Integrity
45. 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.
Application Controls
Risk Management
Confidence coefficient
Gantt Chart
46. 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
Control Risk
Audit Methodologies
Geographic location
47. One of a database table's fields - whose value is unique.
Control Risk
Elements of the COSO pyramid
Stratified Sampling
Database primary key
48. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.
The first step in a business impact analysis
PERT Diagram?
Judgmental sampling
The Business Process Life Cycle
49. What type of testing is performed to determine if control procedures have proper design and are operating properly?
Advantages of outsourcing
OSI: Network Layer
Compliance Testing
Organizational culture and maturity
50. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act
Deming Cycle
Insourcing
Split custody
BCP Plans