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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. To measure organizational performance and effectiveness against strategic goals.
Balanced Scorecard
Stratified Sampling
Data Link Layer Standards
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
2. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.
Inform the auditee
Application Layer protocols
Employee termination process
OSI: Network Layer
3. During the development phase - Developers should only be performing Unit Testing - to verify that the individual sections of code they have written are performing properly.
Categories of risk treatment
Testing activities
A gate process
Reduced sign-on
4. The main hardware component of a computer system - which executes instructions in computer programs.
Employee termination process
CPU
Configuration Management
A Virtual Server
5. (1.) Feasibility Study (2.) Definition of Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation phase
Database primary key
OSI: Network Layer
SDLC Phases
A Forensic Audit
6. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review
Emergency Changes
Formal waterfall
Examples of IT General Controls
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
7. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.
Audit logging
Blade Computer Architecture
OSI Layer 7: Application
Judgmental sampling
8. Used to measure the relative maturity of an organization and its processes.
less than 24 hours
Disaster Recovery
Main types of Controls
Capability Maturity Model
9. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.
OSI Layer 7: Application
Service Continuity Management
Risk Management
Criticality analysis
10. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.
A Cold Site
Project Management Strategies
Gantt Chart
OSI: Data Link Layer
11. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP
Database primary key
Transport Layer Protocols
Sample Standard Deviation
Precision means
12. 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.
Attribute Sampling
Business Realization
Examples of IT General Controls
Capability Maturity Model
13. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.
TCP/IP Network Model
Split custody
Notify the Audit Committee
Separate administrative accounts
14. The means by which management establishes and measures processes by which organizational objectives are achieved
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
Controls
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
An Integrated Audit
15. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.
An Operational Audit
Sampling Risk
ISO 20000 Standard:
General Controls
16. 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.
Discovery Sampling
Control Risk
Security Awareness program
A gate process
17. An auditor has reviewed access privileges of some employees and has discovered that employees with longer terms of service have excessive privileges. This means User privileges are not being removed from their old position when they transfer to a new
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Employees with excessive privileges
An Administrative
Current and most up-to-date
18. 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.
Stop-or-go Sampling
A Server Cluster
Formal waterfall
Reduced sign-on
19. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)
Options for Risk Treatment
Detection Risk
Audit Methodologies
Control Unit
20. (1.) General (2.) Application
Main types of Controls
Categories of risk treatment
Server cluster
Security Awareness program
21. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
Recovery time objective
Detection Risk
Split custody
22. 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.
Three Types of Controls
Emergency Changes
Function Point Analysis
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
23. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.
Sampling
Emergency Changes
Prblem Management
Registers
24. 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
Confidence coefficient
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Notify the Audit Committee
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
25. 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.
A Problem
Critical Path Methodology
Detection Risk
Blade Computer Architecture
26. 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.
Registers
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
Separate administrative accounts
More difficult to perform
27. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine how many samples possess a specific characteristic.
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
ISO 20000 Standard:
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
Attribute Sampling
28. 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.
Compliance Testing
Cloud computing
Risk Management
Vulnerability in the organization's PBX
29. 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
Reduced sign-on
Inherent Risk
IT executives and the Board of Directors
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
30. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.
Confidence coefficient
Blade Computer Architecture
Insourcing
A gate process
31. The maximum period of downtime for a process or application
Statement of Impact
Assess the maturity of its business processes
Recovery time objective
CPU
32. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.
General Controls
Resource details
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
Confidence coefficient
33. 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 _________________.
The availability of IT systems
Background checks performed
Stratified Sampling
Entire password for an encryption key
34. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
Information systems access
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
Sample Standard Deviation
35. 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.
Grid Computing
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
Sampling Risk
Assess the maturity of its business processes
36. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time
Security Awareness program
Statement of Impact
BCP Plans
TCP/IP Link Layer
37. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.
A Compliance audit
Inform the auditee
TCP/IP Link Layer
OSI: Network Layer
38. 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
A Cold Site
Insourcing
Hash
Referential Integrity
39. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.
OSI: Physical Layer
Incident Management
Service Level Management
The first step in a business impact analysis
40. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance
Server cluster
Options for Risk Treatment
Six steps of the Release Management process
Testing activities
41. To ensure that input values are within established ranges - of the correct character types - and free of harmful contents.
Function Point Analysis
Organizational culture and maturity
Judgmental sampling
Input validation checking
42. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery
An Operational Audit
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
OSI: Transport Layer
Detection Risk
43. 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.
Foreign Key
Attribute Sampling
Volumes of COSO framework
Audit logging
44. The process to ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of all changes.
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Detection Risk
Criticality analysis
45. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records
The Release process
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
Sampling
A Problem
46. 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
Risk Management
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
Inherent Risk
IT Service Management
47. Should include 4 steps: (1.) Emergency Approval (2.) Implementation (3.) Verification (4.) Review
Recovery time objective
The Business Process Life Cycle
Categories of risk treatment
Emergency Changes
48. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
The Software Program Library
Information security policy
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
49. 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
Blade Computer Architecture
Three Types of Controls
Sampling Risk
Separate administrative accounts
50. A facility that is used to store and manage access to an organization's application source and object code. It consists of 5 parts: (1.) Access and authorization controls (2.) Program checkout (3.) Program Check-in (4.) Version Control (5.) Code Ana
Attribute Sampling
IT Services Financial Management
The Software Program Library
Sampling