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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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1. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.
Elements of the COBIT Framework
An Integrated Audit
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
Discovery Sampling
2. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
TCP/IP Transport Layer
Control Unit
Capability Maturity Model
3. Guide program execution through organization of resources and development of clear project objectives.
PERT Diagram?
A Cold Site
IT Strategy
Project Management Strategies
4. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Framework (3.) Reporting to External Parties (4.) Evaluation Tools
Volumes of COSO framework
Balanced Scorecard
Function Point Analysis
The Release process
5. Framework for auditing and measuring IT Service Management Processes.
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
ISO 20000 Standard:
Current and most up-to-date
Assess the maturity of its business processes
6. 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
Antivirus software on the email servers
Balanced Scorecard
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
Categories of risk treatment
7. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.
Judgmental sampling
Control Risk
Grid Computing
A Sample Mean
8. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.
Cloud computing
PERT Diagram?
Sampling
Balanced Scorecard
9. 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
Audit Methodologies
Control Risk
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
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.
Notify the Audit Committee
An Administrative
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
Frameworks
11. 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
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
CPU
Sampling Risk
Hash
12. 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.
Attribute Sampling
The BCP process
Application Layer protocols
A Problem
13. Who is responsible for imposing an IT governance model encompassing IT strategy - information security - and formal enterprise architectural mandates?
Information systems access
The Software Program Library
IT executives and the Board of Directors
An IS audit
14. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Governance and control framework (3.) Control Objectives (4.) Management Guidelines (5.) Implementation Guide (6.) IT Assurance Guide
Deming Cycle
The two Categories of Controls
Three Types of Controls
Elements of the COBIT Framework
15. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.
Detection Risk
Gantt Chart
Examples of IT General Controls
Business Realization
16. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.
Disaster Recovery
Grid Computing
Network Layer Protocols
Release management
17. To review and approve proposed changes to systems and infrastructure. This helps to reduce the risk of unintended events and unplanned downtime.
IT executives and the Board of Directors
Change management
ISO 20000 Standard:
An Operational Audit
18. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.
Discovery Sampling
An Operational Audit
OSI Layer 7: Application
IT Strategy
19. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.
More difficult to perform
Variable Sampling
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
The Software Program Library
20. Focuses on: post-event recovery and restoration of services
Options for Risk Treatment
Disaster Recovery
Substantive Testing
Critical Path Methodology
21. An IS auditor has discovered a high-risk exception during control testing. The best course of action for the IS auditor to take - The IS auditor should immediately ________________ when any high-risk situation is discovered.
Inform the auditee
Variable Sampling
The Release process
ISO 20000 Standard:
22. 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.
OSI: Physical Layer
Department Charters
TCP/IP Link Layer
Critical Path Methodology
23. 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.
Referential Integrity
Business Realization
Security Awareness program
Control Risk
24. 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.
Audit logging
Examples of Application Controls
Attribute Sampling
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
25. Focuses on: maintaining service availability with the least disruption to standard operating parameters during an event
Database primary key
Security Awareness program
Business Continuity
Input validation checking
26. A critical application is backed up once per day. The recovery point objective (RPO) for an application that is backed up once per day cannot be ________.
A Cold Site
The Eight Types of Audits
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
less than 24 hours
27. An organization is building a data center in an area frequented by power outages. The organization cannot tolerate power outages. The best _________________solution is an electric generator and an uninterruptible power supply. The UPS responds to the
Power system controls
General Controls
OSI: Network Layer
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
28. During an audit - the auditor should obtain 6 types of documents - (1.) Org charts (2.) ___________ (3.) third-party contracts (4.) policies and procedures (5.) standards (6.) system documentation
Substantive Testing
Power system controls
Department Charters
TCP/IP Transport Layer
29. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
List of systems examined
TCP/IP Transport Layer
OSI: Data Link Layer
30. An audit that is performed in support of an anticipated or active legal proceeding.
Variable Sampling
A Forensic Audit
Attribute Sampling
Gantt Chart
31. 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 _________________.
Entire password for an encryption key
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
The Business Process Life Cycle
A Service Provider audit
32. 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
Variable Sampling
Referential Integrity
objective and unbiased
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
33. 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 Requirements
Input validation checking
Gantt Chart
Notify the Audit Committee
34. An audit of operational efficiency.
Recovery time objective
A Problem
Stay current with technology
An Administrative
35. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.
Disaster Recovery
TCP/IP Link Layer
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
OSI: Physical Layer
36. An audit of an IS department's operations and systems.
Examples of Application Controls
objective and unbiased
An IS audit
Project change request
37. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
Geographic location
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Grid Computing
38. 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
Network Layer Protocols
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
Six steps of the Release Management process
Employee termination process
39. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Information security policy
IT Service Management
40. 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
IT executives and the Board of Directors
Buffers
OSI Layer 5: Session
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
41. 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.
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
SDLC Phases
Control Risk
Network Layer Protocols
42. Collections of Controls that work together to achieve an entire range of an organization's objectives.
Controls
Business Continuity
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
Frameworks
43. An estimate that expresses the percent of errors or exceptions that may exist in an entire population
An Operational Audit
Expected Error Rate
Resource details
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
44. 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.
Input validation checking
The first step in a business impact analysis
Blade Computer Architecture
Stratified Sampling
45. ____________________ 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
Statement of Impact
Geographic location
The Steering Committee
Current and most up-to-date
46. The set of activities that is concerned with the ability of the organization to continue to provide services - primarily in the event that a natural or man made disaster has occurred.
Blade Computer Architecture
Service Continuity Management
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Geographic location
47. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.
Stop-or-go Sampling
Insourcing
OSI Layer 7: Application
Stay current with technology
48. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.
TCP/IP Link Layer
List of systems examined
Application Layer protocols
Discovery Sampling
49. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.
An Administrative
Service Continuity Management
Service Level Management
Configuration Management
50. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.
Power system controls
Service Level Management
Transport Layer Protocols
OSI: Network Layer