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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The process to ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of all changes.
Risk Management
Stay current with technology
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Statistical Sampling
2. 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.
Main types of Controls
Gantt Chart
Grid Computing
Inherent Risk
3. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.
Current and most up-to-date
An Operational Audit
Vulnerability in the organization's PBX
Balanced Scorecard
4. In Release Management - _________________ means that each step of the release process undergoes formal review and approval before the next step is allowed to begin.
Examples of Application Controls
Variable Sampling
Primary security features of relational databases
A gate process
5. What type of testing is performed to verify the accuracy and integrity of transactions as they flow through a system?
Substantive Testing
Separate administrative accounts
Sampling
A Virtual Server
6. 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)
Documentation and interview personnel
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
Information systems access
A Cold Site
7. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.
Reduced sign-on
Power system controls
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
An IS audit
8. Focuses on: post-event recovery and restoration of services
Disaster Recovery
CPU
Compliance Testing
Input validation checking
9. 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
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
Function Point Analysis
Detection Risk
A Sample Mean
10. (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
List of systems examined
Confidence coefficient
IT Strategy
Examples of Application Controls
11. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time
The Requirements
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
Statement of Impact
The BCP process
12. The main hardware component of a computer system - which executes instructions in computer programs.
Risk Management
CPU
OSI: Transport Layer
Server cluster
13. Critical Path Methodology helps a project manager determine which activities are on a project's critical list - ________________________.
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
Assess the maturity of its business processes
OSI Layer 5: Session
Antivirus software on the email servers
14. Gantt: used to display ______________.
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
TCP/IP Transport Layer
Resource details
Six steps of the Release Management process
15. 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.
Expected Error Rate
A Service Provider audit
Testing activities
Critical Path Methodology
16. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.
The Requirements
Sampling
Change management
Confidence coefficient
17. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Confidence coefficient
Control Risk
Options for Risk Treatment
18. (1.) General (2.) Application
A Sample Mean
WAN Protocols
The availability of IT systems
Main types of Controls
19. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.
PERT Diagram?
Server cluster
TCP/IP Transport Layer
The audit program
20. 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
A Cold Site
The Software Program Library
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
IT Services Financial Management
21. 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
A gate process
Project change request
Disaster Recovery
22. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
The Software Program Library
Gantt Chart
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
23. Used to control connections that are established between systems (1.) TCP (2.) IPC (3.) SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) (4.) RPC (Remote Procedure Call) (5.) NetBIOS
OSI Layer 5: Session
Notify the Audit Committee
Attribute Sampling
Function Point Analysis
24. 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 _________________.
Sample Standard Deviation
Entire password for an encryption key
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
Resource details
25. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Insourcing
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
A Forensic Audit
26. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
The two Categories of Controls
A Virtual Server
Detection Risk
27. An audit of an accounting system - accounting department processes - and procedures to determine if business controls are sufficient to ensure the integrity of financial statements.
OSI: Physical Layer
A Financial Audit
A gate process
Disaster Recovery
28. (1.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication
A Problem
Service Level Management
Control Risk
Elements of the COSO pyramid
29. 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.
Project change request
Referential Integrity
An IS audit
Control Risk
30. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
Main types of Controls
Recovery time objective
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
31. What type of testing is performed to determine if control procedures have proper design and are operating properly?
Compliance Testing
Expected Error Rate
Tolerable Error Rate
Registers
32. 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
More difficult to perform
Organizational culture and maturity
Project Management Strategies
The Requirements
33. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.
Advantages of outsourcing
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
Insourcing
Prblem Management
34. 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
PERT Diagram?
OSI Layer 7: Application
Sampling Risk
Reduced sign-on
35. 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
TCP/IP Link Layer
Employee termination process
Organizational culture and maturity
36. An external IS auditor has discovered a _______________________ - The external auditor can only document the finding in the audit report. An external auditor is not in a position to implement controls.
A Financial Audit
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
Reduced sign-on
37. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance
The Requirements
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
Prblem Management
Categories of risk treatment
38. 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
Audit logging
Grid Computing
Elements of the COBIT Framework
Department Charters
39. 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
TCP/IP Internet Layer
The Business Process Life Cycle
TCP/IP Network Model
OSI Layer 7: Application
40. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.
Primary security features of relational databases
OSI: Network Layer
Examples of Application Controls
Project change request
41. (1.) MPLS (2.) SONET (3.) T-Carrier (4.) Frame Relay (5.) ISDN (6.) X.25
IT Services Financial Management
WAN Protocols
Disaster Recovery
Elements of the COBIT Framework
42. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.
The availability of IT systems
PERT Diagram?
Categories of risk treatment
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
43. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them
IT Strategy
Inherent Risk
Function Point Analysis
TCP/IP Link Layer
44. Collections of Controls that work together to achieve an entire range of an organization's objectives.
Frameworks
General Controls
Confidence coefficient
Prblem Management
45. Used to estimate the effort required to develop a software program.
Business Continuity
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
Function Point Analysis
The audit program
46. 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.
Split custody
Audit logging
Registers
OSI: Data Link Layer
47. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.
IT executives and the Board of Directors
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Audit logging
Data Link Layer Standards
48. The means by which management establishes and measures processes by which organizational objectives are achieved
Hash
A gate process
Options for Risk Treatment
Controls
49. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance
Balanced Scorecard
Options for Risk Treatment
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
Function Point Analysis
50. n audit strategy and plans that include: (1.) Scope (2.) Objectives (3.) Resources (4.) Procedures used to evaluation controls and processes
The audit program
Main types of Controls
Server cluster
Control Risk