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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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1. 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
Control Unit
ISO 20000 Standard:
Reduced sign-on
Documentation and interview personnel
2. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.
Blade Computer Architecture
IT Services Financial Management
Separate administrative accounts
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
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.
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
Three Types of Controls
Stratified Sampling
Power system controls
4. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
TCP/IP Network Model
Judgmental sampling
Statement of Impact
5. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.
Network Layer Protocols
A Cold Site
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Business impact analysis
6. 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
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
A Virtual Server
Insourcing
Information systems access
7. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
Primary security features of relational databases
Capability Maturity Model
Sampling
8. 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
Application Layer protocols
Inform the auditee
Three Types of Controls
IT Service Management
9. External auditors are needed under these conditions: (1.) When the organization ________________________. (2.) Some regulations and standards require external - independent auditors
Configuration Management
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
Resource details
Inform the auditee
10. The highest number of errors that can exist without a result being materially misstated.
Recovery time objective
Tolerable Error Rate
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
The Eight Types of Audits
11. 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.
Employees with excessive privileges
A Problem
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
Business Continuity
12. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
Control Risk
The Eight Types of Audits
Service Level Management
13. Any event which is not part of the standard operation of service and which causes or may cause an interruption to or reduction in quality of that service. Includes THREE incident types: (1.) Service Outage (2.) Service Slowdown (3.) Software Bug
Volumes of COSO framework
Structural fires and transportation accidents
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Incident Management
14. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act
Recovery time objective
Deming Cycle
Balanced Scorecard
Tolerable Error Rate
15. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified
General Controls
Stay current with technology
The Requirements
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
16. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.
Inherent Risk
Information security policy
The BCP process
Balanced Scorecard
17. Used to measure the relative maturity of an organization and its processes.
OSI Layer 5: Session
Statement of Impact
Inherent Risk
Capability Maturity Model
18. IS auditors can _____________________ through the following means: (1.) training courses (2.) webinars (3.) ISACA chapter training events (4.) Industry conferences
Stay current with technology
Grid Computing
Expected Error Rate
Detection Risk
19. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them
Cloud computing
Security Awareness program
Inherent Risk
List of systems examined
20. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
Power system controls
OSI: Network Layer
Change management
21. 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.
Data Link Layer Standards
Testing activities
A Virtual Server
Attribute Sampling
22. 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
Stop-or-go Sampling
The first step in a business impact analysis
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
less than 24 hours
23. The memory locations in the CPU where arithmetic values are stored.
Configuration Management
Employee termination process
Inform the auditee
Registers
24. 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.
Gantt Chart
Prblem Management
Service Level Management
Hash
25. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time
Security Awareness program
The availability of IT systems
Statement of Impact
Compliance Testing
26. (1.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas
Critical Path Methodology
less than 24 hours
Tolerable Error Rate
Dimensions of the COSO cube
27. The main hardware component of a computer system - which executes instructions in computer programs.
CPU
Cloud computing
OSI Layer 5: Session
Network Layer Protocols
28. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance
Business Continuity
Categories of risk treatment
Stop-or-go Sampling
TCP/IP Internet Layer
29. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.
Foreign Key
Service Continuity Management
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
A Compliance audit
30. 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
Business Realization
OSI: Network Layer
Buffers
Department Charters
31. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.
IT Services Financial Management
The Eight Types of Audits
Capability Maturity Model
Current and most up-to-date
32. 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
Geographic location
CPU
OSI: Data Link Layer
Notify the Audit Committee
33. What activity involves the identification of potential risk and the appropriate response for each threat based on impact assessment using qualitative and/or quantitative measures for an enterprise-wide risk management strategy?
Risk Management
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
Stop-or-go Sampling
A Service Provider audit
34. An audit of a third-party organization that provides services to other organizations.
OSI Layer 7: Application
IT Service Management
A Service Provider audit
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
35. The means by which management establishes and measures processes by which organizational objectives are achieved
Risk Management
Judgmental sampling
Dimensions of the COSO cube
Controls
36. 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
BCP Plans
The Business Process Life Cycle
An Operational Audit
TCP/IP Link Layer
37. To ensure that input values are within established ranges - of the correct character types - and free of harmful contents.
List of systems examined
Gantt Chart
Examples of IT General Controls
Input validation checking
38. 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
Compliance Testing
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
Buffers
39. 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
Documentation and interview personnel
IT Services Financial Management
Split custody
40. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.
An Integrated Audit
An IS audit
An Administrative
Risk Management
41. Handle application processing
Balanced Scorecard
Release management
Application Controls
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
42. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.
Business impact analysis
Inherent Risk
Discovery Sampling
Criticality analysis
43. (1.) Feasibility (2.) Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation
Service Continuity Management
Judgmental sampling
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
Information security policy
44. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Volumes of COSO framework
Inherent Risk
More difficult to perform
45. 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
Power system controls
Inform the auditee
The Steering Committee
46. 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?
Critical Path Methodology
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
Employee termination process
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
47. 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.
The BCP process
Project Management Strategies
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Foreign Key
48. 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.
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
A Server Cluster
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
OSI Layer 5: Session
49. 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.
Cloud computing
Control Risk
OSI: Physical Layer
Sampling Risk
50. Should include 4 steps: (1.) Emergency Approval (2.) Implementation (3.) Verification (4.) Review
Insourcing
Emergency Changes
An Administrative
ISO 20000 Standard: