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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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1. 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
Critical Path Methodology
A Cold Site
Database primary key
The Software Program Library
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.
Insourcing
Formal waterfall
Referential Integrity
Sampling Risk
3. The process of recording the configuration of IT systems. Each configuration setting is known in ITSM parlance as a Configuration Item.
Formal waterfall
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
Configuration Management
WAN Protocols
4. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.
Substantive Testing
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
Service Level Management
Business impact analysis
5. Focuses on: post-event recovery and restoration of services
Security Awareness program
Control Risk
Disaster Recovery
Department Charters
6. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.
List of systems examined
Prblem Management
Frameworks
Grid Computing
7. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application
Controls
Documentation and interview personnel
TCP/IP Network Model
Server cluster
8. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration
PERT Diagram?
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
Sampling Risk
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
9. Support the functioning of the application controls
Stay current with technology
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
General Controls
10. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.
TCP/IP Link Layer
Grid Computing
Dimensions of the COSO cube
General Controls
11. (1.) Utility (DNS - SNMP - DHCP (2.) Messaging protocols (SMTP) (3.) Data Transfer protocols (NFS - FTP) (4.) Interactive protocols (Telnet)
Application Layer protocols
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
Employee termination process
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
12. The party that performs strategic planning - addresses near-term and long-term requirements aligning business objectives - and technology strategies.
General Controls
The Steering Committee
Information security policy
The BCP process
13. 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
Application Controls
Insourcing
Blade Computer Architecture
Categories of risk treatment
14. Used for several types of system changes: (1.) Incidents and problem resolution (bug fixes.) (2.) Enhancements (new functionality.) (3.) Subsystem patches and changes (require testing similar to when changes are made to the application itself.)
Business impact analysis
The Release process
Options for Risk Treatment
Geographic location
15. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality
Foreign Key
The BCP process
Criticality analysis
Blade Computer Architecture
16. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.
OSI Layer 7: Application
TCP/IP Link Layer
Business impact analysis
Inherent Risk
17. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.
Inherent Risk
Geographic location
Attribute Sampling
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
18. To determine effectiveness of a disaster recovery program - an IT auditor should examine _____________.
Database primary key
ISO 20000 Standard:
Registers
Documentation and interview personnel
19. (1.) MPLS (2.) SONET (3.) T-Carrier (4.) Frame Relay (5.) ISDN (6.) X.25
WAN Protocols
PERT Diagram?
The Eight Types of Audits
Employee termination process
20. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review
Overall audit risk
The Business Process Life Cycle
Formal waterfall
Audit Methodologies
21. (1.) LAN protocols (2.) 80 (2.) 11 MAC/LLC (WiFi) (3.) Common Carrier packet networks (4.) ARP (5.) PPP and SLIP (6.) Tunneling - PPTP - L2TP
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
Data Link Layer Standards
Testing activities
A Service Provider audit
22. External auditors are needed under these conditions: (1.) When the organization ________________________. (2.) Some regulations and standards require external - independent auditors
Transport Layer Protocols
Deming Cycle
The two Categories of Controls
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
23. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.
Business impact analysis
The Business Process Life Cycle
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
Function Point Analysis
24. 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
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
The availability of IT systems
Reduced sign-on
Buffers
25. (1.) IP (2.) ICMP (3.) RRC (Radio Resource Control) (4.) AppleTalk
Separate administrative accounts
Network Layer Protocols
OSI Layer 5: Session
Gantt Chart
26. Define 10 elements of an Audit - (1.) Subject of audit (2.) Audit Objective (3.) Type of audit (4.) Audit scope (5.) Pre-audit planning (6.) Audit procedures (7.) Communication plan (8.) Report Preparation (9.) Wrap-up (10.) Post-audit follow-up
Audit Methodologies
Compliance Testing
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
Documentation and interview personnel
27. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.
PERT Diagram?
Statement of Impact
objective and unbiased
Service Continuity Management
28. Deliver messages from one station to another on the same network or on different networks. Messaging at this layer is not guaranteed.
Network Layer Protocols
TCP/IP Internet Layer
Geographic location
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
29. An audit of operational efficiency.
IT executives and the Board of Directors
An Administrative
Deming Cycle
Discovery Sampling
30. To measure organizational performance and effectiveness against strategic goals.
Assess the maturity of its business processes
Balanced Scorecard
Stay current with technology
Foreign Key
31. An organization has discovered that some of its employees have criminal records. The best course of action for the organization to take - The organization should have ___________________ on all of its existing employees and also begin instituting bac
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
Capability Maturity Model
OSI: Data Link Layer
Background checks performed
32. An audit report usually includes the following 10 elements: (1.) Cover letter (2.) Introduction (3.) Summary (4.) Audit description (5.) _______________ (6.) Interviewees (7.) Evidence (8.) Explanation of sampling techniques (9.) Findings (10.) Recom
TCP/IP Internet Layer
List of systems examined
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
Sampling Risk
33. Used to estimate the effort required to develop a software program.
Function Point Analysis
OSI: Data Link Layer
The BCP process
Statistical Sampling
34. 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
Geographic location
OSI Layer 5: Session
Gantt Chart
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
35. 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 Layer 5: Session
Business Continuity
A Financial Audit
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
36. 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
Notify the Audit Committee
Assess the maturity of its business processes
Stay current with technology
Risk Management
37. 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
A Cold Site
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
Department Charters
Resource details
38. 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?
Sampling Risk
OSI Layer 5: Session
Critical Path Methodology
Risk Management
39. (1.) Feasibility (2.) Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation
Risk Management
Antivirus software on the email servers
Expected Error Rate
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
40. 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.
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
TCP/IP Network Model
OSI Layer 5: Session
41. The means by which management establishes and measures processes by which organizational objectives are achieved
Controls
An IS audit
Application Controls
Inherent Risk
42. 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.
The BCP process
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
Hash
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
43. ____________________ 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
Geographic location
Grid Computing
IT Strategy
WAN Protocols
44. 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.
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
The Software Program Library
Primary security features of relational databases
Control Risk
45. 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
TCP/IP Transport Layer
CPU
Department Charters
Capability Maturity Model
46. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.
PERT Diagram?
OSI: Data Link Layer
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
A Compliance audit
47. Gantt: used to display ______________.
A Cold Site
Resource details
Cloud computing
The first step in a business impact analysis
48. (1.) Feasibility Study (2.) Definition of Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation phase
Elements of the COBIT Framework
The two Categories of Controls
SDLC Phases
A Service Provider audit
49. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Control Unit
Inform the auditee
Release management
50. The primary source for test plans in a software development project is: ________________ that are developed for a project should be the primary source for detailed tests.
Emergency Changes
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
The Requirements
Current and most up-to-date