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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. (1.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
Elements of the COSO pyramid
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
less than 24 hours
2. A sampling technique where at least one exception is sought in a population
Discovery Sampling
The Eight Types of Audits
ISO 20000 Standard:
Background checks performed
3. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act
OSI Layer 5: Session
Deming Cycle
The BCP process
Statistical Sampling
4. Guide program execution through organization of resources and development of clear project objectives.
Employee termination process
Project Management Strategies
Examples of Application Controls
TCP/IP Internet Layer
5. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample
Sample Standard Deviation
Employee termination process
Business impact analysis
Notify the Audit Committee
6. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.
Business impact analysis
IT Services Financial Management
Sample Standard Deviation
Vulnerability in the organization's PBX
7. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records
Organizational culture and maturity
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
IT Strategy
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
8. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.
Recovery time objective
An Administrative
Testing activities
Detection Risk
9. 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.
A Cold Site
Critical Path Methodology
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
Sampling Risk
10. 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.
Overall audit risk
An Operational Audit
Hash
Deming Cycle
11. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.
Blade Computer Architecture
Gantt Chart
Information security policy
Stratified Sampling
12. The means by which management establishes and measures processes by which organizational objectives are achieved
A Forensic Audit
Change management
Controls
objective and unbiased
13. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.
Input validation checking
Inform the auditee
Control Unit
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
14. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems
Data Link Layer Standards
The first step in a business impact analysis
Service Level Management
An IS audit
15. An organization that has experienced a sudden increase in its long-distance charges has asked an auditor to investigate. The auditor is most likely to suspect that intruders have discovered a ______________________and is committing toll fraud.
16. A collection of two or more servers that is designed to appear as a single server.
Background checks performed
Balanced Scorecard
Server cluster
Volumes of COSO framework
17. 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
Reduced sign-on
IT Strategy
More difficult to perform
Balanced Scorecard
18. One of a database table's fields - whose value is unique.
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
Stay current with technology
Function Point Analysis
Database primary key
19. 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 Software Program Library
Recovery time objective
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
Foreign Key
20. 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.
Configuration Management
The availability of IT systems
Cloud computing
Function Point Analysis
21. 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.
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
A Server Cluster
Network Layer Protocols
A Cold Site
22. Handle application processing
A Sample Mean
Application Controls
Geographic location
CPU
23. 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
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
Options for Risk Treatment
Department Charters
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
24. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery
Prblem Management
Dimensions of the COSO cube
A Cold Site
OSI: Transport Layer
25. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider
The Eight Types of Audits
The Business Process Life Cycle
Service Continuity Management
Judgmental sampling
26. Gantt: used to display ______________.
Release management
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
Resource details
27. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
A Problem
IT executives and the Board of Directors
TCP/IP Internet Layer
28. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.
Six steps of the Release Management process
Input validation checking
Prblem Management
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
29. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.
General Controls
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Current and most up-to-date
Geographic location
30. 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.)
The Release process
Incident Management
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
Tolerable Error Rate
31. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.
Background checks performed
PERT Diagram?
General Controls
Stay current with technology
32. 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.
TCP/IP Link Layer
Audit logging
The Release process
Employee termination process
33. 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.
Formal waterfall
Referential Integrity
Security Awareness program
Disaster Recovery
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
OSI: Network Layer
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
OSI Layer 5: Session
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
35. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance
Business impact analysis
Deming Cycle
Categories of risk treatment
Control Risk
36. What type of testing is performed to verify the accuracy and integrity of transactions as they flow through a system?
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
Inform the auditee
Power system controls
Substantive Testing
37. Outsourcing is an opportunity for the organization to focus on core competencies. When an organization oursources a business function - it no longer needs to be concerned about training employees in that function. Outsources does not always reduce co
Advantages of outsourcing
List of systems examined
Split custody
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
38. An estimate that expresses the percent of errors or exceptions that may exist in an entire population
A Server Cluster
Expected Error Rate
IT Service Management
TCP/IP Internet Layer
39. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality
Criticality analysis
TCP/IP Internet Layer
Organizational culture and maturity
Data Link Layer Standards
40. 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.
Project change request
Service Level Management
Stop-or-go Sampling
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
41. 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 _________________.
Categories of risk treatment
A Problem
Entire password for an encryption key
Control Risk
42. 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.
CPU
A Problem
TCP/IP Internet Layer
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
43. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.
Control Risk
Registers
Business Continuity
OSI: Physical Layer
44. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
Sample Standard Deviation
An IS audit
Application Controls
45. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components
The availability of IT systems
OSI: Data Link Layer
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
Inform the auditee
46. 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.
IT Strategy
Recovery time objective
Organizational culture and maturity
Sampling Risk
47. 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.
Data Link Layer Standards
An Integrated Audit
Gantt Chart
Power system controls
48. The IS auditor should conduct a risk assessment first to determine which areas have highest risk. She should devote more testing resources to those high-risk areas.
IT Services Financial Management
Assess the maturity of its business processes
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
The two Categories of Controls
49. 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 ________.
Disaster Recovery
An Administrative
Function Point Analysis
less than 24 hours
50. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration
Inherent Risk
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
Documentation and interview personnel