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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning
Advantages of outsourcing
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
Project Management Strategies
Application Controls
2. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine the numeric total of a specific attribute from the entire population.
TCP/IP Transport Layer
Overall audit risk
The Steering Committee
Variable Sampling
3. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.
Registers
TCP/IP Transport Layer
Options for Risk Treatment
Split custody
4. 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.
Six steps of the Release Management process
Business impact analysis
Gantt Chart
Vulnerability in the organization's PBX
5. 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
Variable Sampling
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
TCP/IP Link Layer
6. 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
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
7. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider
Configuration Management
The Eight Types of Audits
OSI: Data Link Layer
OSI: Physical Layer
8. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems
The first step in a business impact analysis
A Cold Site
Capability Maturity Model
Hash
9. 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.
Sample Standard Deviation
Expected Error Rate
Referential Integrity
Foreign Key
10. 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
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
Testing activities
Compliance Testing
11. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
List of systems examined
An Integrated Audit
Background checks performed
12. 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 Requirements
Employees with excessive privileges
Six steps of the Release Management process
Background checks performed
13. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
Assess the maturity of its business processes
A Financial Audit
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
14. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP
Transport Layer Protocols
Emergency Changes
Server cluster
WAN Protocols
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.
Data Link Layer Standards
A Compliance audit
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
Testing activities
16. 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
Buffers
Detection Risk
Information security policy
Disaster Recovery
17. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
The availability of IT systems
Compliance Testing
TCP/IP Network Model
18. Used to measure the relative maturity of an organization and its processes.
Categories of risk treatment
Capability Maturity Model
Disaster Recovery
IT executives and the Board of Directors
19. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.
Input validation checking
Structural fires and transportation accidents
A Cold Site
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
20. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.
The two Categories of Controls
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
Variable Sampling
Blade Computer Architecture
21. To ensure that input values are within established ranges - of the correct character types - and free of harmful contents.
Gantt Chart
Stratified Sampling
Business impact analysis
Input validation checking
22. 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.
Stop-or-go Sampling
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
Tolerable Error Rate
SDLC Phases
23. 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
Risk Management
BCP Plans
Database primary key
IT Service Management
24. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery
Inherent Risk
Department Charters
Control Unit
OSI: Transport Layer
25. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.
TCP/IP Link Layer
The availability of IT systems
Stay current with technology
OSI: Network Layer
26. (1.) Reliable delivery (2.) Connection oriented (persistent connection) (3.) Order of Delivery (4.) Flow Control (transfer rate is throttled) (5.) Port Number
TCP/IP Transport Layer
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
A Problem
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
27. A software developer has informed the project manager that a portion of the application development is going to take five additional days to complete. The project manager make a __________________ to document the reason for the change.
Project change request
Reduced sign-on
An IS audit
OSI Layer 5: Session
28. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application
Change management
TCP/IP Network Model
Audit Methodologies
Cloud computing
29. 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
Registers
OSI: Physical Layer
Testing activities
Notify the Audit Committee
30. A CMM helps an organization to _______________ - which is an important first step to any large-scale process improvement effort.
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
Assess the maturity of its business processes
WAN Protocols
Expected Error Rate
31. 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.
Attribute Sampling
BCP Plans
Sample Standard Deviation
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
32. The purpose of an auditor doing interviews - To observe personnel to better understand their discipline - as well as ______________.
Three Types of Controls
Hash
Organizational culture and maturity
The Steering Committee
33. The result of strategic planning - process development - and systems development - which all contribute towards a launch of business operations to reach a set of business objectives.
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
OSI Layer 5: Session
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
Business Realization
34. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual
Business Realization
Insourcing
The two Categories of Controls
OSI: Data Link Layer
35. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified
Department Charters
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
Precision means
36. (1.) Feasibility Study (2.) Definition of Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation phase
CPU
Hash
Assess the maturity of its business processes
SDLC Phases
37. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment
Stratified Sampling
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
Six steps of the Release Management process
Balanced Scorecard
38. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.
The audit program
Elements of the COBIT Framework
Critical Path Methodology
Judgmental sampling
39. 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.
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
Documentation and interview personnel
Stratified Sampling
Security Awareness program
40. What type of testing is performed to verify the accuracy and integrity of transactions as they flow through a system?
Audit logging
TCP/IP Network Model
Attribute Sampling
Substantive Testing
41. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.
OSI Layer 7: Application
IT Service Management
The first step in a business impact analysis
Employees with excessive privileges
42. 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)
A Service Provider audit
Information systems access
Expected Error Rate
OSI: Physical Layer
43. The means by which management establishes and measures processes by which organizational objectives are achieved
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Resource details
Controls
A Compliance audit
44. (1.) Develop a BC Policy (2.) Conduct BIA (3.) Perform critical analysis (4.) Establish recovery targets (5.) Develop recovery and continuity strategies and plans (6.) Test recovery and continuity plans and procedures Train personnel Maintain strateg
Frameworks
The BCP process
Examples of Application Controls
Split custody
45. 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
Reduced sign-on
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
Control Risk
46. A collection of two or more servers that is designed to appear as a single server.
Server cluster
Audit Methodologies
A Problem
Blade Computer Architecture
47. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
Critical Path Methodology
Organizational culture and maturity
Sample Standard Deviation
48. ____________________ 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
IT Strategy
Geographic location
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
Disaster Recovery
49. An active - instance of a server operating system running on a machine that is designed to house two or more such virtual servers.
Incident Management
A Virtual Server
Split custody
OSI: Data Link Layer
50. (1.) Physical (2.) Technical (4.) Administrative
Referential Integrity
Server cluster
Emergency Changes
Three Types of Controls