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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Main types of Controls
Cloud computing
objective and unbiased
2. (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
Structural fires and transportation accidents
The BCP process
Audit Methodologies
Information security policy
3. An estimate that expresses the percent of errors or exceptions that may exist in an entire population
Stay current with technology
less than 24 hours
Expected Error Rate
Sampling Risk
4. 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.
Critical Path Methodology
The Software Program Library
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
5. The memory locations in the CPU where arithmetic values are stored.
Examples of Application Controls
Registers
Discovery Sampling
Tolerable Error Rate
6. IS auditors can _____________________ through the following means: (1.) training courses (2.) webinars (3.) ISACA chapter training events (4.) Industry conferences
Stop-or-go Sampling
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
Stay current with technology
7. 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
Audit Methodologies
Options for Risk Treatment
Hash
8. 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.
The Requirements
Sampling
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
9. Should include 4 steps: (1.) Emergency Approval (2.) Implementation (3.) Verification (4.) Review
Emergency Changes
Assess the maturity of its business processes
Statement of Impact
Balanced Scorecard
10. 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.
Detection Risk
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
Stop-or-go Sampling
PERT Diagram?
11. 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.
Audit Methodologies
Three Types of Controls
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
12. A sampling technique where items are chosen at random; each item has a statistically equal probability of being chosen.
Primary security features of relational databases
Statistical Sampling
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
Elements of the COBIT Framework
13. To communication security policies - procedures - and other security-related information to an organization's employees.
Security Awareness program
TCP/IP Link Layer
Department Charters
An IS audit
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.)
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
The Release process
Variable Sampling
Reduced sign-on
15. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)
Control Unit
Sampling
Documentation and interview personnel
Balanced Scorecard
16. 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
Confidence coefficient
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Primary security features of relational databases
17. Focuses on: post-event recovery and restoration of services
A Server Cluster
Disaster Recovery
Foreign Key
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
18. 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.
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
The audit program
IT Services Financial Management
Referential Integrity
19. n audit strategy and plans that include: (1.) Scope (2.) Objectives (3.) Resources (4.) Procedures used to evaluation controls and processes
Stop-or-go Sampling
The audit program
OSI: Transport Layer
Employee termination process
20. 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.
Gantt Chart
Split custody
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
Testing activities
21. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.
Detection Risk
WAN Protocols
The BCP process
Service Level Management
22. (1.) General (2.) Application
Main types of Controls
Sampling Risk
Judgmental sampling
A Server Cluster
23. The portion of IT management that tracks the financial value of IT services that support organizational objectives. It includes 4 activities: (1.) Budgeting (2.) Capital Investment (3.) Expense Management (4.) Project accounting and project ROI (Ret
IT Services Financial Management
Change management
Testing activities
List of systems examined
24. 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
A Financial Audit
Entire password for an encryption key
IT Service Management
Examples of Application Controls
25. (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
Business Realization
less than 24 hours
A Sample Mean
Data Link Layer Standards
26. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery
Buffers
OSI: Transport Layer
An Administrative
Criticality analysis
27. 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.
Discovery Sampling
Reduced sign-on
Transport Layer Protocols
A Server Cluster
28. 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
Information systems access
A Sample Mean
Overall audit risk
OSI Layer 5: Session
29. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Framework (3.) Reporting to External Parties (4.) Evaluation Tools
Six steps of the Release Management process
Stay current with technology
Volumes of COSO framework
A Problem
30. 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.
Business Realization
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
Judgmental sampling
Grid Computing
31. Framework for auditing and measuring IT Service Management Processes.
OSI: Transport Layer
ISO 20000 Standard:
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
Risk Management
32. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them
Inherent Risk
The first step in a business impact analysis
Vulnerability in the organization's PBX
objective and unbiased
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
Information security policy
Examples of IT General Controls
Control Unit
34. 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.
TCP/IP Network Model
Grid Computing
Gantt Chart
Audit logging
35. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning
Deming Cycle
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
Inform the auditee
Disaster Recovery
36. An audit that is performed in support of an anticipated or active legal proceeding.
A Service Provider audit
Input validation checking
A Forensic Audit
OSI Layer 7: Application
37. To determine effectiveness of a disaster recovery program - an IT auditor should examine _____________.
Service Continuity Management
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
Documentation and interview personnel
Options for Risk Treatment
38. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.
Vulnerability in the organization's PBX
Referential Integrity
Detection Risk
Business Continuity
39. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.
Project change request
Risk Management
Judgmental sampling
Transport Layer Protocols
40. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Governance and control framework (3.) Control Objectives (4.) Management Guidelines (5.) Implementation Guide (6.) IT Assurance Guide
A Cold Site
Risk Management
Configuration Management
Elements of the COBIT Framework
41. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.
Sampling
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
Business Realization
Function Point Analysis
42. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.
TCP/IP Link Layer
Insourcing
The Release process
Application Layer protocols
43. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.
Foreign Key
An Operational Audit
BCP Plans
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
44. An auditor has reviewed access privileges of some employees and has discovered that employees with longer terms of service have excessive privileges. This means User privileges are not being removed from their old position when they transfer to a new
Audit Methodologies
Control Unit
Employees with excessive privileges
Overall audit risk
45. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.
A Compliance audit
ISO 20000 Standard:
TCP/IP Transport Layer
Employee termination process
46. The 5 types of risks that are related to audits include: (1.) Control Risk (2.) Detection Risk (3.) Inherent risk (4.) _____________ (5.) Sampling risk
IT Service Management
Overall audit risk
General Controls
Main types of Controls
47. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records
Critical Path Methodology
TCP/IP Internet Layer
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
Frameworks
48. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.
Discovery Sampling
Service Continuity Management
A Cold Site
Six steps of the Release Management process
49. To review and approve proposed changes to systems and infrastructure. This helps to reduce the risk of unintended events and unplanned downtime.
Change management
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
A Problem
Statement of Impact
50. Subjective sampling is used when the auditor wants to _________________________.
Primary security features of relational databases
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
Vulnerability in the organization's PBX
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk