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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.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas
Dimensions of the COSO cube
An Administrative
Incident Management
Tolerable Error Rate
2. (1.) Utility (DNS - SNMP - DHCP (2.) Messaging protocols (SMTP) (3.) Data Transfer protocols (NFS - FTP) (4.) Interactive protocols (Telnet)
Application Layer protocols
Background checks performed
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
Organizational culture and maturity
3. 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
TCP/IP Internet Layer
IT Service Management
An Administrative
Reduced sign-on
4. 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?
PERT Diagram?
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
Project change request
A Forensic Audit
5. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.
General Controls
Incident Management
Hash
Release management
6. A large number of loosely coupled computers that are used to solve a common task may be in close proximity to each other or scattered over a large geographical area.
BCP Plans
Statistical Sampling
Grid Computing
Stratified Sampling
7. 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 Eight Types of Audits
Recovery time objective
Sampling Risk
8. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
Overall audit risk
Prblem Management
Application Layer protocols
9. 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.
ISO 20000 Standard:
Business Realization
Elements of the COSO pyramid
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
10. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.
Control Risk
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
Advantages of outsourcing
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
11. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.
Incident Management
Database primary key
Reduced sign-on
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
12. 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)
IT Service Management
Power system controls
Information systems access
Entire password for an encryption key
13. (1.) Access controls (2.) Encryption (3.) Audit logging
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Employees with excessive privileges
Primary security features of relational databases
IT Services Financial Management
14. Guide program execution through organization of resources and development of clear project objectives.
objective and unbiased
Project Management Strategies
Project change request
OSI: Network Layer
15. 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.
OSI: Transport Layer
Precision means
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
Inform the auditee
16. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.
OSI: Network Layer
A Sample Mean
An Integrated Audit
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
17. (1.) General (2.) Application
Recovery time objective
CPU
Sampling
Main types of Controls
18. An audit of an IS department's operations and systems.
Tolerable Error Rate
Risk Management
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
An IS audit
19. An auditor has discovered several errors in user account management: many terminated employees' computer accounts are still active. The best course of action - To improve the _________________ to reduce the number of exceptions. For a time - the proc
Information systems access
Application Controls
The Business Process Life Cycle
Employee termination process
20. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.
The availability of IT systems
Sampling
Attribute Sampling
Sampling Risk
21. 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.
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
More difficult to perform
A Financial Audit
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
22. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration
List of systems examined
Hash
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
Sample Standard Deviation
23. To ensure that input values are within established ranges - of the correct character types - and free of harmful contents.
Input validation checking
Recovery time objective
Grid Computing
Compliance Testing
24. The process to ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of all changes.
Primary security features of relational databases
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Stay current with technology
The availability of IT systems
25. Focuses on: post-event recovery and restoration of services
Disaster Recovery
Statistical Sampling
WAN Protocols
Frameworks
26. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
The Business Process Life Cycle
Foreign Key
Sampling
27. 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
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
28. 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.
IT Services Financial Management
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Testing activities
Foreign Key
29. An auditor has discovered that several administrators in an application share an administrative account. The auditor should recommend that - Several __________________ should be used. This will enforce accountability for each administrator's actions.
Separate administrative accounts
Incident Management
Disaster Recovery
List of systems examined
30. 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.
Formal waterfall
Audit Methodologies
The Requirements
Resource details
31. The set of activities that is concerned with the ability of the organization to continue to provide services - primarily in the event that a natural or man made disaster has occurred.
Release management
Background checks performed
Service Continuity Management
Organizational culture and maturity
32. To review and approve proposed changes to systems and infrastructure. This helps to reduce the risk of unintended events and unplanned downtime.
Application Layer protocols
Overall audit risk
A Compliance audit
Change management
33. (1.) Feasibility (2.) Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation
Blade Computer Architecture
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
Stop-or-go Sampling
The first step in a business impact analysis
34. An audit of operational efficiency.
Critical Path Methodology
An Administrative
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
35. 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
Substantive Testing
Registers
Inherent Risk
36. 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.
Business Realization
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
37. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.
A Cold Site
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Reduced sign-on
38. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance
Options for Risk Treatment
Employees with excessive privileges
Notify the Audit Committee
less than 24 hours
39. 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
Business Realization
OSI Layer 7: Application
List of systems examined
The Software Program Library
40. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)
Hash
Detection Risk
Application Controls
Control Unit
41. The purpose of an auditor doing interviews - To observe personnel to better understand their discipline - as well as ______________.
Attribute Sampling
Audit Methodologies
Organizational culture and maturity
Blade Computer Architecture
42. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified
OSI Layer 5: Session
Testing activities
Employees with excessive privileges
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
43. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Framework (3.) Reporting to External Parties (4.) Evaluation Tools
Stratified Sampling
Statement of Impact
Volumes of COSO framework
Disaster Recovery
44. (1.) Feasibility Study (2.) Definition of Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation phase
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
A Financial Audit
Six steps of the Release Management process
SDLC Phases
45. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.
Audit Methodologies
Network Layer Protocols
Information security policy
IT Service Management
46. Information is arranged in frames and transported across the medium. Collision detection. Checksum verification of delivery.
IT Strategy
Database primary key
Employees with excessive privileges
OSI: Data Link Layer
47. (1.) IP (2.) ICMP (3.) RRC (Radio Resource Control) (4.) AppleTalk
Control Unit
Capability Maturity Model
Network Layer Protocols
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
48. Deliver messages from one station to another on the same network or on different networks. Messaging at this layer is not guaranteed.
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
Service Level Management
Dimensions of the COSO cube
TCP/IP Internet Layer
49. The memory locations in the CPU where arithmetic values are stored.
Attribute Sampling
Three Types of Controls
Registers
Notify the Audit Committee
50. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
OSI: Transport Layer
Control Risk
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