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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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1. Should include 4 steps: (1.) Emergency Approval (2.) Implementation (3.) Verification (4.) Review
A Virtual Server
Emergency Changes
Antivirus software on the email servers
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
2. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
Sampling Risk
Hash
Separate administrative accounts
3. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.
Sample Standard Deviation
Transport Layer Protocols
OSI: Network Layer
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
4. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.
Three Types of Controls
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
TCP/IP Network Model
5. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
Gantt Chart
OSI Layer 7: Application
Business impact analysis
6. (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
Separate administrative accounts
A Service Provider audit
The BCP process
Options for Risk Treatment
7. To measure organizational performance and effectiveness against strategic goals.
Balanced Scorecard
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
WAN Protocols
Configuration Management
8. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP
Tolerable Error Rate
Transport Layer Protocols
Precision means
Structural fires and transportation accidents
9. An active - instance of a server operating system running on a machine that is designed to house two or more such virtual servers.
A Virtual Server
A Compliance audit
Cloud computing
OSI: Network Layer
10. 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.
Disaster Recovery
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
Stratified Sampling
Resource details
11. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review
Split custody
Formal waterfall
Expected Error Rate
Employees with excessive privileges
12. To ensure that input values are within established ranges - of the correct character types - and free of harmful contents.
IT Strategy
Input validation checking
Disaster Recovery
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
13. 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 _________________.
Entire password for an encryption key
TCP/IP Network Model
Buffers
Documentation and interview personnel
14. 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)
Information systems access
The Release process
Control Risk
Controls
15. 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
Application Controls
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
TCP/IP Transport Layer
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
16. An estimate that expresses the percent of errors or exceptions that may exist in an entire population
Expected Error Rate
Examples of IT General Controls
Business Realization
More difficult to perform
17. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality
OSI: Data Link Layer
Buffers
Criticality analysis
Inform the auditee
18. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time
Statement of Impact
Blade Computer Architecture
Controls
Entire password for an encryption key
19. Aids in the coordinating of business processes using a sequence of three events -(1.) Business process creation (2.) Implementation (3.) Maintenance 3a. Benchmarking: Facilitates continuous improvement within the BPLC
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
Prblem Management
The Business Process Life Cycle
An Operational Audit
20. 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.
WAN Protocols
Frameworks
The first step in a business impact analysis
A Financial Audit
21. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
TCP/IP Link Layer
The first step in a business impact analysis
Project Management Strategies
22. 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 ________.
Service Continuity Management
objective and unbiased
Examples of IT General Controls
less than 24 hours
23. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration
Statement of Impact
Discovery Sampling
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
Attribute Sampling
24. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices
Blade Computer Architecture
Compliance Testing
BCP Plans
Statement of Impact
25. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified
IT Service Management
An Administrative
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
A Financial Audit
26. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.
Release management
Elements of the COBIT Framework
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
Variable Sampling
27. In Release Management - _________________ means that each step of the release process undergoes formal review and approval before the next step is allowed to begin.
A gate process
Advantages of outsourcing
OSI: Physical Layer
Power system controls
28. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.
Confidence coefficient
Deming Cycle
Emergency Changes
Network Layer Protocols
29. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.
OSI Layer 5: Session
Substantive Testing
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
IT executives and the Board of Directors
30. A sampling technique where at least one exception is sought in a population
Entire password for an encryption key
Discovery Sampling
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
The two Categories of Controls
31. The party that performs strategic planning - addresses near-term and long-term requirements aligning business objectives - and technology strategies.
Server cluster
Elements of the COSO pyramid
The Steering Committee
Structural fires and transportation accidents
32. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
Security Awareness program
Sampling Risk
Entire password for an encryption key
33. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)
Incident Management
IT Services Financial Management
BCP Plans
Control Unit
34. 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.
TCP/IP Network Model
Split custody
The availability of IT systems
Business Realization
35. (1.) Reliable delivery (2.) Connection oriented (persistent connection) (3.) Order of Delivery (4.) Flow Control (transfer rate is throttled) (5.) Port Number
Entire password for an encryption key
OSI: Transport Layer
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
Business Realization
36. 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.
37. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.
Controls
Gantt Chart
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
Prblem Management
38. (1.) Access controls (2.) Encryption (3.) Audit logging
Application Layer protocols
Primary security features of relational databases
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
Stay current with technology
39. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act
Deming Cycle
A Compliance audit
Detection Risk
OSI: Data Link Layer
40. Any event which is not part of the standard operation of service and which causes or may cause an interruption to or reduction in quality of that service. Includes THREE incident types: (1.) Service Outage (2.) Service Slowdown (3.) Software Bug
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
Data Link Layer Standards
Variable Sampling
Incident Management
41. Guide program execution through organization of resources and development of clear project objectives.
Project Management Strategies
Business Realization
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
Audit logging
42. Subjective sampling is used when the auditor wants to _________________________.
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
An Operational Audit
Business Realization
The Business Process Life Cycle
43. The highest number of errors that can exist without a result being materially misstated.
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
SDLC Phases
Tolerable Error Rate
44. 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
Control Risk
Input validation checking
Data Link Layer Standards
OSI Layer 5: Session
45. 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.
Primary security features of relational databases
Stop-or-go Sampling
Entire password for an encryption key
Audit Methodologies
46. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.
Buffers
PERT Diagram?
Elements of the COBIT Framework
The Software Program Library
47. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.
IT Strategy
Stratified Sampling
Application Layer protocols
BCP Plans
48. To communication security policies - procedures - and other security-related information to an organization's employees.
Testing activities
Volumes of COSO framework
Security Awareness program
SDLC Phases
49. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.
A Compliance audit
The Requirements
Current and most up-to-date
WAN Protocols
50. Who is responsible for imposing an IT governance model encompassing IT strategy - information security - and formal enterprise architectural mandates?
Service Level Management
Split custody
OSI Layer 5: Session
IT executives and the Board of Directors