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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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1. 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 _________________.
Tolerable Error Rate
The two Categories of Controls
Entire password for an encryption key
Discovery Sampling
2. 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.
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
The audit program
Statistical Sampling
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
3. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems
Foreign Key
Blade Computer Architecture
The first step in a business impact analysis
Deming Cycle
4. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
Six steps of the Release Management process
The first step in a business impact analysis
BCP Plans
5. 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?
Blade Computer Architecture
Options for Risk Treatment
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
Network Layer Protocols
6. 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
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
Sampling Risk
Notify the Audit Committee
Inform the auditee
7. (1.) General (2.) Application
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Registers
Main types of Controls
Overall audit risk
8. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.
A gate process
Audit logging
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
Confidence coefficient
9. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
Grid Computing
Separate administrative accounts
Current and most up-to-date
10. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.
A Service Provider audit
Precision means
A Sample Mean
Entire password for an encryption key
11. 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.
Service Continuity Management
Entire password for an encryption key
Background checks performed
Power system controls
12. The party that performs strategic planning - addresses near-term and long-term requirements aligning business objectives - and technology strategies.
Compliance Testing
Service Continuity Management
The Steering Committee
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
13. 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.
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14. The process to ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of all changes.
Service Continuity Management
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Employee termination process
Audit logging
15. 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 ________.
OSI: Network Layer
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
Separate administrative accounts
less than 24 hours
16. 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.
Examples of IT General Controls
Business Continuity
A Financial Audit
Stratified Sampling
17. Gantt: used to display ______________.
Reduced sign-on
A Cold Site
An Integrated Audit
Resource details
18. 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.
Statement of Impact
The Business Process Life Cycle
The Requirements
Transport Layer Protocols
19. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them
Documentation and interview personnel
Inherent Risk
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
Discovery Sampling
20. 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
More difficult to perform
CPU
Six steps of the Release Management process
21. 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 best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Testing activities
A Forensic Audit
22. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
Detection Risk
Vulnerability in the organization's PBX
23. 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
Entire password for an encryption key
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
Project change request
Buffers
24. 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.
Statement of Impact
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
Geographic location
Advantages of outsourcing
25. A collection of two or more servers that is designed to appear as a single server.
objective and unbiased
Server cluster
IT Strategy
Business Realization
26. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine the numeric total of a specific attribute from the entire population.
Reduced sign-on
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
An Operational Audit
Variable Sampling
27. Who is responsible for imposing an IT governance model encompassing IT strategy - information security - and formal enterprise architectural mandates?
IT executives and the Board of Directors
Change management
Critical Path Methodology
Application Layer protocols
28. (1.) Physical (2.) Technical (4.) Administrative
Entire password for an encryption key
The availability of IT systems
Three Types of Controls
Power system controls
29. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient
Change management
TCP/IP Transport Layer
Sampling Risk
The Requirements
30. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.
More difficult to perform
List of systems examined
OSI: Physical Layer
Network Layer Protocols
31. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
The BCP process
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
Criticality analysis
32. An organization has chosen to open a business office in another country where labor costs are lower and has hired workers to perform business functions there. - The organization is ___________ - while they may have opened the office in a foreign coun
Insourcing
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Inherent Risk
Organizational culture and maturity
33. To ensure that input values are within established ranges - of the correct character types - and free of harmful contents.
Input validation checking
Inform the auditee
The audit program
The two Categories of Controls
34. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.
Sample Standard Deviation
OSI: Transport Layer
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Controls
35. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.
Control Risk
Notify the Audit Committee
Judgmental sampling
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
36. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual
Examples of Application Controls
Expected Error Rate
Precision means
The two Categories of Controls
37. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.
Main types of Controls
An IS audit
Release management
OSI: Transport Layer
38. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning
Judgmental sampling
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
Frameworks
Change management
39. To review and approve proposed changes to systems and infrastructure. This helps to reduce the risk of unintended events and unplanned downtime.
ISO 20000 Standard:
Blade Computer Architecture
Change management
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
40. 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 Release process
A Server Cluster
Business Continuity
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
41. A sampling technique where at least one exception is sought in a population
Discovery Sampling
The first step in a business impact analysis
Statement of Impact
Criticality analysis
42. Deliver messages from one station to another on the same network or on different networks. Messaging at this layer is not guaranteed.
TCP/IP Internet Layer
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
Vulnerability in the organization's PBX
Sampling Risk
43. An audit of an IS department's operations and systems.
Six steps of the Release Management process
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
Project change request
An IS audit
44. An audit of operational efficiency.
A Cold Site
An Administrative
Function Point Analysis
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
45. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
Service Level Management
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
46. 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
Expected Error Rate
Employee termination process
Frameworks
Variable Sampling
47. An organization experiences frequent malware infections on end-user workstations that are received through email - despite the tact that workstations have anti-virus software. To reducing malware - Implementing ________________ will provide an effect
Antivirus software on the email servers
Organizational culture and maturity
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
OSI: Transport Layer
48. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality
Criticality analysis
Variable Sampling
Data Link Layer Standards
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
49. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.
Six steps of the Release Management process
Expected Error Rate
Main types of Controls
OSI: Network Layer
50. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
PERT Diagram?
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Hash