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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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1. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.
Recovery time objective
The BCP process
Detection Risk
OSI: Physical Layer
2. Framework for auditing and measuring IT Service Management Processes.
SDLC Phases
ISO 20000 Standard:
An IS audit
Frameworks
3. A Fire sprinkler system has water in its pipes - and sprinkler heads emit water only if the ambient temperature reaches 220 deg. F. This is a ________________. The system is charged with water and will discharge water out of any sprinkler head whose
Disaster Recovery
Business Realization
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
4. (1.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication
Elements of the COSO pyramid
Release management
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
Service Level Management
5. The party that performs strategic planning - addresses near-term and long-term requirements aligning business objectives - and technology strategies.
The Steering Committee
An Administrative
A Compliance audit
Business Realization
6. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified
The Eight Types of Audits
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
Database primary key
7. 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.
The first step in a business impact analysis
Referential Integrity
Network Layer Protocols
Power system controls
8. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.
Emergency Changes
The Software Program Library
Split custody
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
9. A CMM helps an organization to _______________ - which is an important first step to any large-scale process improvement effort.
Assess the maturity of its business processes
Attribute Sampling
Gantt Chart
Detection Risk
10. 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.
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
The Requirements
Testing activities
11. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.
Confidence coefficient
Business impact analysis
Variable Sampling
The Eight Types of Audits
12. (1.) Physical (2.) Technical (4.) Administrative
Inherent Risk
Elements of the COSO pyramid
Vulnerability in the organization's PBX
Three Types of Controls
13. An IS auditor is auditing the change management process for a financial application. The auditor has two primary pieces of evidence: change logs and a written analysis of the change logs performed by a business analyst. The change log is best because
Stay current with technology
Compliance Testing
Background checks performed
objective and unbiased
14. (1.) Developers (2.) Architects (3.) Analysts (4.) Users
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
Business Realization
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
15. To review and approve proposed changes to systems and infrastructure. This helps to reduce the risk of unintended events and unplanned downtime.
The Business Process Life Cycle
Service Continuity Management
Change management
SDLC Phases
16. 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.
Main types of Controls
Critical Path Methodology
Examples of IT General Controls
IT Services Financial Management
17. The annual expected loss to an asset. It is calculated as the single loss expectancy (SLE) X the annualized rate of occurrence (ARO.)
Hash
Business Continuity
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
18. A sampling technique where items are chosen at random; each item has a statistically equal probability of being chosen.
Statistical Sampling
OSI Layer 7: Application
Expected Error Rate
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
19. External auditors are needed under these conditions: (1.) When the organization ________________________. (2.) Some regulations and standards require external - independent auditors
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
OSI: Data Link Layer
Main types of Controls
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
20. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.
Prblem Management
Gantt Chart
Business Realization
A Financial Audit
21. A condition that is the result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms e.g. A web application is displaying information incorrectly and many users have contacted the IT service desk.
A Problem
Blade Computer Architecture
Employees with excessive privileges
Geographic location
22. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
Elements of the COSO pyramid
Examples of IT General Controls
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
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
Buffers
Precision means
Current and most up-to-date
24. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.
Hash
Change management
Testing activities
TCP/IP Link Layer
25. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.
IT executives and the Board of Directors
A Sample Mean
Dimensions of the COSO cube
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
26. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.
Emergency Changes
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
Blade Computer Architecture
Geographic location
27. A facility that is used to store and manage access to an organization's application source and object code. It consists of 5 parts: (1.) Access and authorization controls (2.) Program checkout (3.) Program Check-in (4.) Version Control (5.) Code Ana
Blade Computer Architecture
Stop-or-go Sampling
The Software Program Library
Critical Path Methodology
28. 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
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Geographic location
Testing activities
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
29. Deliver messages from one station to another on the same network or on different networks. Messaging at this layer is not guaranteed.
less than 24 hours
The Release process
Disaster Recovery
TCP/IP Internet Layer
30. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.
Control Risk
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
A Problem
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
31. One of a database table's fields - whose value is unique.
Split custody
Database primary key
Department Charters
Elements of the COBIT Framework
32. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - as the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient.
Current and most up-to-date
Sampling Risk
Examples of IT General Controls
OSI Layer 7: Application
33. 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.
OSI: Transport Layer
Hash
Cloud computing
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
34. A database administrator has been asked to configure a database management system so that it records all changes made by users - The DBA should implement ___________. This will cause the database to record every change that is made to it.
Function Point Analysis
Buffers
Audit logging
Audit Methodologies
35. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.
The Software Program Library
Change management
An Operational Audit
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
36. 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.)
The Release process
IT Strategy
Database primary key
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
37. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
TCP/IP Network Model
OSI: Transport Layer
38. 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 Business Process Life Cycle
BCP Plans
Gantt Chart
Sample Standard Deviation
39. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine the numeric total of a specific attribute from the entire population.
More difficult to perform
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
Input validation checking
Variable Sampling
40. (1.) Access controls (2.) Encryption (3.) Audit logging
Balanced Scorecard
SDLC Phases
Assess the maturity of its business processes
Primary security features of relational databases
41. 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.
objective and unbiased
Three Types of Controls
Statistical Sampling
Separate administrative accounts
42. ____________________ 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
The Steering Committee
Insourcing
Geographic location
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
43. 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
A gate process
Elements of the COBIT Framework
Inherent Risk
Incident Management
44. (1.) Authentication (2.) Authorization (3.) Change Management (4.) Completeness checks (5.) Validation checks (6.) Input controls (7.) Output controls (8.) Problem management (9.) Identification/access controls
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
less than 24 hours
Examples of Application Controls
Controls
45. An estimate that expresses the percent of errors or exceptions that may exist in an entire population
Expected Error Rate
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
Background checks performed
46. Used to estimate the effort required to develop a software program.
Function Point Analysis
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
IT executives and the Board of Directors
TCP/IP Link Layer
47. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
Resource details
Inherent Risk
A Problem
48. What type of testing is performed to verify the accuracy and integrity of transactions as they flow through a system?
TCP/IP Transport Layer
Antivirus software on the email servers
Server cluster
Substantive Testing
49. To measure organizational performance and effectiveness against strategic goals.
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
Balanced Scorecard
Application Layer protocols
Employees with excessive privileges
50. 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
Vulnerability in the organization's PBX
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
Reduced sign-on
The Eight Types of Audits
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