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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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1. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning
Sampling Risk
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
A Forensic Audit
Geographic location
2. ____________________ 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
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Critical Path Methodology
Separate administrative accounts
Geographic location
3. Focuses on: maintaining service availability with the least disruption to standard operating parameters during an event
Network Layer Protocols
IT executives and the Board of Directors
Business Continuity
Attribute Sampling
4. Who is responsible for imposing an IT governance model encompassing IT strategy - information security - and formal enterprise architectural mandates?
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
A Compliance audit
Service Continuity Management
IT executives and the Board of Directors
5. 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.
A Virtual Server
A Financial Audit
WAN Protocols
Database primary key
6. 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.
Referential Integrity
TCP/IP Internet Layer
Sampling Risk
Critical Path Methodology
7. 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
A Sample Mean
Cloud computing
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
8. Delivery of packets from one station to another - on the same network or on different networks.
Criticality analysis
PERT Diagram?
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
Emergency Changes
9. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery
Precision means
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
OSI: Transport Layer
10. 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
A Virtual Server
Frameworks
Information systems access
Employees with excessive privileges
11. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.
Vulnerability in the organization's PBX
OSI Layer 7: Application
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
Categories of risk treatment
12. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Structural fires and transportation accidents
An Administrative
13. 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
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
Blade Computer Architecture
OSI: Transport Layer
14. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
Transport Layer Protocols
Project change request
Structural fires and transportation accidents
15. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.
A Virtual Server
OSI Layer 7: Application
Examples of IT General Controls
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
16. A field in a record in one table that can reference a primary key in another table that can reference a primary key in another table.
Testing activities
Sampling Risk
Audit Methodologies
Foreign Key
17. Framework for auditing and measuring IT Service Management Processes.
ISO 20000 Standard:
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
BCP Plans
A Virtual Server
18. A software developer has informed the project manager that a portion of the application development is going to take five additional days to complete. The project manager make a __________________ to document the reason for the change.
Project change request
Server cluster
Detection Risk
A Server Cluster
19. Guide program execution through organization of resources and development of clear project objectives.
Project Management Strategies
IT Service Management
Power system controls
Hash
20. n audit strategy and plans that include: (1.) Scope (2.) Objectives (3.) Resources (4.) Procedures used to evaluation controls and processes
The audit program
Tolerable Error Rate
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
Criticality analysis
21. 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.
The two Categories of Controls
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
Business Continuity
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
22. 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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23. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems
Data Link Layer Standards
Three Types of Controls
objective and unbiased
The first step in a business impact analysis
24. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices
BCP Plans
Inform the auditee
Controls
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
25. During an audit - the auditor should obtain 6 types of documents - (1.) Org charts (2.) ___________ (3.) third-party contracts (4.) policies and procedures (5.) standards (6.) system documentation
Insourcing
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
Expected Error Rate
Department Charters
26. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act
objective and unbiased
Input validation checking
Deming Cycle
Gantt Chart
27. To review and approve proposed changes to systems and infrastructure. This helps to reduce the risk of unintended events and unplanned downtime.
Business Realization
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
Blade Computer Architecture
Change management
28. Outsourcing is an opportunity for the organization to focus on core competencies. When an organization oursources a business function - it no longer needs to be concerned about training employees in that function. Outsources does not always reduce co
Deming Cycle
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
An Administrative
Advantages of outsourcing
29. 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
Sampling Risk
The Eight Types of Audits
Database primary key
30. An audit of operational efficiency.
IT Strategy
An Administrative
Input validation checking
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
31. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample
BCP Plans
Sample Standard Deviation
Prblem Management
Disaster Recovery
32. (1.) Feasibility Study (2.) Definition of Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation phase
Elements of the COBIT Framework
SDLC Phases
Resource details
TCP/IP Internet Layer
33. To determine effectiveness of a disaster recovery program - an IT auditor should examine _____________.
Documentation and interview personnel
Discovery Sampling
A Sample Mean
Employee termination process
34. To communication security policies - procedures - and other security-related information to an organization's employees.
Business Realization
Volumes of COSO framework
Security Awareness program
ISO 20000 Standard:
35. The memory locations in the CPU where arithmetic values are stored.
Registers
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Examples of Application Controls
36. The means by which management establishes and measures processes by which organizational objectives are achieved
Stay current with technology
Blade Computer Architecture
Statistical Sampling
Controls
37. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine the numeric total of a specific attribute from the entire population.
Information systems access
Variable Sampling
Statistical Sampling
Geographic location
38. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified
TCP/IP Internet Layer
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
Compliance Testing
Gantt Chart
39. An audit that is performed in support of an anticipated or active legal proceeding.
Stratified Sampling
A Forensic Audit
Assess the maturity of its business processes
CPU
40. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
An Integrated Audit
PERT Diagram?
Options for Risk Treatment
41. 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
Cloud computing
OSI Layer 5: Session
Information security policy
Six steps of the Release Management process
42. (1.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas
The first step in a business impact analysis
Dimensions of the COSO cube
Service Level Management
Primary security features of relational databases
43. Subjective sampling is used when the auditor wants to _________________________.
Employee termination process
A Service Provider audit
Cloud computing
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
44. A collection of two or more servers that is designed to appear as a single server.
Emergency Changes
Reduced sign-on
Server cluster
Transport Layer Protocols
45. What type of testing is performed to determine if control procedures have proper design and are operating properly?
Critical Path Methodology
Data Link Layer Standards
Compliance Testing
Substantive Testing
46. 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
BCP Plans
Background checks performed
Antivirus software on the email servers
Sampling Risk
47. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality
Criticality analysis
Structural fires and transportation accidents
A Sample Mean
Background checks performed
48. 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)
SDLC Phases
Organizational culture and maturity
Information systems access
Detection Risk
49. (1.) Reliable delivery (2.) Connection oriented (persistent connection) (3.) Order of Delivery (4.) Flow Control (transfer rate is throttled) (5.) Port Number
Criticality analysis
Detection Risk
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
Function Point Analysis
50. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
Volumes of COSO framework
Precision means
Audit Methodologies