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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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1. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.
Structural fires and transportation accidents
IT Services Financial Management
Antivirus software on the email servers
Categories of risk treatment
2. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
Judgmental sampling
less than 24 hours
The audit program
3. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
Business impact analysis
objective and unbiased
Information security policy
4. An audit of an IS department's operations and systems.
Application Layer protocols
An IS audit
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
Incident Management
5. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine how many samples possess a specific characteristic.
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
Attribute Sampling
Business Realization
The Steering Committee
6. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.
The availability of IT systems
Application Layer protocols
Information security policy
Variable Sampling
7. (1.) Feasibility (2.) Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation
Audit Methodologies
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
The availability of IT systems
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
8. (1.) MPLS (2.) SONET (3.) T-Carrier (4.) Frame Relay (5.) ISDN (6.) X.25
WAN Protocols
The availability of IT systems
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
Business impact analysis
9. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.
Six steps of the Release Management process
A Sample Mean
less than 24 hours
Department Charters
10. 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
Sample Standard Deviation
The Steering Committee
Sampling Risk
Emergency Changes
11. 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.
Variable Sampling
Testing activities
Tolerable Error Rate
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
12. 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.
Input validation checking
OSI: Transport Layer
Audit logging
A Financial Audit
13. 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
Release management
Employees with excessive privileges
Prblem Management
OSI: Transport Layer
14. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance
Recovery time objective
Categories of risk treatment
Formal waterfall
Cloud computing
15. The risk that a material error exists that will not be prevented or detected by the organization's control framework - The possibility that a process or procedure will be unable to prevent or deter serious errors and wrongdoing.
Control Risk
Stop-or-go Sampling
OSI: Transport Layer
Statistical Sampling
16. An estimate that expresses the percent of errors or exceptions that may exist in an entire population
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
Split custody
Expected Error Rate
A Problem
17. 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 ________.
The BCP process
The availability of IT systems
Attribute Sampling
less than 24 hours
18. Consists of 11 distinct activities: (1.) Service Desk (2.) Incident Management (3.) Problem Management (4.) Change Management (5.) Configuration Management (6.) Release Management (7.) Service-level Management (8.) Financial Management (9.) Capacity
IT Service Management
Cloud computing
less than 24 hours
Sampling
19. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.
Buffers
OSI Layer 7: Application
A Service Provider audit
Resource details
20. What type of testing is performed to determine if control procedures have proper design and are operating properly?
Compliance Testing
Attribute Sampling
OSI Layer 5: Session
Overall audit risk
21. Support the functioning of the application controls
General Controls
The Business Process Life Cycle
Elements of the COSO pyramid
Statement of Impact
22. The party that performs strategic planning - addresses near-term and long-term requirements aligning business objectives - and technology strategies.
less than 24 hours
Input validation checking
Controls
The Steering Committee
23. (1.) Developers (2.) Architects (3.) Analysts (4.) Users
The audit program
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
Information systems access
Stop-or-go Sampling
24. (1.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication
More difficult to perform
Advantages of outsourcing
Insourcing
Elements of the COSO pyramid
25. The main hardware component of a computer system - which executes instructions in computer programs.
Change management
Primary security features of relational databases
SDLC Phases
CPU
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.
Variable Sampling
Stop-or-go Sampling
Split custody
Separate administrative accounts
27. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery
PERT Diagram?
OSI: Transport Layer
Tolerable Error Rate
Dimensions of the COSO cube
28. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)
Criticality analysis
Audit Methodologies
Examples of Application Controls
Control Unit
29. (1.) Reliable delivery (2.) Connection oriented (persistent connection) (3.) Order of Delivery (4.) Flow Control (transfer rate is throttled) (5.) Port Number
The Release process
Server cluster
Precision means
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
30. 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
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
Geographic location
Substantive Testing
Insourcing
31. An audit that is performed in support of an anticipated or active legal proceeding.
A Forensic Audit
Options for Risk Treatment
The Steering Committee
The BCP process
32. Gantt: used to display ______________.
Resource details
WAN Protocols
Audit Methodologies
The Software Program Library
33. 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
Advantages of outsourcing
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
IT Strategy
Elements of the COBIT Framework
34. An organization has discovered that some of its employees have criminal records. The best course of action for the organization to take - The organization should have ___________________ on all of its existing employees and also begin instituting bac
The Eight Types of Audits
Background checks performed
Critical Path Methodology
Judgmental sampling
35. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.
Critical Path Methodology
OSI: Data Link Layer
Split custody
OSI Layer 5: Session
36. Framework for auditing and measuring IT Service Management Processes.
ISO 20000 Standard:
IT Services Financial Management
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
Structural fires and transportation accidents
37. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.
TCP/IP Network Model
Gantt Chart
PERT Diagram?
ISO 20000 Standard:
38. 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.
TCP/IP Network Model
Volumes of COSO framework
Referential Integrity
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
39. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.
Incident Management
IT Service Management
An Operational Audit
Disaster Recovery
40. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.
Compliance Testing
A Server Cluster
Current and most up-to-date
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
41. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.
TCP/IP Transport Layer
Emergency Changes
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
Registers
42. A representation of how closely a sample represents an entire population.
OSI: Physical Layer
Precision means
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
Registers
43. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
A Compliance audit
Options for Risk Treatment
Release management
44. 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
Prblem Management
Incident Management
Attribute Sampling
45. The portion of IT management that tracks the financial value of IT services that support organizational objectives. It includes 4 activities: (1.) Budgeting (2.) Capital Investment (3.) Expense Management (4.) Project accounting and project ROI (Ret
Current and most up-to-date
Reduced sign-on
less than 24 hours
IT Services Financial Management
46. Used to schedule and sequence activities in a waterfall-type representation. Planned activities are shown flowing downward to completion. More simplistic than a PERT Diagram.
CPU
Precision means
Gantt Chart
Registers
47. A sampling technique where at least one exception is sought in a population
Vulnerability in the organization's PBX
Discovery Sampling
More difficult to perform
Entire password for an encryption key
48. 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
Buffers
A Service Provider audit
Three Types of Controls
Vulnerability in the organization's PBX
49. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment
Advantages of outsourcing
Six steps of the Release Management process
Department Charters
ISO 20000 Standard:
50. To ensure that input values are within established ranges - of the correct character types - and free of harmful contents.
Input validation checking
OSI Layer 5: Session
Three Types of Controls
Database primary key