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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual
Assess the maturity of its business processes
The two Categories of Controls
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
The availability of IT systems
2. A CMM helps an organization to _______________ - which is an important first step to any large-scale process improvement effort.
Notify the Audit Committee
Sampling
Stop-or-go Sampling
Assess the maturity of its business processes
3. An IS auditor has discovered a high-risk exception during control testing. The best course of action for the IS auditor to take - The IS auditor should immediately ________________ when any high-risk situation is discovered.
Inform the auditee
Three Types of Controls
OSI: Transport Layer
objective and unbiased
4. 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
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
Categories of risk treatment
Employees with excessive privileges
OSI Layer 5: Session
5. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance
Data Link Layer Standards
A Sample Mean
Options for Risk Treatment
Categories of risk treatment
6. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.
IT executives and the Board of Directors
Gantt Chart
Confidence coefficient
Antivirus software on the email servers
7. Critical Path Methodology helps a project manager determine which activities are on a project's critical list - ________________________.
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
Database primary key
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
Security Awareness program
8. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
Control Unit
Geographic location
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
9. 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.
Transport Layer Protocols
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
Stratified Sampling
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
10. 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.
The availability of IT systems
Resource details
Service Continuity Management
ISO 20000 Standard:
11. In Release Management - _________________ means that each step of the release process undergoes formal review and approval before the next step is allowed to begin.
Critical Path Methodology
Incident Management
A gate process
Change management
12. The process to ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of all changes.
The Eight Types of Audits
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
TCP/IP Internet Layer
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
13. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality
Department Charters
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
Frameworks
Criticality analysis
14. Information is arranged in frames and transported across the medium. Collision detection. Checksum verification of delivery.
OSI: Data Link Layer
Statement of Impact
An IS audit
Stay current with technology
15. 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.
Audit logging
Main types of Controls
Change management
The Requirements
16. The memory locations in the CPU where arithmetic values are stored.
Stratified Sampling
TCP/IP Transport Layer
Registers
TCP/IP Link Layer
17. 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
Background checks performed
Critical Path Methodology
A Server Cluster
Department Charters
18. Delivery of packets from one station to another - on the same network or on different networks.
The Requirements
Resource details
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
Documentation and interview personnel
19. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.
Stratified Sampling
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Split custody
Project Management Strategies
20. 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
Foreign Key
Reduced sign-on
OSI: Transport Layer
Main types of Controls
21. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.
Variable Sampling
Emergency Changes
Release management
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
22. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified
A Sample Mean
Security Awareness program
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
An Integrated Audit
23. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration
Criticality analysis
A Compliance audit
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
Split custody
24. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.
Current and most up-to-date
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
Testing activities
More difficult to perform
25. 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 ________.
less than 24 hours
Elements of the COBIT Framework
Examples of Application Controls
Information systems access
26. Subjective sampling is used when the auditor wants to _________________________.
Criticality analysis
OSI Layer 7: Application
Server cluster
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
27. 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.)
A Compliance audit
The Release process
IT Service Management
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
28. An audit of operational efficiency.
Geographic location
More difficult to perform
An Administrative
General Controls
29. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.
Vulnerability in the organization's PBX
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
Server cluster
A Sample Mean
30. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records
The Release process
objective and unbiased
Stay current with technology
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
31. Handle application processing
Expected Error Rate
Separate administrative accounts
Deming Cycle
Application Controls
32. A collection of two or more servers that is designed to appear as a single server.
Server cluster
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
Dimensions of the COSO cube
Disaster Recovery
33. 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
A gate process
Antivirus software on the email servers
An Administrative
TCP/IP Network Model
34. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning
Database primary key
An Operational Audit
TCP/IP Link Layer
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
35. 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.
Documentation and interview personnel
IT Strategy
Gantt Chart
Employee termination process
36. (1.) Developers (2.) Architects (3.) Analysts (4.) Users
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
Statement of Impact
Registers
WAN Protocols
37. A quantitative risk analysis is __________________ because: It is difficult to get accurate figures on the frequency of specific threats. It is difficult to determine the probability that a threat will be realized. It is relatively easy to determine
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
ISO 20000 Standard:
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
More difficult to perform
38. 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.
Security Awareness program
Critical Path Methodology
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
Prblem Management
39. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.
Configuration Management
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
40. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices
Network Layer Protocols
Buffers
Audit logging
BCP Plans
41. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them
Inherent Risk
BCP Plans
A Sample Mean
Geographic location
42. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Framework (3.) Reporting to External Parties (4.) Evaluation Tools
Cloud computing
Judgmental sampling
Volumes of COSO framework
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
43. What activity involves the identification of potential risk and the appropriate response for each threat based on impact assessment using qualitative and/or quantitative measures for an enterprise-wide risk management strategy?
Risk Management
A gate process
Entire password for an encryption key
The Software Program Library
44. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.
Sampling
Disaster Recovery
Information security policy
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
45. 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.
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
Sampling
Stay current with technology
A Compliance audit
46. 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
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
Control Unit
Prblem Management
47. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.
IT Services Financial Management
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Expected Error Rate
Separate administrative accounts
48. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.
Confidence coefficient
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
The availability of IT systems
An Integrated Audit
49. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.
Categories of risk treatment
Precision means
Stratified Sampling
Blade Computer Architecture
50. Gantt: used to display ______________.
Input validation checking
IT Services Financial Management
Security Awareness program
Resource details