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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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1. Focuses on: maintaining service availability with the least disruption to standard operating parameters during an event
IT Strategy
The first step in a business impact analysis
A Financial Audit
Business Continuity
2. 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.
Audit Methodologies
Capability Maturity Model
Inform the auditee
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
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
Tolerable Error Rate
Split custody
Data Link Layer Standards
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
4. The maximum period of downtime for a process or application
BCP Plans
A Sample Mean
Volumes of COSO framework
Recovery time objective
5. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.
An Administrative
Antivirus software on the email servers
Project Management Strategies
A Sample Mean
6. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.
A gate process
Business impact analysis
The availability of IT systems
TCP/IP Internet Layer
7. (1.) Access controls (2.) Encryption (3.) Audit logging
Sample Standard Deviation
Statement of Impact
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
Primary security features of relational databases
8. 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 Application Controls
Variable Sampling
Testing activities
A Financial Audit
9. 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
Application Layer protocols
Sampling Risk
Employees with excessive privileges
Overall audit risk
10. 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
Security Awareness program
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
Tolerable Error Rate
An Operational Audit
11. The process to ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of all changes.
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Attribute Sampling
The Software Program Library
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
12. 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.
TCP/IP Transport Layer
Gantt Chart
An IS audit
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
13. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine how many samples possess a specific characteristic.
Substantive Testing
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
Attribute Sampling
Network Layer Protocols
14. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.
Configuration Management
Inherent Risk
Information security policy
Server cluster
15. An audit of operational efficiency.
The audit program
Gantt Chart
Antivirus software on the email servers
An Administrative
16. 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
Structural fires and transportation accidents
OSI: Network Layer
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
17. 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.
List of systems examined
A Server Cluster
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
Confidence coefficient
18. Collections of Controls that work together to achieve an entire range of an organization's objectives.
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
Control Unit
Frameworks
Business Continuity
19. (1.) Developers (2.) Architects (3.) Analysts (4.) Users
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
Capability Maturity Model
20. 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
Judgmental sampling
Separate administrative accounts
TCP/IP Network Model
Advantages of outsourcing
21. IS auditors can _____________________ through the following means: (1.) training courses (2.) webinars (3.) ISACA chapter training events (4.) Industry conferences
Stay current with technology
Resource details
Judgmental sampling
TCP/IP Link Layer
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. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment
SDLC Phases
General Controls
Stop-or-go Sampling
Six steps of the Release Management process
24. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review
Overall audit risk
Prblem Management
Formal waterfall
A Problem
25. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine the numeric total of a specific attribute from the entire population.
Gantt Chart
Grid Computing
The Requirements
Variable Sampling
26. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.
Business impact analysis
Stop-or-go Sampling
Tolerable Error Rate
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
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
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
The Software Program Library
TCP/IP Network Model
28. Focuses on: post-event recovery and restoration of services
A Service Provider audit
Detection Risk
Disaster Recovery
Compliance Testing
29. Delivery of packets from one station to another - on the same network or on different networks.
Risk Management
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Compliance Testing
30. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.
Server cluster
Buffers
Volumes of COSO framework
TCP/IP Link Layer
31. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.
TCP/IP Link Layer
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
The first step in a business impact analysis
Assess the maturity of its business processes
32. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
IT Services Financial Management
OSI: Transport Layer
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
33. 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.
Referential Integrity
PERT Diagram?
Release management
Stratified Sampling
34. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample
TCP/IP Transport Layer
The Business Process Life Cycle
Sample Standard Deviation
The BCP process
35. An active - instance of a server operating system running on a machine that is designed to house two or more such virtual servers.
Application Controls
A Forensic Audit
A Virtual Server
Deming Cycle
36. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.
Stop-or-go Sampling
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Capability Maturity Model
TCP/IP Network Model
37. (1.) Reliable delivery (2.) Connection oriented (persistent connection) (3.) Order of Delivery (4.) Flow Control (transfer rate is throttled) (5.) Port Number
Advantages of outsourcing
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
IT Service Management
Frameworks
38. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance
Disaster Recovery
Options for Risk Treatment
Information security policy
SDLC Phases
39. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Framework (3.) Reporting to External Parties (4.) Evaluation Tools
Cloud computing
Foreign Key
Volumes of COSO framework
A Server Cluster
40. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records
Categories of risk treatment
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
Referential Integrity
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
41. 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.
An Operational Audit
Critical Path Methodology
Control Risk
The BCP process
42. Define 10 elements of an Audit - (1.) Subject of audit (2.) Audit Objective (3.) Type of audit (4.) Audit scope (5.) Pre-audit planning (6.) Audit procedures (7.) Communication plan (8.) Report Preparation (9.) Wrap-up (10.) Post-audit follow-up
Audit Methodologies
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Database primary key
Formal waterfall
43. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.
Main types of Controls
Primary security features of relational databases
Release management
Resource details
44. The main hardware component of a computer system - which executes instructions in computer programs.
CPU
Information security policy
Registers
Server cluster
45. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components
Prblem Management
Compliance Testing
SDLC Phases
The availability of IT systems
46. One of a database table's fields - whose value is unique.
Database primary key
PERT Diagram?
Control Risk
Antivirus software on the email servers
47. The party that performs strategic planning - addresses near-term and long-term requirements aligning business objectives - and technology strategies.
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
Inherent Risk
The Steering Committee
Database primary key
48. 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
Notify the Audit Committee
Formal waterfall
Testing activities
49. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.
Business Realization
Current and most up-to-date
Sampling Risk
Business impact analysis
50. Subjective sampling is used when the auditor wants to _________________________.
Information systems access
Precision means
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
An Integrated Audit