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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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1. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider
The Eight Types of Audits
Geographic location
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
More difficult to perform
2. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual
Sampling Risk
Organizational culture and maturity
Employee termination process
The two Categories of Controls
3. One of a database table's fields - whose value is unique.
TCP/IP Link Layer
Business impact analysis
Database primary key
Disaster Recovery
4. An audit of a third-party organization that provides services to other organizations.
A Service Provider audit
Change management
The audit program
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
5. Gantt: used to display ______________.
Employee termination process
Capability Maturity Model
Referential Integrity
Resource details
6. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.
Sampling Risk
A Compliance audit
A gate process
Network Layer Protocols
7. 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.
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
Risk Management
Business impact analysis
Hash
8. (1.) LAN protocols (2.) 80 (2.) 11 MAC/LLC (WiFi) (3.) Common Carrier packet networks (4.) ARP (5.) PPP and SLIP (6.) Tunneling - PPTP - L2TP
Data Link Layer Standards
Capability Maturity Model
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
9. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.
Business Continuity
Service Level Management
Background checks performed
Business impact analysis
10. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
Prblem Management
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
11. 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
TCP/IP Transport Layer
Substantive Testing
The Eight Types of Audits
Employees with excessive privileges
12. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.
The two Categories of Controls
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Stop-or-go Sampling
PERT Diagram?
13. A collection of two or more servers that is designed to appear as a single server.
Server cluster
Categories of risk treatment
An Administrative
Capability Maturity Model
14. The memory locations in the CPU where arithmetic values are stored.
Controls
Registers
Main types of Controls
Examples of IT General Controls
15. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.
Blade Computer Architecture
Cloud computing
less than 24 hours
OSI: Physical Layer
16. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.
The Requirements
Information systems access
Sampling
An IS audit
17. (1.) Feasibility (2.) Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
A Problem
Vulnerability in the organization's PBX
An Integrated Audit
18. Critical Path Methodology helps a project manager determine which activities are on a project's critical list - ________________________.
Formal waterfall
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
The audit program
Tolerable Error Rate
19. 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
Background checks performed
Stay current with technology
A Sample Mean
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
20. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.
Options for Risk Treatment
The first step in a business impact analysis
Categories of risk treatment
Judgmental sampling
21. Should include 4 steps: (1.) Emergency Approval (2.) Implementation (3.) Verification (4.) Review
WAN Protocols
Control Unit
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
Emergency Changes
22. 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.
BCP Plans
The first step in a business impact analysis
Incident Management
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
23. 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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24. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components
Expected Error Rate
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
The availability of IT systems
Background checks performed
25. A sampling technique where at least one exception is sought in a population
Department Charters
Discovery Sampling
TCP/IP Link Layer
Separate administrative accounts
26. 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
IT Services Financial Management
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
The audit program
27. 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
Notify the Audit Committee
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
Power system controls
OSI Layer 5: Session
28. 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.
objective and unbiased
Gantt Chart
Blade Computer Architecture
List of systems examined
29. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.
Blade Computer Architecture
Gantt Chart
A gate process
Recovery time objective
30. An audit that is performed in support of an anticipated or active legal proceeding.
A Forensic Audit
SDLC Phases
An Administrative
Application Controls
31. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.
The Requirements
Audit Methodologies
Power system controls
Release management
32. The process of recording the configuration of IT systems. Each configuration setting is known in ITSM parlance as a Configuration Item.
TCP/IP Transport Layer
Network Layer Protocols
Sample Standard Deviation
Configuration Management
33. An auditor has discovered several errors in user account management: many terminated employees' computer accounts are still active. The best course of action - To improve the _________________ to reduce the number of exceptions. For a time - the proc
Employee termination process
A Problem
Formal waterfall
WAN Protocols
34. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Framework (3.) Reporting to External Parties (4.) Evaluation Tools
IT executives and the Board of Directors
Volumes of COSO framework
Variable Sampling
Input validation checking
35. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.
Three Types of Controls
OSI: Transport Layer
Confidence coefficient
Audit logging
36. (1.) Reliable delivery (2.) Connection oriented (persistent connection) (3.) Order of Delivery (4.) Flow Control (transfer rate is throttled) (5.) Port Number
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
TCP/IP Transport Layer
IT Strategy
Assess the maturity of its business processes
37. (1.) Feasibility Study (2.) Definition of Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation phase
The audit program
IT Strategy
SDLC Phases
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
38. 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.)
Statement of Impact
The Release process
Confidence coefficient
Critical Path Methodology
39. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)
Recovery time objective
Control Unit
A Virtual Server
IT executives and the Board of Directors
40. 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.
Control Risk
CPU
A Server Cluster
Geographic location
41. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified
OSI Layer 5: Session
A Financial Audit
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
42. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.
Reduced sign-on
An Operational Audit
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
Cloud computing
43. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine the numeric total of a specific attribute from the entire population.
Formal waterfall
Variable Sampling
Categories of risk treatment
Notify the Audit Committee
44. 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
Sampling Risk
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
Stop-or-go Sampling
TCP/IP Link Layer
45. The 5 types of risks that are related to audits include: (1.) Control Risk (2.) Detection Risk (3.) Inherent risk (4.) _____________ (5.) Sampling risk
Elements of the COBIT Framework
Service Continuity Management
Foreign Key
Overall audit risk
46. 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.
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
Control Risk
Entire password for an encryption key
Stratified Sampling
47. The annual expected loss to an asset. It is calculated as the single loss expectancy (SLE) X the annualized rate of occurrence (ARO.)
An Operational Audit
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
48. 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
Service Level Management
More difficult to perform
Dimensions of the COSO cube
A Service Provider audit
49. (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
Data Link Layer Standards
Examples of Application Controls
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
Configuration Management
50. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.
A Server Cluster
Split custody
Foreign Key
Emergency Changes
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