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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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1. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time
BCP Plans
Statement of Impact
Antivirus software on the email servers
The audit program
2. An IS auditor is auditing the change management process for a financial application. The auditor has two primary pieces of evidence: change logs and a written analysis of the change logs performed by a business analyst. The change log is best because
Employee termination process
The Software Program Library
objective and unbiased
Business impact analysis
3. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Framework (3.) Reporting to External Parties (4.) Evaluation Tools
Business Realization
Volumes of COSO framework
OSI: Network Layer
OSI: Physical Layer
4. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP
Transport Layer Protocols
Change management
Blade Computer Architecture
Disaster Recovery
5. (1.) Developers (2.) Architects (3.) Analysts (4.) Users
Discovery Sampling
objective and unbiased
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
Network Layer Protocols
6. An audit of an IS department's operations and systems.
An IS audit
Stratified Sampling
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
7. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Governance and control framework (3.) Control Objectives (4.) Management Guidelines (5.) Implementation Guide (6.) IT Assurance Guide
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
Elements of the COBIT Framework
Audit Methodologies
Geographic location
8. (1.) Develop a BC Policy (2.) Conduct BIA (3.) Perform critical analysis (4.) Establish recovery targets (5.) Develop recovery and continuity strategies and plans (6.) Test recovery and continuity plans and procedures Train personnel Maintain strateg
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
Transport Layer Protocols
The BCP process
9. 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
TCP/IP Network Model
Elements of the COSO pyramid
Insourcing
10. 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
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
Power system controls
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
11. What three elements allow validation of business practices against acceptable measures of regulatory compliance - performance - and standard operational guidelines.
Controls
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
Referential Integrity
An Integrated Audit
12. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components
Control Risk
Expected Error Rate
The availability of IT systems
A Problem
13. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance
Critical Path Methodology
The BCP process
Controls
Categories of risk treatment
14. Any event which is not part of the standard operation of service and which causes or may cause an interruption to or reduction in quality of that service. Includes THREE incident types: (1.) Service Outage (2.) Service Slowdown (3.) Software Bug
The availability of IT systems
An IS audit
Incident Management
Main types of Controls
15. What type of testing is performed to verify the accuracy and integrity of transactions as they flow through a system?
The Requirements
Stay current with technology
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
Substantive Testing
16. To review and approve proposed changes to systems and infrastructure. This helps to reduce the risk of unintended events and unplanned downtime.
Change management
Precision means
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
Attribute Sampling
17. Aids in the coordinating of business processes using a sequence of three events -(1.) Business process creation (2.) Implementation (3.) Maintenance 3a. Benchmarking: Facilitates continuous improvement within the BPLC
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
SDLC Phases
The Business Process Life Cycle
Server cluster
18. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application
Release management
TCP/IP Network Model
A Forensic Audit
The first step in a business impact analysis
19. 0. No process at all (1.) Process are ad hoc and disorganized (2.) Consistent processes (3.) Documented processes (4.) Measured and managed processes (5.) Processes are continuously improved
Discovery Sampling
Controls
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
The availability of IT systems
20. One of a database table's fields - whose value is unique.
Database primary key
Examples of Application Controls
Organizational culture and maturity
Referential Integrity
21. A dynamically scalable and usually virtualized computing environment that is provided as a service. Clout computing services may be rented or leased so that an organization can have a scalable application without the need for supporting hardware.
Volumes of COSO framework
Cloud computing
Security Awareness program
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
22. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample
Registers
Sample Standard Deviation
Inform the auditee
Transport Layer Protocols
23. The 5 types of risks that are related to audits include: (1.) Control Risk (2.) Detection Risk (3.) Inherent risk (4.) _____________ (5.) Sampling risk
TCP/IP Link Layer
Cloud computing
Categories of risk treatment
Overall audit risk
24. 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
Assess the maturity of its business processes
An IS audit
Background checks performed
Split custody
25. Support the functioning of the application controls
General Controls
TCP/IP Link Layer
Formal waterfall
Sampling
26. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment
Sample Standard Deviation
OSI: Physical Layer
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
Six steps of the Release Management process
27. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning
TCP/IP Transport Layer
Examples of IT General Controls
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
Antivirus software on the email servers
28. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
Substantive Testing
Blade Computer Architecture
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
29. The memory locations in the CPU where arithmetic values are stored.
Registers
ISO 20000 Standard:
Options for Risk Treatment
Primary security features of relational databases
30. 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.
Formal waterfall
General Controls
Power system controls
Project change request
31. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine how many samples possess a specific characteristic.
Attribute Sampling
Audit logging
Volumes of COSO framework
Inherent Risk
32. A sampling technique used to permit sampling to stop at the earliest possible time. This technique is used when the auditor feels that there is a low risk or low rate of exceptions in the population.
The Eight Types of Audits
Stop-or-go Sampling
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
33. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider
List of systems examined
Release management
OSI: Network Layer
The Eight Types of Audits
34. 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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35. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices
Statement of Impact
BCP Plans
Employees with excessive privileges
Buffers
36. Delivery of packets from one station to another - on the same network or on different networks.
Employee termination process
Documentation and interview personnel
A Sample Mean
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
37. The means by which management establishes and measures processes by which organizational objectives are achieved
The Software Program Library
Controls
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
Confidence coefficient
38. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
Project Management Strategies
Blade Computer Architecture
39. 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.
Expected Error Rate
Critical Path Methodology
Foreign Key
A Cold Site
40. 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)
A Forensic Audit
Information systems access
The audit program
The Business Process Life Cycle
41. IS auditors can _____________________ through the following means: (1.) training courses (2.) webinars (3.) ISACA chapter training events (4.) Industry conferences
TCP/IP Transport Layer
IT Services Financial Management
A Financial Audit
Stay current with technology
42. Handle application processing
BCP Plans
Foreign Key
A Cold Site
Application Controls
43. To communication security policies - procedures - and other security-related information to an organization's employees.
Examples of Application Controls
Sampling Risk
Control Risk
Security Awareness program
44. The purpose of an auditor doing interviews - To observe personnel to better understand their discipline - as well as ______________.
Organizational culture and maturity
General Controls
Documentation and interview personnel
WAN Protocols
45. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review
An Integrated Audit
Formal waterfall
IT Services Financial Management
Testing activities
46. 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
A Virtual Server
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
Audit logging
Attribute Sampling
47. The primary source for test plans in a software development project is: ________________ that are developed for a project should be the primary source for detailed tests.
IT Services Financial Management
Network Layer Protocols
Power system controls
The Requirements
48. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.
less than 24 hours
Release management
A Service Provider audit
OSI: Physical Layer
49. 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 _________________.
The Eight Types of Audits
Entire password for an encryption key
List of systems examined
Hash
50. 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.
SDLC Phases
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
Service Continuity Management
The audit program