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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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1. To determine effectiveness of a disaster recovery program - an IT auditor should examine _____________.
A Cold Site
Testing activities
Documentation and interview personnel
Sampling
2. 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.
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
Stop-or-go Sampling
Criticality analysis
Project change request
3. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance
Change management
Categories of risk treatment
A Problem
The Requirements
4. The purpose of an auditor doing interviews - To observe personnel to better understand their discipline - as well as ______________.
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
The Steering Committee
Compliance Testing
Organizational culture and maturity
5. 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.
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
Service Continuity Management
BCP Plans
The first step in a business impact analysis
6. 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
Security Awareness program
An Operational Audit
The Business Process Life Cycle
Insourcing
7. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.
The Release process
Foreign Key
Business impact analysis
Documentation and interview personnel
8. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Framework (3.) Reporting to External Parties (4.) Evaluation Tools
Expected Error Rate
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
Server cluster
Volumes of COSO framework
9. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components
Transport Layer Protocols
Information systems access
OSI Layer 7: Application
The availability of IT systems
10. External auditors are needed under these conditions: (1.) When the organization ________________________. (2.) Some regulations and standards require external - independent auditors
Stop-or-go Sampling
Referential Integrity
Confidence coefficient
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
11. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.
A Compliance audit
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
Incident Management
Control Risk
12. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.
Configuration Management
Formal waterfall
Organizational culture and maturity
An Integrated Audit
13. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment
Control Unit
Six steps of the Release Management process
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
14. Subjective sampling is used when the auditor wants to _________________________.
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
Elements of the COSO pyramid
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
Data Link Layer Standards
15. (1.) Access controls (2.) Encryption (3.) Audit logging
Overall audit risk
Primary security features of relational databases
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
Power system controls
16. Handle application processing
A Cold Site
Application Controls
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
Criticality analysis
17. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)
Employees with excessive privileges
Inherent Risk
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
Control Unit
18. A collection of two or more servers that is designed to appear as a single server.
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
Server cluster
Foreign Key
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
19. 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
Incident Management
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
Grid Computing
Vulnerability in the organization's PBX
20. The result of strategic planning - process development - and systems development - which all contribute towards a launch of business operations to reach a set of business objectives.
less than 24 hours
An IS audit
Business Realization
The Software Program Library
21. 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
Application Layer protocols
General Controls
The Business Process Life Cycle
Department Charters
22. 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.
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
Critical Path Methodology
Testing activities
23. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.
Examples of IT General Controls
Capability Maturity Model
Employee termination process
OSI: Network Layer
24. A condition that is the result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms e.g. A web application is displaying information incorrectly and many users have contacted the IT service desk.
Service Continuity Management
A Problem
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
Structural fires and transportation accidents
25. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.
Precision means
Discovery Sampling
Judgmental sampling
Statistical Sampling
26. (1.) Physical (2.) Technical (4.) Administrative
Change management
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
Input validation checking
Three Types of Controls
27. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act
IT executives and the Board of Directors
Deming Cycle
The audit program
Resource details
28. ____________________ of the hot site is most important consideration for site selection. IF they are too close together then a single event may involve both locations
Controls
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Geographic location
Split custody
29. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.
A Service Provider audit
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
OSI: Physical Layer
Buffers
30. The main hardware component of a computer system - which executes instructions in computer programs.
CPU
Elements of the COBIT Framework
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
Release management
31. 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
Service Level Management
A Server Cluster
A Problem
32. The annual expected loss to an asset. It is calculated as the single loss expectancy (SLE) X the annualized rate of occurrence (ARO.)
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
Antivirus software on the email servers
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
Release management
33. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP
Transport Layer Protocols
An Operational Audit
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
OSI Layer 5: Session
34. 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.
A Server Cluster
Structural fires and transportation accidents
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
ISO 20000 Standard:
35. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records
Function Point Analysis
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
OSI: Transport Layer
Background checks performed
36. Critical Path Methodology helps a project manager determine which activities are on a project's critical list - ________________________.
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
Foreign Key
Primary security features of relational databases
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
37. 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
Notify the Audit Committee
Antivirus software on the email servers
TCP/IP Internet Layer
Hash
38. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
Reduced sign-on
The Eight Types of Audits
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
39. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.
OSI Layer 7: Application
Business Realization
Split custody
Statistical Sampling
40. (1.) Access Control (2.) Change Management (3.) Security Controls (4.) Incident Management (5.) SDLC (6.) Source code and versioning controls (7.) Monitoring and logging (8.) Event Management
A Financial Audit
PERT Diagram?
Examples of IT General Controls
Prblem Management
41. A sampling technique where at least one exception is sought in a population
Discovery Sampling
Geographic location
Incident Management
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
42. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.
A Virtual Server
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
A Cold Site
less than 24 hours
43. Collections of Controls that work together to achieve an entire range of an organization's objectives.
Sample Standard Deviation
Frameworks
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
44. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Organizational culture and maturity
The Business Process Life Cycle
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
45. A facility that is used to store and manage access to an organization's application source and object code. It consists of 5 parts: (1.) Access and authorization controls (2.) Program checkout (3.) Program Check-in (4.) Version Control (5.) Code Ana
CPU
The Software Program Library
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
Resource details
46. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration
Function Point Analysis
Inform the auditee
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
Attribute Sampling
47. (1.) Feasibility (2.) Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation
A Service Provider audit
An IS audit
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
Disaster Recovery
48. 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?
Sample Standard Deviation
Main types of Controls
Risk Management
CPU
49. IS auditors can _____________________ through the following means: (1.) training courses (2.) webinars (3.) ISACA chapter training events (4.) Industry conferences
Application Controls
Risk Management
An Integrated Audit
Stay current with technology
50. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine the numeric total of a specific attribute from the entire population.
Database primary key
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Variable Sampling
An Integrated Audit