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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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1. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP
Transport Layer Protocols
Grid Computing
objective and unbiased
Dimensions of the COSO cube
2. During the development phase - Developers should only be performing Unit Testing - to verify that the individual sections of code they have written are performing properly.
Testing activities
Project Management Strategies
The Steering Committee
The Business Process Life Cycle
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
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
Geographic location
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
4. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems
Business Continuity
An Integrated Audit
The first step in a business impact analysis
Expected Error Rate
5. 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.
The Requirements
The Release process
Referential Integrity
The BCP process
6. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.
SDLC Phases
The Software Program Library
Stratified Sampling
Judgmental sampling
7. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.
Notify the Audit Committee
Information security policy
Dimensions of the COSO cube
TCP/IP Link Layer
8. A large number of loosely coupled computers that are used to solve a common task may be in close proximity to each other or scattered over a large geographical area.
WAN Protocols
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
Grid Computing
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
9. (1.) Physical (2.) Technical (4.) Administrative
Input validation checking
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
Power system controls
Three Types of Controls
10. Support the functioning of the application controls
Data Link Layer Standards
Application Layer protocols
Sampling Risk
General Controls
11. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.
Service Level Management
Incident Management
Data Link Layer Standards
Department Charters
12. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning
Split custody
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
Detection Risk
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
13. 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
IT Service Management
Application Layer protocols
Employee termination process
The two Categories of Controls
14. To communication security policies - procedures - and other security-related information to an organization's employees.
Security Awareness program
Audit Methodologies
A Forensic Audit
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
15. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.
Grid Computing
Information security policy
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
Project Management Strategies
16. 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.
TCP/IP Internet Layer
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
Inform the auditee
OSI: Data Link Layer
17. A computer uses RAM for several purposes: (1.) Operating System - to store info regarding running processes (2.) ____________ - that are used to temporarily store information retrieved from hard disks (3.) Storage of program code (4.) Storage of prog
Volumes of COSO framework
A Cold Site
Buffers
Overall audit risk
18. One of a database table's fields - whose value is unique.
Database primary key
A Cold Site
Project Management Strategies
Volumes of COSO framework
19. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.
OSI: Physical Layer
Separate administrative accounts
More difficult to perform
Statistical Sampling
20. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
Variable Sampling
A Compliance audit
Attribute Sampling
21. 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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22. (1.) IP (2.) ICMP (3.) RRC (Radio Resource Control) (4.) AppleTalk
A Server Cluster
Server cluster
Network Layer Protocols
OSI: Network Layer
23. (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
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
Database primary key
24. 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.
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
Input validation checking
Control Unit
A Server Cluster
25. 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.
OSI: Physical Layer
IT Service Management
Sample Standard Deviation
Cloud computing
26. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application
The Business Process Life Cycle
Documentation and interview personnel
TCP/IP Network Model
The Eight Types of Audits
27. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.
A Compliance audit
Business impact analysis
Statement of Impact
The BCP process
28. 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.
Overall audit risk
Server cluster
Foreign Key
Variable Sampling
29. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.
IT Strategy
Registers
The Release process
TCP/IP Internet Layer
30. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Framework (3.) Reporting to External Parties (4.) Evaluation Tools
Entire password for an encryption key
Inform the auditee
Volumes of COSO framework
Foreign Key
31. An audit of operational efficiency.
Organizational culture and maturity
An Administrative
The BCP process
IT Service Management
32. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.
A Sample Mean
A Compliance audit
Sample Standard Deviation
Judgmental sampling
33. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.
OSI Layer 7: Application
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
objective and unbiased
A Forensic Audit
34. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.
Structural fires and transportation accidents
An Operational Audit
General Controls
BCP Plans
35. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.
Resource details
The first step in a business impact analysis
Detection Risk
TCP/IP Link Layer
36. In Release Management - _________________ means that each step of the release process undergoes formal review and approval before the next step is allowed to begin.
List of systems examined
Variable Sampling
A gate process
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
37. 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.
IT Service Management
Statement of Impact
Notify the Audit Committee
Gantt Chart
38. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)
Input validation checking
Transport Layer Protocols
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
Control Unit
39. (1.) Access controls (2.) Encryption (3.) Audit logging
Organizational culture and maturity
Primary security features of relational databases
Formal waterfall
A Virtual Server
40. 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.
An Administrative
Hash
Categories of risk treatment
The availability of IT systems
41. 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
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Stop-or-go Sampling
Capability Maturity Model
More difficult to perform
42. (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
The Software Program Library
Assess the maturity of its business processes
The BCP process
Statistical Sampling
43. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act
Stay current with technology
Deming Cycle
ISO 20000 Standard:
Employees with excessive privileges
44. 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.
More difficult to perform
The availability of IT systems
WAN Protocols
A Financial Audit
45. 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
Application Layer protocols
Confidence coefficient
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
Three Types of Controls
46. (1.) Feasibility (2.) Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation
Documentation and interview personnel
Stay current with technology
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
Attribute Sampling
47. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components
TCP/IP Link Layer
A Service Provider audit
The availability of IT systems
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
48. The purpose of an auditor doing interviews - To observe personnel to better understand their discipline - as well as ______________.
Entire password for an encryption key
Background checks performed
Organizational culture and maturity
Power system controls
49. Delivery of packets from one station to another - on the same network or on different networks.
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
Precision means
Foreign Key
A Server Cluster
50. The annual expected loss to an asset. It is calculated as the single loss expectancy (SLE) X the annualized rate of occurrence (ARO.)
Department Charters
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
less than 24 hours
Balanced Scorecard