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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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1. Consists of 11 distinct activities: (1.) Service Desk (2.) Incident Management (3.) Problem Management (4.) Change Management (5.) Configuration Management (6.) Release Management (7.) Service-level Management (8.) Financial Management (9.) Capacity
Stratified Sampling
Transport Layer Protocols
A Forensic Audit
IT Service Management
2. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time
Statistical Sampling
Statement of Impact
An Operational Audit
Security Awareness program
3. 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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4. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - as the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient.
Sampling Risk
objective and unbiased
Background checks performed
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
5. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
Criticality analysis
Control Risk
6. 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.)
The Release process
objective and unbiased
A Forensic Audit
Audit Methodologies
7. (1.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas
Dimensions of the COSO cube
The availability of IT systems
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
less than 24 hours
8. Used to measure the relative maturity of an organization and its processes.
OSI: Transport Layer
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Sampling
Capability Maturity Model
9. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance
Categories of risk treatment
Application Controls
Controls
The first step in a business impact analysis
10. The party that performs strategic planning - addresses near-term and long-term requirements aligning business objectives - and technology strategies.
Dimensions of the COSO cube
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
Security Awareness program
The Steering Committee
11. 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?
Entire password for an encryption key
Application Controls
Risk Management
Department Charters
12. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
Release management
Categories of risk treatment
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
13. 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.
Stop-or-go Sampling
TCP/IP Network Model
Formal waterfall
Employee termination process
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
Capability Maturity Model
OSI: Transport Layer
Incident Management
SDLC Phases
15. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices
BCP Plans
IT Services Financial Management
An Operational Audit
The Requirements
16. 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
ISO 20000 Standard:
Control Risk
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
17. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.
Control Risk
Foreign Key
Input validation checking
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
18. An organization wants to reduce the number of user IDs and passwords that its employees need to remember. The best available solution to this - _______________. This provides a single authentication service (such as LDAP or AD) that many applications
Audit Methodologies
Release management
An Integrated Audit
Reduced sign-on
19. 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
Entire password for an encryption key
General Controls
Cloud computing
20. 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.
Incident Management
Hash
Project change request
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
21. 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.
Critical Path Methodology
Business impact analysis
A Forensic Audit
Hash
22. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.
An Operational Audit
Organizational culture and maturity
Three Types of Controls
OSI: Data Link Layer
23. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration
Detection Risk
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
The audit program
Judgmental sampling
24. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.
The audit program
Structural fires and transportation accidents
General Controls
Dimensions of the COSO cube
25. A critical application is backed up once per day. The recovery point objective (RPO) for an application that is backed up once per day cannot be ________.
TCP/IP Transport Layer
less than 24 hours
Testing activities
The Requirements
26. The purpose of an auditor doing interviews - To observe personnel to better understand their discipline - as well as ______________.
Foreign Key
Incident Management
Organizational culture and maturity
Tolerable Error Rate
27. Deliver messages from one station to another on the same network or on different networks. Messaging at this layer is not guaranteed.
IT Service Management
Three Types of Controls
The Requirements
TCP/IP Internet Layer
28. Focuses on: maintaining service availability with the least disruption to standard operating parameters during an event
The Release process
Business Continuity
Service Continuity Management
Confidence coefficient
29. 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
TCP/IP Internet Layer
Structural fires and transportation accidents
The Business Process Life Cycle
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
30. The memory locations in the CPU where arithmetic values are stored.
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
Referential Integrity
Discovery Sampling
Registers
31. An auditor has discovered that several administrators in an application share an administrative account. The auditor should recommend that - Several __________________ should be used. This will enforce accountability for each administrator's actions.
Six steps of the Release Management process
Separate administrative accounts
Foreign Key
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
32. IS auditors can _____________________ through the following means: (1.) training courses (2.) webinars (3.) ISACA chapter training events (4.) Industry conferences
Geographic location
Stay current with technology
TCP/IP Transport Layer
Power system controls
33. A sampling technique where items are chosen at random; each item has a statistically equal probability of being chosen.
Statistical Sampling
TCP/IP Transport Layer
The Release process
Gantt Chart
34. 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
General Controls
Options for Risk Treatment
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
35. Collections of Controls that work together to achieve an entire range of an organization's objectives.
The Steering Committee
A Financial Audit
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
Frameworks
36. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.
Service Level Management
Separate administrative accounts
A Financial Audit
Emergency Changes
37. The process of recording the configuration of IT systems. Each configuration setting is known in ITSM parlance as a Configuration Item.
TCP/IP Internet Layer
IT Service Management
Configuration Management
Service Continuity Management
38. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified
IT Strategy
Stop-or-go Sampling
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
Gantt Chart
39. Subjective sampling is used when the auditor wants to _________________________.
An IS audit
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
Geographic location
40. A database administrator has been asked to configure a database management system so that it records all changes made by users - The DBA should implement ___________. This will cause the database to record every change that is made to it.
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
Audit logging
Change management
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
41. 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
Notify the Audit Committee
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
objective and unbiased
42. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine the numeric total of a specific attribute from the entire population.
Business Realization
Background checks performed
OSI: Data Link Layer
Variable Sampling
43. (1.) Utility (DNS - SNMP - DHCP (2.) Messaging protocols (SMTP) (3.) Data Transfer protocols (NFS - FTP) (4.) Interactive protocols (Telnet)
WAN Protocols
Application Layer protocols
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
44. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery
Detection Risk
Background checks performed
objective and unbiased
OSI: Transport Layer
45. A CMM helps an organization to _______________ - which is an important first step to any large-scale process improvement effort.
objective and unbiased
The first step in a business impact analysis
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
Assess the maturity of its business processes
46. An audit of an IS department's operations and systems.
An IS audit
Organizational culture and maturity
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
Attribute Sampling
47. 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.
Critical Path Methodology
The Software Program Library
Attribute Sampling
Power system controls
48. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.
OSI: Network Layer
Controls
Sampling Risk
The availability of IT systems
49. 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
Confidence coefficient
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
A Compliance audit
50. 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
Overall audit risk
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
Critical Path Methodology