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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Sampling
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
OSI Layer 5: Session
Control Risk
2. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)
Control Unit
Transport Layer Protocols
A Server Cluster
Statistical Sampling
3. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
A Cold Site
Geographic location
Statistical Sampling
4. To review and approve proposed changes to systems and infrastructure. This helps to reduce the risk of unintended events and unplanned downtime.
Expected Error Rate
Change management
Employees with excessive privileges
Insourcing
5. An audit of an IS department's operations and systems.
Resource details
An IS audit
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Project change request
6. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.
An Operational Audit
A Cold Site
The first step in a business impact analysis
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
7. Outsourcing is an opportunity for the organization to focus on core competencies. When an organization oursources a business function - it no longer needs to be concerned about training employees in that function. Outsources does not always reduce co
Blade Computer Architecture
Advantages of outsourcing
A gate process
Transport Layer Protocols
8. 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.
A Service Provider audit
CPU
SDLC Phases
Gantt Chart
9. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.
Power system controls
IT Services Financial Management
Primary security features of relational databases
A Compliance audit
10. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review
Audit Methodologies
Formal waterfall
Advantages of outsourcing
Grid Computing
11. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Governance and control framework (3.) Control Objectives (4.) Management Guidelines (5.) Implementation Guide (6.) IT Assurance Guide
Elements of the COBIT Framework
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
Overall audit risk
The audit program
12. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
Balanced Scorecard
TCP/IP Network Model
The two Categories of Controls
13. 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
Options for Risk Treatment
Entire password for an encryption key
A Service Provider audit
objective and unbiased
14. 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.
Detection Risk
Geographic location
Testing activities
The Requirements
15. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample
A Service Provider audit
Hash
Information systems access
Sample Standard Deviation
16. 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
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
Project Management Strategies
Department Charters
Service Continuity Management
17. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.
Employees with excessive privileges
IT executives and the Board of Directors
Main types of Controls
TCP/IP Transport Layer
18. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act
OSI: Network Layer
The Release process
Prblem Management
Deming Cycle
19. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.
Antivirus software on the email servers
Elements of the COSO pyramid
Audit Methodologies
OSI Layer 7: Application
20. 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.
Confidence coefficient
A Compliance audit
OSI Layer 5: Session
Audit logging
21. 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?
Risk Management
Criticality analysis
OSI: Physical Layer
Transport Layer Protocols
22. 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.
Sampling Risk
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
The Steering Committee
The Requirements
23. (1.) Physical (2.) Technical (4.) Administrative
Foreign Key
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
Examples of IT General Controls
Three Types of Controls
24. (1.) Access controls (2.) Encryption (3.) Audit logging
Statistical Sampling
Dimensions of the COSO cube
ISO 20000 Standard:
Primary security features of relational databases
25. The process to ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of all changes.
Statement of Impact
A Financial Audit
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Inform the auditee
26. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
TCP/IP Link Layer
Inherent Risk
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
27. 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 two Categories of Controls
Deming Cycle
Detection Risk
28. A collection of two or more servers that is designed to appear as a single server.
A Virtual Server
Volumes of COSO framework
CPU
Server cluster
29. 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.
List of systems examined
Project change request
Entire password for an encryption key
Control Unit
30. 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
Service Continuity Management
Employees with excessive privileges
Function Point Analysis
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
31. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices
PERT Diagram?
Registers
Stop-or-go Sampling
BCP Plans
32. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems
Disaster Recovery
The first step in a business impact analysis
Testing activities
Volumes of COSO framework
33. Used to measure the relative maturity of an organization and its processes.
Dimensions of the COSO cube
The Software Program Library
Capability Maturity Model
Formal waterfall
34. 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.
Frameworks
Separate administrative accounts
Security Awareness program
Critical Path Methodology
35. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
Criticality analysis
Control Risk
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
36. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.
The Eight Types of Audits
Split custody
Buffers
The first step in a business impact analysis
37. 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.
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
Criticality analysis
Advantages of outsourcing
Grid Computing
38. (1.) Feasibility (2.) Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation
IT Strategy
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Elements of the COBIT Framework
39. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
Business Realization
Examples of Application Controls
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
40. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality
Stay current with technology
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
Buffers
Criticality analysis
41. 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.
A Problem
Release management
A Sample Mean
Information security policy
42. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application
TCP/IP Network Model
Three Types of Controls
A Virtual Server
Function Point Analysis
43. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery
OSI: Transport Layer
Six steps of the Release Management process
Gantt Chart
PERT Diagram?
44. 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
Insourcing
Cloud computing
Reduced sign-on
Audit logging
45. 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.
Recovery time objective
Hash
Attribute Sampling
Sampling Risk
46. The highest number of errors that can exist without a result being materially misstated.
TCP/IP Transport Layer
BCP Plans
Tolerable Error Rate
The BCP process
47. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.
Current and most up-to-date
Criticality analysis
A Cold Site
Dimensions of the COSO cube
48. Who is responsible for imposing an IT governance model encompassing IT strategy - information security - and formal enterprise architectural mandates?
Inherent Risk
Main types of Controls
IT executives and the Board of Directors
Antivirus software on the email servers
49. 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
Compliance Testing
Referential Integrity
Network Layer Protocols
50. 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
An Operational Audit
Network Layer Protocols
Project Management Strategies