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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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1. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.
Critical Path Methodology
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
OSI: Physical Layer
OSI: Transport Layer
2. ____________________ 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
Six steps of the Release Management process
Options for Risk Treatment
Database primary key
Geographic location
3. 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.
Information security policy
Sampling
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
4. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP
Control Risk
Transport Layer Protocols
Sampling Risk
A Problem
5. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning
Application Controls
Gantt Chart
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
Business impact analysis
6. 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
Resource details
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
Elements of the COBIT Framework
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
7. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act
Data Link Layer Standards
Referential Integrity
A Cold Site
Deming Cycle
8. 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 ________.
Attribute Sampling
The Release process
less than 24 hours
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
9. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)
The availability of IT systems
Assess the maturity of its business processes
Control Unit
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
10. An active - instance of a server operating system running on a machine that is designed to house two or more such virtual servers.
Security Awareness program
A Virtual Server
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
Cloud computing
11. (1.) Reliable delivery (2.) Connection oriented (persistent connection) (3.) Order of Delivery (4.) Flow Control (transfer rate is throttled) (5.) Port Number
Prblem Management
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
PERT Diagram?
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
12. 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
Information systems access
IT Services Financial Management
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
Prblem Management
13. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality
Service Level Management
Detection Risk
Criticality analysis
Incident Management
14. 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.
Inform the auditee
Elements of the COBIT Framework
A Financial Audit
Statistical Sampling
15. A representation of how closely a sample represents an entire population.
Overall audit risk
Precision means
OSI: Network Layer
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
16. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.
OSI: Network Layer
Precision means
Antivirus software on the email servers
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
17. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient
Statement of Impact
A Problem
Stay current with technology
Sampling Risk
18. An auditor has detected potential fraud while testing a control objective - He should ___________________. Because Audit committee members are generally not involved in business operations - they will be sufficiently remove from the matter - and they
Elements of the COSO pyramid
IT Service Management
Hash
Notify the Audit Committee
19. (1.) Feasibility (2.) Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
Notify the Audit Committee
Service Continuity Management
Audit Methodologies
20. The process of recording the configuration of IT systems. Each configuration setting is known in ITSM parlance as a Configuration Item.
OSI: Network Layer
Entire password for an encryption key
objective and unbiased
Configuration Management
21. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time
Statement of Impact
Current and most up-to-date
The Business Process Life Cycle
Referential Integrity
22. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.
OSI Layer 7: Application
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
An Operational Audit
23. Handle application processing
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
Cloud computing
Application Controls
24. (1.) Utility (DNS - SNMP - DHCP (2.) Messaging protocols (SMTP) (3.) Data Transfer protocols (NFS - FTP) (4.) Interactive protocols (Telnet)
Information systems access
CPU
Application Layer protocols
A Server Cluster
25. Subjective sampling is used when the auditor wants to _________________________.
OSI: Data Link Layer
Background checks performed
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
General Controls
26. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment
Service Level Management
Six steps of the Release Management process
Business Continuity
A Virtual Server
27. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.
SDLC Phases
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
Antivirus software on the email servers
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
28. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample
Sample Standard Deviation
The two Categories of Controls
A Sample Mean
Main types of Controls
29. 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.)
Sampling Risk
General Controls
The Release process
Employee termination process
30. The annual expected loss to an asset. It is calculated as the single loss expectancy (SLE) X the annualized rate of occurrence (ARO.)
BCP Plans
Critical Path Methodology
Server cluster
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
31. (1.) MPLS (2.) SONET (3.) T-Carrier (4.) Frame Relay (5.) ISDN (6.) X.25
WAN Protocols
An Operational Audit
Data Link Layer Standards
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
32. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
Statistical Sampling
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
Audit logging
33. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.
Balanced Scorecard
Information security policy
Stratified Sampling
Statement of Impact
34. An IS auditor needs to perform an audit of a financial system and needs to trace individual transactions through the system. What type of testing should the auditor perform?
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
A Forensic Audit
35. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices
Insourcing
BCP Plans
Stay current with technology
Advantages of outsourcing
36. Focuses on: post-event recovery and restoration of services
Confidence coefficient
Disaster Recovery
Reduced sign-on
Resource details
37. 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
The availability of IT systems
Grid Computing
Department Charters
Blade Computer Architecture
38. 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
Main types of Controls
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
Application Controls
General Controls
39. Used to control connections that are established between systems (1.) TCP (2.) IPC (3.) SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) (4.) RPC (Remote Procedure Call) (5.) NetBIOS
OSI Layer 5: Session
Volumes of COSO framework
A Cold Site
TCP/IP Internet Layer
40. (1.) IP (2.) ICMP (3.) RRC (Radio Resource Control) (4.) AppleTalk
TCP/IP Network Model
Network Layer Protocols
Elements of the COSO pyramid
Examples of IT General Controls
41. To communication security policies - procedures - and other security-related information to an organization's employees.
Sample Standard Deviation
Security Awareness program
Capability Maturity Model
Project change request
42. IS auditors can _____________________ through the following means: (1.) training courses (2.) webinars (3.) ISACA chapter training events (4.) Industry conferences
Stay current with technology
Deming Cycle
Department Charters
Project change request
43. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.
SDLC Phases
IT Service Management
Project change request
Structural fires and transportation accidents
44. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them
Grid Computing
Inherent Risk
Judgmental sampling
Application Layer protocols
45. In Release Management - _________________ means that each step of the release process undergoes formal review and approval before the next step is allowed to begin.
A gate process
Stratified Sampling
Insourcing
Registers
46. 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
Variable Sampling
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
The Software Program Library
Discovery Sampling
47. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.
The audit program
IT executives and the Board of Directors
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
An Integrated Audit
48. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.
Control Risk
less than 24 hours
Three Types of Controls
TCP/IP Link Layer
49. An external IS auditor has discovered a _______________________ - The external auditor can only document the finding in the audit report. An external auditor is not in a position to implement controls.
Statistical Sampling
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
CPU
PERT Diagram?
50. 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
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
objective and unbiased
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
Buffers