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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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1. 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.
Registers
Documentation and interview personnel
Project change request
TCP/IP Internet Layer
2. 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
Insourcing
Options for Risk Treatment
Deming Cycle
Controls
3. The process of recording the configuration of IT systems. Each configuration setting is known in ITSM parlance as a Configuration Item.
Stop-or-go Sampling
OSI Layer 7: Application
OSI: Data Link Layer
Configuration Management
4. 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
Configuration Management
Six steps of the Release Management process
Frameworks
5. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.
Hash
Documentation and interview personnel
Examples of Application Controls
A Cold Site
6. 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 Compliance audit
Insourcing
Antivirus software on the email servers
Gantt Chart
7. 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
Substantive Testing
Tolerable Error Rate
Precision means
IT Service Management
8. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
Compliance Testing
Balanced Scorecard
OSI: Physical Layer
9. 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
Balanced Scorecard
Release management
Buffers
Substantive Testing
10. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time
Dimensions of the COSO cube
Statement of Impact
Confidence coefficient
Audit logging
11. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application
Confidence coefficient
TCP/IP Network Model
Service Continuity Management
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
12. An audit of an IS department's operations and systems.
A Virtual Server
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
An IS audit
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
13. Subjective sampling is used when the auditor wants to _________________________.
Entire password for an encryption key
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
Application Layer protocols
Security Awareness program
14. 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.
less than 24 hours
Documentation and interview personnel
Control Risk
A Forensic Audit
15. Delivery of packets from one station to another - on the same network or on different networks.
Cloud computing
Release management
Geographic location
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
16. Focuses on: post-event recovery and restoration of services
Buffers
Documentation and interview personnel
Three Types of Controls
Disaster Recovery
17. (1.) Feasibility Study (2.) Definition of Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation phase
SDLC Phases
Project change request
IT Strategy
Notify the Audit Committee
18. Handle application processing
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Information systems access
Incident Management
Application Controls
19. The highest number of errors that can exist without a result being materially misstated.
Main types of Controls
Tolerable Error Rate
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
20. An audit of a third-party organization that provides services to other organizations.
OSI: Physical Layer
Volumes of COSO framework
A Service Provider audit
IT Services Financial Management
21. 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.
Audit Methodologies
Critical Path Methodology
A Cold Site
Volumes of COSO framework
22. (1.) Utility (DNS - SNMP - DHCP (2.) Messaging protocols (SMTP) (3.) Data Transfer protocols (NFS - FTP) (4.) Interactive protocols (Telnet)
Business Continuity
A Service Provider audit
Inherent Risk
Application Layer protocols
23. The maximum period of downtime for a process or application
The first step in a business impact analysis
The two Categories of Controls
less than 24 hours
Recovery time objective
24. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.
Department Charters
The BCP process
Business impact analysis
Database primary key
25. 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
Discovery Sampling
Documentation and interview personnel
Information systems access
Advantages of outsourcing
26. (1.) Feasibility (2.) Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation
Antivirus software on the email servers
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
Deming Cycle
27. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
Volumes of COSO framework
Security Awareness program
Audit Methodologies
28. To determine effectiveness of a disaster recovery program - an IT auditor should examine _____________.
Business impact analysis
Assess the maturity of its business processes
A Sample Mean
Documentation and interview personnel
29. 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
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
Business Continuity
More difficult to perform
OSI: Physical Layer
30. 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.
Substantive Testing
Elements of the COBIT Framework
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
Stop-or-go Sampling
31. 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.
Grid Computing
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
IT Service Management
Sample Standard Deviation
32. (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
Split custody
Examples of IT General Controls
The Software Program Library
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
33. Guide program execution through organization of resources and development of clear project objectives.
The Release process
Service Continuity Management
Project Management Strategies
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
34. A condition often identified as a result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms. Problems can also be identified from a single significant incident for which the impact is significant.
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
IT Service Management
Dimensions of the COSO cube
Gantt Chart
35. Used to estimate the effort required to develop a software program.
Confidence coefficient
Function Point Analysis
The Release process
An Administrative
36. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.
A Sample Mean
Balanced Scorecard
Server cluster
Network Layer Protocols
37. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act
Structural fires and transportation accidents
The audit program
Deming Cycle
Sampling Risk
38. 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.
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
Separate administrative accounts
Disaster Recovery
Primary security features of relational databases
39. 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?
Three Types of Controls
Incident Management
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
40. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine how many samples possess a specific characteristic.
OSI: Data Link Layer
Notify the Audit Committee
Attribute Sampling
Audit logging
41. 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
An IS audit
Reduced sign-on
Sample Standard Deviation
Main types of Controls
42. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
OSI: Physical Layer
Incident Management
Critical Path Methodology
43. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.
Information security policy
Elements of the COSO pyramid
Blade Computer Architecture
Variable Sampling
44. 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
Attribute Sampling
The Software Program Library
Balanced Scorecard
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.
Elements of the COSO pyramid
Hash
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
Change management
46. 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
Registers
Reduced sign-on
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
The Software Program Library
47. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.
Configuration Management
Background checks performed
Hash
Judgmental sampling
48. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems
Control Unit
SDLC Phases
The first step in a business impact analysis
Critical Path Methodology
49. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.
Stay current with technology
A Virtual Server
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
Structural fires and transportation accidents
50. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.
Precision means
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
Confidence coefficient
Primary security features of relational databases