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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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1. An audit of operational efficiency.
Notify the Audit Committee
Registers
An Administrative
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
2. External auditors are needed under these conditions: (1.) When the organization ________________________. (2.) Some regulations and standards require external - independent auditors
Network Layer Protocols
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
The Steering Committee
TCP/IP Transport Layer
3. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.
Sample Standard Deviation
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
Split custody
Buffers
4. A sampling technique where a population is divided into classes or strata - based upon the value of one of the attributes. Samples are then selected from each class.
Disaster Recovery
Structural fires and transportation accidents
IT Service Management
Stratified Sampling
5. A representation of how closely a sample represents an entire population.
The Release process
Security Awareness program
Precision means
The Business Process Life Cycle
6. ____________________ 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
Geographic location
Network Layer Protocols
Antivirus software on the email servers
The Business Process Life Cycle
7. (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
Organizational culture and maturity
Data Link Layer Standards
Blade Computer Architecture
Sampling Risk
8. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Input validation checking
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
9. (1.) General (2.) Application
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
Main types of Controls
10. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act
Sampling
The BCP process
Deming Cycle
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
11. The result of strategic planning - process development - and systems development - which all contribute towards a launch of business operations to reach a set of business objectives.
Business Realization
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
List of systems examined
A Server Cluster
12. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
Database primary key
Detection Risk
Network Layer Protocols
13. 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.
Employee termination process
Testing activities
TCP/IP Transport Layer
Network Layer Protocols
14. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.
The Eight Types of Audits
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
Elements of the COBIT Framework
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
15. 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
Organizational culture and maturity
A Service Provider audit
Precision means
The Business Process Life Cycle
16. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment
A Virtual Server
IT Strategy
Six steps of the Release Management process
Organizational culture and maturity
17. 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.
Cloud computing
Department Charters
A Service Provider audit
Confidence coefficient
18. 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.
The Requirements
objective and unbiased
Inform the auditee
Prblem Management
19. The purpose of an auditor doing interviews - To observe personnel to better understand their discipline - as well as ______________.
Overall audit risk
Insourcing
Organizational culture and maturity
Stay current with technology
20. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality
less than 24 hours
Primary security features of relational databases
Criticality analysis
Risk Management
21. An organization is building a data center in an area frequented by power outages. The organization cannot tolerate power outages. The best _________________solution is an electric generator and an uninterruptible power supply. The UPS responds to the
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
Expected Error Rate
Power system controls
Vulnerability in the organization's PBX
22. The set of activities that is concerned with the ability of the organization to continue to provide services - primarily in the event that a natural or man made disaster has occurred.
Audit Methodologies
Service Continuity Management
Stop-or-go Sampling
Power system controls
23. (1.) Authentication (2.) Authorization (3.) Change Management (4.) Completeness checks (5.) Validation checks (6.) Input controls (7.) Output controls (8.) Problem management (9.) Identification/access controls
Examples of Application Controls
Configuration Management
Referential Integrity
Statement of Impact
24. 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.
Main types of Controls
Application Layer protocols
An Operational Audit
Hash
25. Focuses on: maintaining service availability with the least disruption to standard operating parameters during an event
OSI Layer 7: Application
Business Continuity
Compliance Testing
Registers
26. 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
Business Continuity
IT Services Financial Management
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
Database primary key
27. Define 10 elements of an Audit - (1.) Subject of audit (2.) Audit Objective (3.) Type of audit (4.) Audit scope (5.) Pre-audit planning (6.) Audit procedures (7.) Communication plan (8.) Report Preparation (9.) Wrap-up (10.) Post-audit follow-up
Audit Methodologies
Options for Risk Treatment
less than 24 hours
Balanced Scorecard
28. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them
Inherent Risk
Service Continuity Management
Stop-or-go Sampling
Dimensions of the COSO cube
29. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.
Sampling
Gantt Chart
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
An Administrative
30. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.
Assess the maturity of its business processes
Controls
An Operational Audit
A Forensic Audit
31. 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 Continuity
Variable Sampling
General Controls
Assess the maturity of its business processes
32. 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
A Cold Site
TCP/IP Link Layer
Referential Integrity
Notify the Audit Committee
33. Information is arranged in frames and transported across the medium. Collision detection. Checksum verification of delivery.
TCP/IP Network Model
OSI: Data Link Layer
PERT Diagram?
Employees with excessive privileges
34. Gantt: used to display ______________.
Cloud computing
Examples of IT General Controls
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
Resource details
35. 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
Reduced sign-on
The two Categories of Controls
Balanced Scorecard
Options for Risk Treatment
36. An estimate that expresses the percent of errors or exceptions that may exist in an entire population
Expected Error Rate
Antivirus software on the email servers
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
Database primary key
37. Who is responsible for imposing an IT governance model encompassing IT strategy - information security - and formal enterprise architectural mandates?
IT executives and the Board of Directors
Sampling Risk
Information systems access
The audit program
38. (1.) Reliable delivery (2.) Connection oriented (persistent connection) (3.) Order of Delivery (4.) Flow Control (transfer rate is throttled) (5.) Port Number
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
Stop-or-go Sampling
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
Entire password for an encryption key
39. (1.) Utility (DNS - SNMP - DHCP (2.) Messaging protocols (SMTP) (3.) Data Transfer protocols (NFS - FTP) (4.) Interactive protocols (Telnet)
Application Layer protocols
Cloud computing
Registers
Confidence coefficient
40. Focuses on: post-event recovery and restoration of services
Data Link Layer Standards
Notify the Audit Committee
Grid Computing
Disaster Recovery
41. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.
Service Level Management
Tolerable Error Rate
Emergency Changes
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
42. 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.
TCP/IP Link Layer
Data Link Layer Standards
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
43. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Judgmental sampling
Referential Integrity
Service Continuity Management
44. Used to measure the relative maturity of an organization and its processes.
Entire password for an encryption key
Capability Maturity Model
OSI Layer 5: Session
A Sample Mean
45. Support the functioning of the application controls
General Controls
Volumes of COSO framework
Buffers
Discovery Sampling
46. 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 Financial Audit
Inherent Risk
Sample Standard Deviation
Examples of IT General Controls
47. Handle application processing
Categories of risk treatment
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
ISO 20000 Standard:
Application Controls
48. Framework for auditing and measuring IT Service Management Processes.
SDLC Phases
Application Controls
ISO 20000 Standard:
Capability Maturity Model
49. 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?
Discovery Sampling
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
Emergency Changes
Business impact analysis
50. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components
The availability of IT systems
Business impact analysis
Department Charters
Referential Integrity