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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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1. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.
Current and most up-to-date
Business impact analysis
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
Project Management Strategies
2. 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.
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
Database primary key
Examples of Application Controls
Testing activities
3. 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
Server cluster
Employees with excessive privileges
Sample Standard Deviation
A Financial Audit
4. What type of testing is performed to verify the accuracy and integrity of transactions as they flow through a system?
TCP/IP Internet Layer
Substantive Testing
A Cold Site
Information systems access
5. Information is arranged in frames and transported across the medium. Collision detection. Checksum verification of delivery.
Referential Integrity
OSI: Data Link Layer
Current and most up-to-date
Department Charters
6. Should include 4 steps: (1.) Emergency Approval (2.) Implementation (3.) Verification (4.) Review
Main types of Controls
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
Emergency Changes
The Steering Committee
7. Subjective sampling is used when the auditor wants to _________________________.
Emergency Changes
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
8. n audit strategy and plans that include: (1.) Scope (2.) Objectives (3.) Resources (4.) Procedures used to evaluation controls and processes
Risk Management
Critical Path Methodology
Stop-or-go Sampling
The audit program
9. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.
Documentation and interview personnel
Blade Computer Architecture
A Sample Mean
Notify the Audit Committee
10. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)
Control Unit
Sampling Risk
Precision means
Elements of the COBIT Framework
11. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components
An Integrated Audit
The availability of IT systems
Criticality analysis
Formal waterfall
12. 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
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
The availability of IT systems
Critical Path Methodology
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
13. An auditor has discovered several errors in user account management: many terminated employees' computer accounts are still active. The best course of action - To improve the _________________ to reduce the number of exceptions. For a time - the proc
Service Continuity Management
Employee termination process
CPU
Elements of the COSO pyramid
14. Collections of Controls that work together to achieve an entire range of an organization's objectives.
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
Release management
Separate administrative accounts
Frameworks
15. An audit of an accounting system - accounting department processes - and procedures to determine if business controls are sufficient to ensure the integrity of financial statements.
Compliance Testing
A Financial Audit
Stratified Sampling
Criticality analysis
16. 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
The Business Process Life Cycle
Deming Cycle
Discovery Sampling
The Release process
17. 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
Discovery Sampling
Three Types of Controls
Insourcing
18. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.
Employees with excessive privileges
Department Charters
List of systems examined
TCP/IP Link Layer
19. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine the numeric total of a specific attribute from the entire population.
Input validation checking
Reduced sign-on
Sample Standard Deviation
Variable Sampling
20. To determine effectiveness of a disaster recovery program - an IT auditor should examine _____________.
Documentation and interview personnel
Input validation checking
An Operational Audit
Employee termination process
21. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act
Detection Risk
TCP/IP Link Layer
Deming Cycle
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
22. 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
Vulnerability in the organization's PBX
Project Management Strategies
Structural fires and transportation accidents
23. 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.
The availability of IT systems
The audit program
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
Information security policy
24. An active - instance of a server operating system running on a machine that is designed to house two or more such virtual servers.
A Virtual Server
Data Link Layer Standards
An Administrative
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
25. (1.) IP (2.) ICMP (3.) RRC (Radio Resource Control) (4.) AppleTalk
Statement of Impact
Concentrate on samples known to represent high risk
Network Layer Protocols
A Problem
26. The highest number of errors that can exist without a result being materially misstated.
Power system controls
Tolerable Error Rate
Incident Management
Detection Risk
27. Guide program execution through organization of resources and development of clear project objectives.
Function Point Analysis
Foreign Key
Project Management Strategies
TCP/IP Transport Layer
28. 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
less than 24 hours
Statement of Impact
Project Management Strategies
29. (1.) Access controls (2.) Encryption (3.) Audit logging
Split custody
Documentation and interview personnel
Primary security features of relational databases
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
30. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
Formal waterfall
Configuration Management
Sample Standard Deviation
31. (1.) Develop a BC Policy (2.) Conduct BIA (3.) Perform critical analysis (4.) Establish recovery targets (5.) Develop recovery and continuity strategies and plans (6.) Test recovery and continuity plans and procedures Train personnel Maintain strateg
The BCP process
Statement of Impact
Control Unit
Primary security features of relational databases
32. 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
TCP/IP Transport Layer
Categories of risk treatment
objective and unbiased
Volumes of COSO framework
33. A field in a record in one table that can reference a primary key in another table that can reference a primary key in another table.
Business Continuity
Foreign Key
less than 24 hours
Configuration Management
34. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application
Insourcing
Volumes of COSO framework
TCP/IP Network Model
Discovery Sampling
35. 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
Discovery Sampling
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
Registers
Department Charters
36. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.
Gantt Chart
Expected Error Rate
Deming Cycle
OSI: Network Layer
37. 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
OSI Layer 7: Application
Project change request
Organizational culture and maturity
Reduced sign-on
38. 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.
Overall audit risk
Registers
Split custody
Grid Computing
39. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine how many samples possess a specific characteristic.
Foreign Key
Attribute Sampling
The BCP process
Sampling
40. 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.
General Controls
Service Continuity Management
The availability of IT systems
Information security policy
41. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.
Formal waterfall
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
Service Level Management
Security Awareness program
42. (1.) Reliable delivery (2.) Connection oriented (persistent connection) (3.) Order of Delivery (4.) Flow Control (transfer rate is throttled) (5.) Port Number
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
A Problem
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
43. (1.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas
OSI: Network Layer
Dimensions of the COSO cube
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
An Integrated Audit
44. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider
TCP/IP Link Layer
TCP/IP Network Model
Recovery time objective
The Eight Types of Audits
45. One of a database table's fields - whose value is unique.
Database primary key
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
OSI: Data Link Layer
Business Continuity
46. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.
Release management
OSI: Physical Layer
Application Layer protocols
Function Point Analysis
47. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.
Blade Computer Architecture
Background checks performed
A Sample Mean
Frameworks
48. 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.
Critical Path Methodology
Background checks performed
Audit logging
Business Continuity
49. An audit of a third-party organization that provides services to other organizations.
A Service Provider audit
Main types of Controls
Geographic location
Disaster Recovery
50. (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
Data Link Layer Standards
PERT Diagram?
less than 24 hours
Inform the auditee