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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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1. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems
The first step in a business impact analysis
Blade Computer Architecture
A Forensic Audit
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
2. (1.) Access controls (2.) Encryption (3.) Audit logging
Rating Scale for Process Maturity
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Primary security features of relational databases
The BCP process
3. 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
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
The first step in a business impact analysis
A Financial Audit
4. (1.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas
Prblem Management
Resource details
Dimensions of the COSO cube
CPU
5. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.
less than 24 hours
PERT Diagram?
Controls
IT executives and the Board of Directors
6. 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
Three Types of Controls
The BCP process
IT Service Management
Notify the Audit Committee
7. 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
Buffers
Department Charters
Controls
The audit program
8. An active - instance of a server operating system running on a machine that is designed to house two or more such virtual servers.
Configuration Management
A Virtual Server
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
Foreign Key
9. Critical Path Methodology helps a project manager determine which activities are on a project's critical list - ________________________.
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
Sampling Risk
Input validation checking
10. An organization that has experienced a sudden increase in its long-distance charges has asked an auditor to investigate. The auditor is most likely to suspect that intruders have discovered a ______________________and is committing toll fraud.
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11. To measure organizational performance and effectiveness against strategic goals.
Balanced Scorecard
Critical Path Methodology
Configuration Management
OSI Layer 7: Application
12. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.
Options for Risk Treatment
The two Categories of Controls
Employee termination process
A Cold Site
13. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.
Information security policy
Grid Computing
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Emergency Changes
14. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.
Three Types of Controls
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
IT Service Management
Confidence coefficient
15. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.
Employee termination process
Project Management Strategies
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
TCP/IP Link Layer
16. 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.
A Financial Audit
Function Point Analysis
SDLC Phases
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
17. An organization experiences frequent malware infections on end-user workstations that are received through email - despite the tact that workstations have anti-virus software. To reducing malware - Implementing ________________ will provide an effect
Antivirus software on the email servers
OSI Layer 7: Application
A Compliance audit
Employee termination process
18. An audit of an IS department's operations and systems.
Project change request
Main types of Controls
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
An IS audit
19. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.
Employee termination process
A Sample Mean
Elements of the COBIT Framework
Organizational culture and maturity
20. 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.
Formal waterfall
An Operational Audit
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
OSI: Network Layer
21. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.
A Compliance audit
Judgmental sampling
Attribute Sampling
Referential Integrity
22. External auditors are needed under these conditions: (1.) When the organization ________________________. (2.) Some regulations and standards require external - independent auditors
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
Incident Management
List of systems examined
(1.) Polices (2.) Procedures (3.) Standards
23. The annual expected loss to an asset. It is calculated as the single loss expectancy (SLE) X the annualized rate of occurrence (ARO.)
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
Emergency Changes
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Audit Methodologies
24. An auditor is examining a key management process and has found that the IT department is not following its split-custody procedure. As a result - Someone may be in possession of the _________________.
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
The Release process
Entire password for an encryption key
A Financial Audit
25. Used to measure the relative maturity of an organization and its processes.
Incident Management
Security Awareness program
A Compliance audit
Capability Maturity Model
26. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance
An Integrated Audit
Categories of risk treatment
Judgmental sampling
Critical Path Methodology
27. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample
Registers
Sample Standard Deviation
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
ISO 20000 Standard:
28. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components
The availability of IT systems
Database primary key
Employee termination process
Referential Integrity
29. Framework for auditing and measuring IT Service Management Processes.
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
ISO 20000 Standard:
Geographic location
Configuration Management
30. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time
Statement of Impact
Three Types of Controls
An Operational Audit
Variable Sampling
31. 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.
Department Charters
Criticality analysis
Options for Risk Treatment
Gantt Chart
32. A CMM helps an organization to _______________ - which is an important first step to any large-scale process improvement effort.
Assess the maturity of its business processes
Current and most up-to-date
Discovery Sampling
BCP Plans
33. 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.
Detection Risk
Referential Integrity
Statement of Impact
An Administrative
34. An organization has discovered that some of its employees have criminal records. The best course of action for the organization to take - The organization should have ___________________ on all of its existing employees and also begin instituting bac
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
Employee termination process
Background checks performed
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
35. A sampling technique where at least one exception is sought in a population
Application Controls
Antivirus software on the email servers
Discovery Sampling
OSI: Data Link Layer
36. The 5 types of risks that are related to audits include: (1.) Control Risk (2.) Detection Risk (3.) Inherent risk (4.) _____________ (5.) Sampling risk
Overall audit risk
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
Wet pipe fire sprinkler system
Assess the maturity of its business processes
37. 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.)
Audit logging
Capability Maturity Model
The Release process
OSI Layer 7: Application
38. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Service Continuity Management
The Steering Committee
39. An audit that is performed in support of an anticipated or active legal proceeding.
Server cluster
Inform the auditee
A Forensic Audit
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
40. (1.) IP (2.) ICMP (3.) RRC (Radio Resource Control) (4.) AppleTalk
Notify the Audit Committee
Audit Methodologies
An Administrative
Network Layer Protocols
41. 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
Network Layer Protocols
Notify the Audit Committee
Input validation checking
42. 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
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
Variable Sampling
objective and unbiased
Structural fires and transportation accidents
43. The purpose of an auditor doing interviews - To observe personnel to better understand their discipline - as well as ______________.
OSI: Network Layer
Input validation checking
BCP Plans
Organizational culture and maturity
44. (1.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication
Cloud computing
Compliance Testing
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
Elements of the COSO pyramid
45. 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.
objective and unbiased
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
Categories of risk treatment
Critical Path Methodology
46. Deliver messages from one station to another on the same network or on different networks. Messaging at this layer is not guaranteed.
OSI Layer 7: Application
TCP/IP Internet Layer
Cloud computing
Risk Management
47. What type of testing is performed to verify the accuracy and integrity of transactions as they flow through a system?
Critical Path Methodology
Substantive Testing
objective and unbiased
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
48. (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
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
Main types of Controls
Examples of IT General Controls
Recovery time objective
49. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
IT executives and the Board of Directors
Inherent Risk
50. Delivery of packets from one station to another - on the same network or on different networks.
The Internet Layer in the TCP/IP model
Expected Error Rate
Geographic location
Tolerable Error Rate