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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.
Variable Sampling
PERT Diagram?
A Server Cluster
An Integrated Audit
2. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.
Release management
OSI: Physical Layer
SDLC Phases
Testing activities
3. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them
Project change request
Inherent Risk
Statement of Impact
The two Categories of Controls
4. 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
TCP/IP Transport Layer
Information security policy
Notify the Audit Committee
Inherent Risk
5. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.
A Virtual Server
Substantive Testing
OSI: Physical Layer
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
6. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components
The availability of IT systems
Transport Layer Protocols
Emergency Changes
A gate process
7. 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
Tolerable Error Rate
Network Layer Protocols
Advantages of outsourcing
IT executives and the Board of Directors
8. Used to estimate the effort required to develop a software program.
Information security policy
Confidence coefficient
Function Point Analysis
Risk Management
9. Framework for auditing and measuring IT Service Management Processes.
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
ISO 20000 Standard:
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
IT Service Management
10. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample
The Eight Types of Audits
Control Risk
Sampling
Sample Standard Deviation
11. To determine effectiveness of a disaster recovery program - an IT auditor should examine _____________.
Split custody
Information security policy
Business Realization
Documentation and interview personnel
12. 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.
Disaster Recovery
Detection Risk
Control Risk
Stop-or-go Sampling
13. (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
The Steering Committee
Examples of IT General Controls
Formal waterfall
Function Point Analysis
14. An estimate that expresses the percent of errors or exceptions that may exist in an entire population
The Requirements
ISO 20000 Standard:
SDLC Phases
Expected Error Rate
15. Gantt: used to display ______________.
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
ISO 20000 Standard:
Resource details
A Server Cluster
16. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.
Inherent Risk
Input validation checking
Employee termination process
OSI Layer 6: Presentation
17. The party that performs strategic planning - addresses near-term and long-term requirements aligning business objectives - and technology strategies.
OSI: Transport Layer
A Compliance audit
An Operational Audit
The Steering Committee
18. What type of testing is performed to determine if control procedures have proper design and are operating properly?
CPU
A gate process
Network Layer Protocols
Compliance Testing
19. The annual expected loss to an asset. It is calculated as the single loss expectancy (SLE) X the annualized rate of occurrence (ARO.)
IT executives and the Board of Directors
The audit program
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
Precision means
20. The purpose of an auditor doing interviews - To observe personnel to better understand their discipline - as well as ______________.
Options for Risk Treatment
Organizational culture and maturity
Transport Layer Protocols
Information security policy
21. 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.
Incident Management
Stay current with technology
Inherent Risk
Hash
22. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.
TCP/IP Network Model
OSI Layer 7: Application
Project Management Strategies
The best approach for identifying high risk areas for an audit
23. What type of testing is performed to verify the accuracy and integrity of transactions as they flow through a system?
Substantive Testing
A Virtual Server
Blade Computer Architecture
Power system controls
24. Guide program execution through organization of resources and development of clear project objectives.
less than 24 hours
Stop-or-go Sampling
Project Management Strategies
OSI Layer 7: Application
25. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
Sampling
Attribute Sampling
A Compliance audit
26. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Framework (3.) Reporting to External Parties (4.) Evaluation Tools
objective and unbiased
Volumes of COSO framework
Categories of risk treatment
TCP/IP Transport Layer
27. 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
A Forensic Audit
A Problem
CPU
28. Deliver messages from one station to another on the same network or on different networks. Messaging at this layer is not guaranteed.
Network Layer Protocols
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
TCP/IP Internet Layer
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
29. A representation of how closely a sample represents an entire population.
TCP/IP Network Model
IT executives and the Board of Directors
Precision means
Confidence coefficient
30. 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?
A Server Cluster
Structural fires and transportation accidents
Notify the Audit Committee
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
31. 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
A Forensic Audit
OSI: Data Link Layer
Sampling Risk
Antivirus software on the email servers
32. (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
Three Types of Controls
Structural fires and transportation accidents
OSI: Physical Layer
Data Link Layer Standards
33. A CMM helps an organization to _______________ - which is an important first step to any large-scale process improvement effort.
Elements of the COSO pyramid
Buffers
Assess the maturity of its business processes
Employee termination process
34. To communication security policies - procedures - and other security-related information to an organization's employees.
Attribute Sampling
Dimensions of the COSO cube
Security Awareness program
BCP Plans
35. A collection of two or more servers that is designed to appear as a single server.
Formal waterfall
Server cluster
Power system controls
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
36. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.
IT Strategy
Judgmental sampling
Input validation checking
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
37. 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.
TCP/IP Link Layer
Foreign Key
Examples of IT General Controls
A Cold Site
38. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time
Business impact analysis
An Operational Audit
ISO 20000 Standard:
Statement of Impact
39. 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.
Balanced Scorecard
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
The Requirements
Inform the auditee
40. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.
Notify the Audit Committee
Business impact analysis
ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
Substantive Testing
41. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.
The Business Process Life Cycle
A Virtual Server
An Operational Audit
Compliance Testing
42. 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.
The Requirements
Project change request
A Service Provider audit
Personnel involved in the requirements phase of a software development project
43. 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
IT Service Management
Vulnerability in the organization's PBX
Discovery Sampling
Types of sampling an auditor can perform.
44. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Governance and control framework (3.) Control Objectives (4.) Management Guidelines (5.) Implementation Guide (6.) IT Assurance Guide
Service Continuity Management
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
Deming Cycle
Elements of the COBIT Framework
45. 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
A Compliance audit
The Business Process Life Cycle
Inherent Risk
The Software Program Library
46. Critical Path Methodology helps a project manager determine which activities are on a project's critical list - ________________________.
Blade Computer Architecture
Volumes of COSO framework
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
Disaster Recovery
47. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.
Substantive Testing (test of transaction integrity)
TCP/IP Network Model
The first step in a business impact analysis
Blade Computer Architecture
48. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.
OSI: Network Layer
Grid Computing
Attribute Sampling
Application Controls
49. Focuses on: maintaining service availability with the least disruption to standard operating parameters during an event
Business Continuity
Application Layer protocols
Audit Methodologies
Substantive Testing
50. 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
More difficult to perform
Department Charters
The BCP process
Substantive Testing