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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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1. 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
Six steps of the Release Management process
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
Inform the auditee
2. 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
Judgmental sampling
IT Service Management
Audit Methodologies
Compliance Testing
3. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - as the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient.
Sampling Risk
A Server Cluster
Emergency Changes
Incident Management
4. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.
Gantt Chart
Dimensions of the COSO cube
A Compliance audit
TCP/IP Transport Layer
5. A representation of how closely a sample represents an entire population.
Project change request
The Eight Types of Audits
Application Layer protocols
Precision means
6. (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
Audit logging
Statistical Sampling
Dimensions of the COSO cube
Examples of Application Controls
7. 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
A Server Cluster
Reduced sign-on
IT standards are not being reviewed often enough
The appropriate role of an IS auditor in a control self-assessment
8. 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
The Business Process Life Cycle
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
A Server Cluster
9. 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 _________________.
Tolerable Error Rate
Entire password for an encryption key
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
10. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems
Application Layer protocols
Service Level Management
The first step in a business impact analysis
Dimensions of the COSO cube
11. A collection of two or more servers that is designed to appear as a single server.
Business impact analysis
Server cluster
IT Service Management
Background checks performed
12. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.
WAN Protocols
IT Strategy
Criticality analysis
An Integrated Audit
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.
Sample Standard Deviation
Server cluster
COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)
Testing activities
14. An estimate that expresses the percent of errors or exceptions that may exist in an entire population
Documentation and interview personnel
Stay current with technology
Audit logging
Expected Error Rate
15. A critical application is backed up once per day. The recovery point objective (RPO) for an application that is backed up once per day cannot be ________.
The 7 phases and their order in the SDLC
less than 24 hours
Organizational culture and maturity
The availability of IT systems
16. External auditors are needed under these conditions: (1.) When the organization ________________________. (2.) Some regulations and standards require external - independent auditors
The Eight Types of Audits
Recovery time objective
A Financial Audit
Lacks specific expertise or resources to conduct an internal audit
17. Who is responsible for imposing an IT governance model encompassing IT strategy - information security - and formal enterprise architectural mandates?
A Cold Site
IT Services Financial Management
IT executives and the Board of Directors
Statement of Impact
18. 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
An Administrative
Precision means
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery
Notify the Audit Committee
19. 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.
Audit logging
Examples of IT General Controls
Cloud computing
Sampling Risk
20. 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.
Project change request
Inform the auditee
The Business Process Life Cycle
A Service Provider audit
21. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance
Options for Risk Treatment
Department Charters
Registers
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
22. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.
Configuration Management
OSI Layer 7: Application
The availability of IT systems
The two Categories of Controls
23. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.
Business impact analysis
ISO 20000 Standard:
Service Continuity Management
Structural fires and transportation accidents
24. 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
ISO 20000 Standard:
OSI Layer 5: Session
A Virtual Server
Insourcing
25. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records
The 5 types of Evidence that the auditor will collect during an audit.
Employee termination process
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
Inherent Risk
26. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration
The typical Configuration Items in Configuration Management
Data Link Layer Standards
Control Risk
Elements of the COBIT Framework
27. Critical Path Methodology helps a project manager determine which activities are on a project's critical list - ________________________.
A Compliance audit
A Server Cluster
The Release process
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
28. The main hardware component of a computer system - which executes instructions in computer programs.
Hash
CPU
Configuration Management
A Cold Site
29. The memory locations in the CPU where arithmetic values are stored.
Registers
Cloud computing
A Server Cluster
Application Layer protocols
30. The process of recording the configuration of IT systems. Each configuration setting is known in ITSM parlance as a Configuration Item.
Configuration Management
Precision means
List of systems examined
Business Continuity
31. Guide program execution through organization of resources and development of clear project objectives.
Project Management Strategies
Examples of Application Controls
Audit Methodologies
Foreign Key
32. (1.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication
The Release process
Geographic location
An Administrative
Elements of the COSO pyramid
33. 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.
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
OSI Layer 5: Session
OSI: Transport Layer
A Problem
34. 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.
IT Services Financial Management
Stratified Sampling
Project change request
Power system controls
35. What type of testing is performed to determine if control procedures have proper design and are operating properly?
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
Compliance Testing
A Financial Audit
Vulnerability in the organization's PBX
36. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.
OSI: Physical Layer
Structural fires and transportation accidents
A Sample Mean
TCP/IP Link Layer
37. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider
Sampling Risk
Foreign Key
OSI: Network Layer
The Eight Types of Audits
38. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.
Substantive Testing
A Server Cluster
Sampling
Detection Risk
39. 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.
Critical Path Methodology
The Release process
The 4-item focus of a Balanced Scorecard
ITIL definition of PROBLEM
40. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application
Documentation and interview personnel
Service Level Management
TCP/IP Network Model
To identify the tasks that are responsible for project delays
41. To ensure that input values are within established ranges - of the correct character types - and free of harmful contents.
Criticality analysis
Split custody
Input validation checking
Annualized Loss Expectance (ALE)
42. Used to measure the relative maturity of an organization and its processes.
Capability Maturity Model
Controls
Control Unit
Segregation of duties issue in a high value process
43. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.
Application Layer protocols
(1.) Man-made (2.) Natural
The Requirements
Current and most up-to-date
44. 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.
Hash
IT Strategy
The Release process
The Eight Types of Audits
45. The highest number of errors that can exist without a result being materially misstated.
Grid Computing
TCP/IP Link Layer
Audit logging
Tolerable Error Rate
46. An active - instance of a server operating system running on a machine that is designed to house two or more such virtual servers.
Grid Computing
Current and most up-to-date
A Virtual Server
A Server Cluster
47. A sampling technique used to permit sampling to stop at the earliest possible time. This technique is used when the auditor feels that there is a low risk or low rate of exceptions in the population.
Cloud computing
Stop-or-go Sampling
Background checks performed
The Eight Types of Audits
48. 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.
An Operational Audit
The first step in a business impact analysis
Sampling
Gantt Chart
49. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them
Inherent Risk
Risk Management
Organizational culture and maturity
IT Strategy
50. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.
Release management
ITIL definition of CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Security Awareness program
TCP/IP Transport Layer packet delivery