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Information Systems Auditing Process
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A business manager asks the internal IS audit team to test a newly acquired payment platform and requests administrator access for the review. What should the audit lead establish first?
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Exam Syllabus
Core Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) topics
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Governance and Management of IT
Map external obligations | Clarify governance decision rights | Test strategy alignment | Follow the policy hierarchy
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Information Systems Acquisition, Development, and Implementation
Challenge the project business case | Audit the development method | Design controls into the system | Decide whether a system is ready
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Information Systems Operations and Business Resilience
Trace infrastructure dependencies | Follow the asset life cycle | Control automated jobs | Reconcile system interfaces
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Protection of Information Assets
Assess the security program | Protect facilities and equipment | Control identity and privilege | Segment and defend networks
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FAQ
Common questions about Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
How does an auditor distinguish control design from operating effectiveness?
Design asks whether the control, if performed as described, could address the stated risk. Operating effectiveness asks whether it actually ran, at the required time and for the relevant population. A documented rule requiring independent approval before production changes may be well designed. If three sampled releases received approval only after deployment, those exceptions show an operating failure. If the rule allows the developer to approve their own release, the design itself is weak, even when every approval is recorded.
How do RTO and RPO guide a resilience assessment?
Recovery time objective (RTO) is the maximum target time to restore a service after disruption. Recovery point objective (RPO) is the maximum target amount of data loss measured in time. Suppose a business impact analysis sets a hypothetical RTO of four hours and RPO of 30 minutes. A tested restoration taking three hours meets the time target. If the newest usable backup is two hours old, it misses the data loss target. Both results matter; meeting one target does not compensate for missing the other.
What changes when an audited service runs in the cloud?
The auditor maps each control to the party responsible for it under the service arrangement, then tests the evidence for that responsibility. A provider may operate the physical facility and underlying infrastructure while the customer controls user access, data classification and some configuration. Provider assurance reports can inform the assessment, but their scope, period, exceptions and customer responsibilities must match the service being audited. A provider report covering physical security does not establish that the customer removed a departed employee’s access.
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