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Isaca CISA Practice Test 66

Question 650

During a regulatory readiness review at a municipal government, the IS auditor learns that a supplier dependency is omitted from the business continuity exercise. The affected operation supports citizen service accounts and public records. Public accountability and essential service access are affected. During fieldwork, what is the BEST focused test of this condition?

  1. Trace sample transactions end to end and reconcile control totals, acknowledgements and retry or error queues.
  2. Inspect job definitions and dependencies, simulate retries and failures, and trace scheduler logs to reconciled business totals.
  3. Conduct an approved end-to-end site-failure rehearsal using current runbooks, dependencies and measured recovery times.
  4. Review plan currency, contact paths, alternate processes and cross-party exercises with measurable success criteria.

Explanation

Correct Answer

D:

Correct. Review plan currency, contact paths, alternate processes and cross-party exercises with measurable success criteria. The procedure directly tests the reported condition that a supplier dependency is omitted from the business continuity exercise. A defensible IS audit conclusion requires relevant and reliable evidence from the actual control population and period.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Not the most direct fieldwork procedure for these facts. It changes a different feature than evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion.

B:

Not the most direct fieldwork procedure for these facts. That change would not implement evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion.

C:

Not the most direct fieldwork procedure for these facts. The configuration must instead establish evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion.

Question 651

During a regulatory readiness review at a municipal government, the IS auditor learns that a supplier dependency is omitted from the business continuity exercise. The affected operation supports citizen service accounts and public records. Public accountability and essential service access are affected. Management states that remediation is complete. Which evidence BEST supports closing this issue?

  1. An accurate lifecycle inventory and sampled disposal records prove accountable custody, licensed use and validated data removal.
  2. A timed restore or failover test confirms users can perform critical transactions with approved RTO and RPO outcomes.
  3. Observed exercises show accountable teams can activate workable alternate operations and communicate within approved thresholds.
  4. Source and target totals and controlled replay tests show complete, accurate, once-only processing of messages.

Explanation

Correct Answer

C:

Correct. Observed exercises show accountable teams can activate workable alternate operations and communicate within approved thresholds. This is stronger than a manager's verbal assurance because it can be checked against the observed issue that a supplier dependency is omitted from the business continuity exercise. The reviewer must verify the remediation period and scope.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Not the strongest closure evidence for this case. That result could pass without demonstrating evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion.

B:

Not the strongest closure evidence for this case. Acceptance here depends on observing evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion, not only that test.

D:

Not the strongest closure evidence for this case. The relevant success criterion is evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion; this measures a different function.

Question 652

During a post-incident audit at a retail marketplace, the IS auditor learns that a crisis communication tree has never been tested outside office hours. The affected operation supports customer checkout and order fulfillment. Customer transactions and market trust depend on effective control. Which risk should the auditor treat as the PRIMARY concern arising from these facts?

  1. Uncontrolled asset acquisition, custody or disposal can create cost, compliance and data exposure.
  2. Uncontrolled user-managed systems can bypass approved security, integrity, continuity and change controls.
  3. Hidden or inaccurate infrastructure dependencies may create single points of failure and impede impact analysis.
  4. Continuity plans may be unusable under actual disruption because people, procedures and dependencies were not rehearsed.

Explanation

Correct Answer

D:

Correct. Continuity plans may be unusable under actual disruption because people, procedures and dependencies were not rehearsed. The described exception is: a crisis communication tree has never been tested outside office hours. This risk ties the observation to the business significance of customer checkout and order fulfillment, rather than treating management's claim as independent assurance.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Uncontrolled asset acquisition, custody or disposal can create cost, compliance and data exposure. Recurrence here depends on evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion, not this safeguard.

B:

Uncontrolled user-managed systems can bypass approved security, integrity, continuity and change controls. That protection can exist while evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion is still missing.

C:

Hidden or inaccurate infrastructure dependencies may create single points of failure and impede impact analysis. It protects a different risk than the evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion requirement.

Question 653

During a post-incident audit at a retail marketplace, the IS auditor learns that a crisis communication tree has never been tested outside office hours. The affected operation supports customer checkout and order fulfillment. Customer transactions and market trust depend on effective control. What test BEST distinguishes effective control operation from an unsupported assertion?

  1. Trace a sample of critical business services to actual compute, network, storage and supporting service components.
  2. Inventory critical end-user applications and test ownership, access, versioning, calculations and backup arrangements.
  3. Inspect job definitions and dependencies, simulate retries and failures, and trace scheduler logs to reconciled business totals.
  4. Review plan currency, contact paths, alternate processes and cross-party exercises with measurable success criteria.

Explanation

Correct Answer

D:

Correct. Review plan currency, contact paths, alternate processes and cross-party exercises with measurable success criteria. The procedure directly tests the reported condition that a crisis communication tree has never been tested outside office hours. A defensible IS audit conclusion requires relevant and reliable evidence from the actual control population and period.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Not the most direct fieldwork procedure for these facts. The evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion prerequisite remains unaddressed.

B:

Not the most direct fieldwork procedure for these facts. It changes a different feature than evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion.

C:

Not the most direct fieldwork procedure for these facts. That change would not implement evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion.

Question 654

During a post-incident audit at a retail marketplace, the IS auditor learns that a crisis communication tree has never been tested outside office hours. The affected operation supports customer checkout and order fulfillment. Customer transactions and market trust depend on effective control. What result would best demonstrate sustained operation of the corrected control?

  1. Observed exercises show accountable teams can activate workable alternate operations and communicate within approved thresholds.
  2. An accurate lifecycle inventory and sampled disposal records prove accountable custody, licensed use and validated data removal.
  3. Documented EUC ownership and sampled access, calculation review and recovery tests demonstrate proportionate controls.
  4. Verified inventory and dependency tests identify the critical components and their failover or support owners.

Explanation

Correct Answer

A:

Correct. Observed exercises show accountable teams can activate workable alternate operations and communicate within approved thresholds. This is stronger than a manager's verbal assurance because it can be checked against the observed issue that a crisis communication tree has never been tested outside office hours. The reviewer must verify the remediation period and scope.

Incorrect Answers

B:

Not the strongest closure evidence for this case. That result could pass without demonstrating evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion.

C:

Not the strongest closure evidence for this case. Acceptance here depends on observing evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion, not only that test.

D:

Not the strongest closure evidence for this case. It does not establish the requested evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion outcome.

Question 655

During a routine controls assessment at a regional hospital, the IS auditor learns that a recovery site has enough hosts but no reachable DNS after primary-site loss. The affected operation supports patient-care scheduling and claims processing. Healthcare service continuity and protected records are at stake. Where should the audit team focus its principal finding?

  1. Inadequate response and root-cause practices can prolong service disruption and allow repeat incidents.
  2. Uncontrolled scheduling, retry and job monitoring can cause incomplete, duplicate or unreported processing.
  3. Disaster recovery claims may fail when infrastructure, credentials, dependencies or business acceptance are omitted from tests.
  4. Hidden or inaccurate infrastructure dependencies may create single points of failure and impede impact analysis.

Explanation

Correct Answer

C:

Correct. Disaster recovery claims may fail when infrastructure, credentials, dependencies or business acceptance are omitted from tests. The described exception is: a recovery site has enough hosts but no reachable DNS after primary-site loss. This risk ties the observation to the business significance of patient-care scheduling and claims processing, rather than treating management's claim as independent assurance.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Inadequate response and root-cause practices can prolong service disruption and allow repeat incidents. That change would not implement evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion.

B:

Uncontrolled scheduling, retry and job monitoring can cause incomplete, duplicate or unreported processing. The configuration must instead establish evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion.

D:

Hidden or inaccurate infrastructure dependencies may create single points of failure and impede impact analysis. It changes a different feature than evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion.

Question 656

During a routine controls assessment at a regional hospital, the IS auditor learns that a recovery site has enough hosts but no reachable DNS after primary-site loss. The affected operation supports patient-care scheduling and claims processing. Healthcare service continuity and protected records are at stake. Which substantive or control test most directly addresses the observation?

  1. Trace sample transactions end to end and reconcile control totals, acknowledgements and retry or error queues.
  2. Conduct an approved end-to-end site-failure rehearsal using current runbooks, dependencies and measured recovery times.
  3. Trace incident samples through prioritization, escalation, restoration evidence and linkage to problem investigations.
  4. Trace a sample of critical business services to actual compute, network, storage and supporting service components.

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

Correct. Conduct an approved end-to-end site-failure rehearsal using current runbooks, dependencies and measured recovery times. The procedure directly tests the reported condition that a recovery site has enough hosts but no reachable DNS after primary-site loss. A defensible IS audit conclusion requires relevant and reliable evidence from the actual control population and period.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Not the most direct fieldwork procedure for these facts. The configuration must instead establish evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion.

C:

Not the most direct fieldwork procedure for these facts. It changes a different feature than evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion.

D:

Not the most direct fieldwork procedure for these facts. That change would not implement evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion.

Question 657

During a routine controls assessment at a regional hospital, the IS auditor learns that a recovery site has enough hosts but no reachable DNS after primary-site loss. The affected operation supports patient-care scheduling and claims processing. Healthcare service continuity and protected records are at stake. What outcome would provide the STRONGEST evidence that the identified gap is resolved?

  1. Verified inventory and dependency tests identify the critical components and their failover or support owners.
  2. A timed restore or failover test confirms users can perform critical transactions with approved RTO and RPO outcomes.
  3. Time-stamped records and repeated-incident trend checks show timely service restoration and action on root causes.
  4. Controlled test runs and monitored production samples show correct sequencing, idempotent retries and timely failure escalation.

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

Correct. A timed restore or failover test confirms users can perform critical transactions with approved RTO and RPO outcomes. This is stronger than a manager's verbal assurance because it can be checked against the observed issue that a recovery site has enough hosts but no reachable DNS after primary-site loss. The reviewer must verify the remediation period and scope.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Not the strongest closure evidence for this case. It does not establish the requested evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion outcome.

C:

Not the strongest closure evidence for this case. That result could pass without demonstrating evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion.

D:

Not the strongest closure evidence for this case. Acceptance here depends on observing evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion, not only that test.

Question 658

During a payment-platform modernization at a payment clearing organization, the IS auditor learns that a disaster recovery runbook assumes unavailable credentials stored at the primary site. The affected operation supports merchant settlement and reconciliation. Finance and settlement integrity depend on this operation. What control exposure MOST directly explains why this observation is significant?

  1. Uncontrolled asset acquisition, custody or disposal can create cost, compliance and data exposure.
  2. Uncontrolled user-managed systems can bypass approved security, integrity, continuity and change controls.
  3. Uncontrolled scheduling, retry and job monitoring can cause incomplete, duplicate or unreported processing.
  4. Disaster recovery claims may fail when infrastructure, credentials, dependencies or business acceptance are omitted from tests.

Explanation

Correct Answer

D:

Correct. Disaster recovery claims may fail when infrastructure, credentials, dependencies or business acceptance are omitted from tests. The described exception is: a disaster recovery runbook assumes unavailable credentials stored at the primary site. This risk ties the observation to the business significance of merchant settlement and reconciliation, rather than treating management's claim as independent assurance.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Uncontrolled asset acquisition, custody or disposal can create cost, compliance and data exposure. It changes a different feature than evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion.

B:

Uncontrolled user-managed systems can bypass approved security, integrity, continuity and change controls. That change would not implement evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion.

C:

Uncontrolled scheduling, retry and job monitoring can cause incomplete, duplicate or unreported processing. The configuration must instead establish evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion.

Question 659

During a payment-platform modernization at a payment clearing organization, the IS auditor learns that a disaster recovery runbook assumes unavailable credentials stored at the primary site. The affected operation supports merchant settlement and reconciliation. Finance and settlement integrity depend on this operation. Which evidence-gathering approach is MOST aligned with the recorded exposure?

  1. Inventory critical end-user applications and test ownership, access, versioning, calculations and backup arrangements.
  2. Conduct an approved end-to-end site-failure rehearsal using current runbooks, dependencies and measured recovery times.
  3. Trace sample transactions end to end and reconcile control totals, acknowledgements and retry or error queues.
  4. Reconcile procurement and inventory records to physical custody, license entitlements and sanitization or disposal records.

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

Correct. Conduct an approved end-to-end site-failure rehearsal using current runbooks, dependencies and measured recovery times. The procedure directly tests the reported condition that a disaster recovery runbook assumes unavailable credentials stored at the primary site. A defensible IS audit conclusion requires relevant and reliable evidence from the actual control population and period.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Not the most direct fieldwork procedure for these facts. That result could pass without demonstrating evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion.

C:

Not the most direct fieldwork procedure for these facts. It does not establish the requested evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion outcome.

D:

Not the most direct fieldwork procedure for these facts. The relevant success criterion is evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion; this measures a different function.

Question 660

During a payment-platform modernization at a payment clearing organization, the IS auditor learns that a disaster recovery runbook assumes unavailable credentials stored at the primary site. The affected operation supports merchant settlement and reconciliation. Finance and settlement integrity depend on this operation. Which evidence would BEST support a conclusion that the exposure has been addressed?

  1. Controlled test runs and monitored production samples show correct sequencing, idempotent retries and timely failure escalation.
  2. An accurate lifecycle inventory and sampled disposal records prove accountable custody, licensed use and validated data removal.
  3. A timed restore or failover test confirms users can perform critical transactions with approved RTO and RPO outcomes.
  4. Documented EUC ownership and sampled access, calculation review and recovery tests demonstrate proportionate controls.

Explanation

Correct Answer

C:

Correct. A timed restore or failover test confirms users can perform critical transactions with approved RTO and RPO outcomes. This is stronger than a manager's verbal assurance because it can be checked against the observed issue that a disaster recovery runbook assumes unavailable credentials stored at the primary site. The reviewer must verify the remediation period and scope.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Not the strongest closure evidence for this case. Acceptance here depends on observing evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion, not only that test.

B:

Not the strongest closure evidence for this case. It does not establish the requested evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion outcome.

D:

Not the strongest closure evidence for this case. That result could pass without demonstrating evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion.