CA Final ISCA Key Topics May 2017



Students are suggested to focus more on the below topics, although, others topics forming part of the syllabus also needs to be prepared:

Governance Concepts:




Business Governance Dimension

5 Marks

IT Steering Committee

5 Marks

COBIT 5 Enablers

6 Marks

Management Practices for Evaluating Internal Control

4 Marks


IS Concepts:


MIS and its Limitations

5 Marks

Components of an EIS

4 Marks

Transaction Processing Systems

5 Marks


Protection of Information Systems


Preventive Vs Boundary Controls

5 Marks

Data Integrity Policies

4 Marks

Cyber Fraud Techniques

5 Marks

Asynchronous Attacks

4 Marks

Trojan Horse, Worms and Time Bomb

4 Marks


BCP and DRP


Objectives of BCP

5 Marks

Emergency Vs Recovery Plan

4 Marks

Hot Ste Vs Warn Site

4 Marks

DRP Document Features

5 Marks


Acquisition of IS


Spiral Vs Waterfall Model

5 Marks

SDLC

5 Marks

Characteristics of Good Coded Program

4 Marks

Black Box Vs White Box Testing

5 Marks

Activities involved in Successful conversion of IS

4 Marks


Auditing of IS


Types of IS Audits

5 Marks

Snapshots, Audit Hooks

4 Marks

Continuous Audit Techniques

5 Marks


IT Regulatory Issues


Use of E-Records in Govt Organisations

5 Marks

Section 69 of IT Act

5 Marks

Vision of National Cyber Security Policy 2013

4 Marks

Service Strategy of ITIL

4 Marks


Emerging Technologies


Private Cloud

5 Marks

SaaS Vs PaaS

5 Marks

BYOD, Web 3.0, Hybrid Cloud

4 Marks

Green IT

5 Marks

Security Issues in Cloud Computing

5 Marks


Disclaimer: The above focused topics are based on the trend of past papers. User discretion is advised.


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Rupesh is a qualified CA (First Attempt) and has a Diploma in International Financial Reporting from ACCA UK. Currently, Rupesh is working as an Associate Manager - Business Finance at Infosys Ltd. and is responsible for revenue assurance function for Healthcare, Life Science, Insurancevertical as well as Infosys ... Read more

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