CA Final Paper-6 ISCA MAY 2016 - Most Important Tested Areas

INFORMATION SYSTEMS CONTROL AND AUDIT MOST IMPORTANT TESTED AREAS – MAY 2016 All topics of study material is important. Here with I am highlighting priority areas for study Highlighted portion are Most Important Compiled by CHAKRAVARTHI MURALI – “Best of Luck and Wish you a Grand Success in Life”  [ 1 Arrangement of Chapters based on weightage of marks Chapter – I – Concept of Governance (18 to 22 Marks)  Enterprise Governance framework (and) major benefit of governance  Key benefits of GEIT  Best practices of corporate governcnce  Describe 4 contents of annual control report of management  Internal control as per COSO  4 broad classifiction of strategic planning  Key Management Practices - Aligning IT strategy with enterprise strategy  Meaning of Asset, Vulnerability, Threat, Exposure, Likelihood, Attack and risk  Risk Management Strategies  Key Management Practices - Risk Management  COBIT 5 – Component, Benefits and Enablers  Key Matrics for assessing compliance process  Evaluating IT Governance structure and practice by internal auditor  Areas of review by internal auditor as a part of review of GRC  Key Management Practices for assessing and evaluating internal control Chapter – III – Protection of Information of Systems (18 to 22 Marks)  Information security objective (and) what information is sensitive  Information security policy and their hierarchy  Critical control lacking in a computerized environment  Impact of technology on internal control  Preventive, Detective, Corrective and compensatory control  Common physical access control technique  Asynchronous attacks – various types  Six activity of system development management controls  Boundary control – Techniques  Access control mechanism – 3 steps  Date base control – Update and Report control  Various output controls  Six caterories of integrity controls (and) Data interity policies  Financial control – Techniques  Impact of cyber frauds on enterprises  Techniques’ to commit cyber fraud INFORMATION SYSTEMS CONTROL AND AUDIT MOST IMPORTANT TESTED AREAS – MAY 2016 All topics of study material is important. Here with I am highlighting priority areas for study Highlighted portion are Most Important Compiled by CHAKRAVARTHI MURALI – “Best of Luck and Wish you a Grand Success in Life”  [ 2 Chapter – VI – Audit of Information Systems (18 to 22 Marks)  Effect of computer on audit  Set of skills expected with an IS Auditor  5 types/categories of IS Audits  6 Stages of information system audit  Important task of auditor as part of preliminary evaluation  Legal consideration and audit stansard as part of preliminary review  4 steps to be followed for risk based approach and 3 categories of risk  Inherent limitation of an audit  SCARF – Techniques  Continuous and intermittent simulation  Audit trail objective  Accounting & Operational audit trail – Input & Communication control  Understanding the layers and related audit issues Chapter – II – Information systems concepts (14 to 18 Marks)  Information system attributes  Important characteristics of CBIS  TPS – Key activities, Components, basic features  Knowledge level system – (i) OAS; (ii) KMS  MIS – Major misconception; Pre-requiste  DSS – Characteristics  EIS – Characteristics  MIS – Constraints  Element of core banking system Chapter – V – Development of system (12 to 16 Marks)  Prototying & Agile model  Prototyping model strength and weaknesses  System requirement specification – objectives and documentation  Fact finding techniques  Analysis of present system  System desigining  Method of validating vendor proposal  Good coded program – characteristics  Unit testing & System testing  Implementation strategies  Implementation activities  System Maintenance INFORMATION SYSTEMS CONTROL AND AUDIT MOST IMPORTANT TESTED AREAS – MAY 2016 All topics of study material is important. Here with I am highlighting priority areas for study Highlighted portion are Most Important Compiled by CHAKRAVARTHI MURALI – “Best of Luck and Wish you a Grand Success in Life”  [ 3 Chapter – IV – Business Continuity Planning ( 9 to 12 Marks)  Meaning, Objective and Goals of Business Continuity Planning  3 advantages of BCM & BCM policy objectives  Methodology of BCP & Business Impact Analysis  Component of BCM process diagram  BCM documentation and records  BCM information collection process  Short notes on risk assessment  Maintenance tasks undertaken in development of BCP  Types of back-up (and) back-up options  DRP Documentation  Sound methodology of business resumption planning Chapter – VII – Information Technolgy Issues ( 9 to 12 Marks)  Objective of the IT Act  Section 43, 44, 66A, 79  SEBI & RBI – system audit  PDCA cycle  Why company adopt ISO 27001 and Its key benefits Chapter – VIII – Emerging Technologies ( 9 to 12 Marks)  Cloud computing – Characteristics  Cloud computing – security and implementation issues  Mobile computing - Benefits  Green computing  Web 2.0 & Major components  Categories of social networks Compiled by CHAKRAVARTHI MURALI Author of Direct Tax Laws Quick Insight Entire Portion is covered in less than 200 Pages 100% Exam Oriented Approach. Easy to complete portion in a week who is in Emploment and have time constrains. Send an e-mail to quickinsightdt@gmail.com for sample chapters “Best of Luck and Wish you a Grand Success in Life”