IIA IIA-CIA-Part3 Exam Prep
Certified Internal Auditor - Part 3, Business Analysis and Information Technology (Page 5 )

• The Accrue liability on product receipt flag controls whether a liability is accrued and posted at the time of receiving the item.
• If this checkbox is unchecked, receipts won’t create postings to the Product receipt journal. Enabling it ensures the system posts inventory value and the vendor liability when the item is received.

• Go to the Item model group setup form.
• Enable (check) Accrue liability on product receipt.
• Save.

• The other option, Include physical value, affects how physical value is handled but is not the direct cause of postings to the product receipt journal. If issues persist after enabling accrual, you may need to verify related posting definitions or journal setup.

• Active vs passive: Active assessment involves actively scanning targets by sending probes/packets to identify hosts, services, and vulnerabilities. Passive assessment observes traffic without probing.
• External vs internal: External assessment is about testing from outside the network perimeter; the scenario doesn’t specify external vantage, only that tools are identifying hosts/services across the enterprise network.

• A: Security groups do not control traffic to an S3 gateway endpoint in this way. Gateway endpoints are configured through route tables.
• B: An S3 bucket policy may be needed for authorization, but the error specifically indicates a connectivity or endpoint-routing problem.
• C: Glue connection settings do not require a fully qualified domain name to resolve this endpoint issue.

• IaaS: You manage the virtual machine’s operating system, configuration, applications, and data. Azure manages the physical infrastructure and virtualization platform.
• PaaS: You deploy applications without managing the underlying operating system or servers.
• SaaS: You consume a complete application managed by the provider, such as Microsoft 365.

• The app on EC2 connects to Aurora using DB credentials stored on the instance. Secrets Manager centralizes these credentials and can rotate them automatically, eliminating manual updates on each EC2 host.
• Automatic rotation reduces operational overhead and enhances security because credentials are rotated on a schedule without code changes.
• The app can retrieve the current secret at runtime (e.g., via the AWS SDK) and use it to authenticate to Aurora, avoiding reliance on locally stored files.

• B (Parameter Store) can store secrets but lacks seamless built-in rotation for database credentials like Secrets Manager; rotation often requires more custom work.
• C (S3) would require complex tooling to rotate and securely fetch credentials and still risks exposure if access policies aren’t perfect.
• D (Encrypted EBS volumes) would store credentials locally on each instance and does not automate rotation or centralized management.

• Why: After listing all resources, you need to assign who is responsible for each task. A RACI chart (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed) documents these roles for every activity.

• What RACI means:

• Why the others aren’t suitable here:

• Quick example: Task "Create user authentication module" — Responsible: Developer, Accountable: Tech Lead, Consulted: Security Architect, Informed: PM.

• Wiping securely overwrites the drive so the original data cannot reasonably be recovered. It is generally less expensive than physically destroying the device.
• Recycling could expose the data if the drive is not securely erased first.
• Shredding physically destroys the drive and is effective, but usually more costly and prevents reuse.
• Deletion only removes file references; it is not a secure sanitization method.

• Transact-SQL (T-SQL) is used to query relational data in Azure SQL Database, not telemetry data from monitoring services.
• To analyze monitoring data from Azure SQL Database Intelligent Insights and Azure Application Insights, you should use the Kusto Query Language (KQL) in Azure Monitor Logs/Log Analytics (and in Application Insights Analytics).
• Using KQL lets you query telemetry tables such as requests, dependencies, pageViews, and customEvents (from App Insights) and any integrated monitoring data you’ve ingested into Log Analytics.

• Ensure Intelligent Insights and Application Insights data is available in a Log Analytics workspace or accessible via Application Insights Analytics.
• Go to Azure Monitor > Logs (or Application Insights > Analytics) and write KQL queries, e.g.:

• Context: You’ve enabled auditing in Dataverse and need to trim audit data to free storage. The question asks which deletion options you can use.

• What the options typically mean:

• About the provided answer (A, C, D): The list includes “by column,” which isn’t a typical or supported way to purge audit data. The more plausible trio is A (by record), B (date range), and C (by table older than date). If the exam expects A, C, D, that seems incorrect or mis-stated in the source.

• Practical takeaway: To reduce audit storage, use per-record deletions, per-table purge by date, and/or date-range deletions as supported by the environment’s audit management UI or admin docs.

• Ablauf: Er wird in der gleichen Transaktion ausgeführt, bei der z. B. ein Datensatz erstellt oder aktualisiert wird. Der Benutzer wartet, bis der Workflow abgeschlossen ist.
• Stufen: Kann vor dem Vorgang (pre-operation) oder nach dem Vorgang (post-operation) laufen.
• Zweck: Sofortige Validierung oder Anpassung von Daten, ggf. auch das Verhindern eines Vorgangs, wenn Bedingungen nicht erfüllt sind.

• Automatisierte Flows (Power Automate, automatisierte/ Background Flows) laufen asynchron im Hintergrund, nachdem der Trigger erkannt wurde, und blockieren den Benutzer nicht.

• S3 Lifecycle rules automate actions such as transitioning objects to different storage classes or deleting old objects.
• S3 bucket policies control access permissions; they do not preserve earlier object versions.
• S3 server-side encryption protects data confidentiality by encrypting objects at rest, but it does not prevent deletion or overwriting.

• Accidental deletion or overwriting ? S3 Versioning
• Unauthorized access ? bucket policies and IAM
• Data encryption ? server-side encryption

• Use one Azure AD directory for the organization.
• Separate divisions with subscriptions and/or resource groups.
• Assign each division’s administrator appropriate Azure role-based access control (RBAC) permissions, scoped to their subscription or resource group.

• Custom domains
• 10 GB storage per web app
• Each app runs on dedicated compute
• Load balancing between instances is included
• Costs minimized

• Answer: A (Standard)

• Why:

• Note: In App Service, multiple apps in the same plan share compute resources. If you truly need isolation per app, you’d typically use separate App Service Plans, which increases cost beyond a single Standard plan.

1. Download the updated VPN client configuration package from the Azure VPN gateway.
2. Remove or update the existing VPN client configuration on the Windows 10 workstation.
3. Install the new package and reconnect.

• The correct option is A: Data architecture.

• Why: In the AWS CAF, the Platform perspective covers the technical foundation and architecture that enable cloud workloads to run reliably and efficiently. This includes how data is modeled, stored, and accessed across the enterprise—the core of data architecture.

• Quick mapping for the other options:

• Amazon GuardDuty: Detects suspicious activity and threats using security-related data sources; it is not primarily a software vulnerability scanner.
• Amazon Detective: Helps investigate and analyze the root cause of security findings after an event.
• Amazon Cognito: Provides user authentication and authorization for applications.

• Answer: D) Shadow IT

• Why: Shadow IT is when employees use unsanctioned tools or bypass IT controls (like the VPN) to access services, often without IT oversight. It’s an internal behavior, not an external attacker’s activity.

• Not these:

• Quick note: This creates risk due to lack of visibility and control. Mitigations include a defined approved-tools list, enforcing VPN usage, device management, and continuous monitoring.

• Enable the owner dimension

• Assign a standard costing inventory model

• Batch dimension tracks batches or lots, such as expiration or production batches. It does not identify inventory ownership.
• Moving average is a costing method, but it is not the required choice for this consignment configuration.

• Product Owner: May attend, but is not required unless also working as a Developer.
• Scrum Master: May attend to help facilitate or coach, but is not required.
• Developers: Must participate because the event is specifically for them.

• Event | search "error"
• Event | where EventType == "error"
• search in (Event) "error"

• Why: If an application on EC2 needs to call other AWS services, using an IAM role (attached to the EC2 instance as an instance profile) provides temporary, automatically rotated credentials. This avoids embedding access keys in the application.
• How it works: Create a role with the minimum required permissions, attach it to the EC2 instance, and let the AWS SDK used by the application retrieve credentials from the instance metadata service. The credentials rotate automatically and are scoped to the policy you define.
• Why not other options:

• Alice is co-resident on the same physical host and exploits shared hardware (the processor cache) to infer secrets. This is the classic definition of a side-channel attack—information leakage through implementation details (like timing or cache behavior) rather than by breaking a protocol or injecting code.

• Observing cache timing or access patterns to deduce cryptographic keys or plaintext data from the victim VM.

• Man-in-the-cloud attack: targets cloud trust/auth, not local hardware sharing.
• SQL injection: exploits input to run SQL commands, not a VM/caching vector.
• Service hijacking: takes control of a service, not about covert data leakage via shared hardware.

• Notice phrases like “shared hardware resources,” “co-resident,” or “cache”—these indicate a side-channel vector.

• B. Enable column profile — This turns on column profiling, which computes statistics like min and max for each column.
• C. Show column profile in details pane — This ensures the per-column profile is visible in the details pane.
• E. Enable details pane — This makes the details pane available so you can view the column profile there.

• A. Show column value distribution may help with distribution but isn’t specifically about min/max.
• D. Show column quality details shows data quality (valid/null counts), not min/max.

• S3 Versioning stores all versions of an object. If an object is overwritten or deleted, you can recover the previous version using its version ID.
• This protects against accidental deletion or overwriting because the original data remains accessible as an older version.
• How to enable:

• Practical notes:

• S3 Lifecycle rules: automate moving/expiring data, not specifically protection against deletion.
• S3 bucket policies: control access but don’t inherently preserve previous data.
• S3 server-side encryption: protects data at rest, not against deletion/overwrite.

• Answer: False. Agents and managers CAN create knowledge articles from Community questions.

• Why: In ServiceNow, a Community question can be converted into a Knowledge article using the Create Knowledge (or Convert to Knowledge) action. This allows what customers asked to become a reusable article for others.

• How it works (high level):

• Permissions: This ability depends on having the right roles/permissions (e.g., agents or knowledge managers). If you don’t see the option, check your role assignments or the knowledge-management configuration.

• Quick take: If a question in Community is valuable for others, a trained agent can turn it into a Knowledge article, making it available for self-service.

• B — AWS DataSync: Transfers data between storage systems, such as S3, file systems, and on-premises storage. It is not a marketplace or catalog for third-party datasets.
• C — Kinesis Data Streams and CodeCommit: CodeCommit is a source-code repository, not a third-party data provider. Kinesis is for streaming data ingestion.
• D — Kinesis Data Streams and ECR: ECR stores container images, not datasets. Kinesis does not provide access to ECR data as an external dataset source.

• Side loading means installing software from sources outside official or trusted repositories.
• This process can bring in malicious payloads because the installed software hasn’t been vetted. A rootkit is a type of malware that hides its presence and maintains privileged access, making it a prime risk when using untrusted sources.
• Why not the other options:

• Only install apps from trusted sources; verify signatures.
• Use application whitelisting and security controls to block sideloading.
• Keep systems updated and use anti-malware tools capable of detecting rootkits.

• Storage accounts: storage1, storage2, and storage3
• Log Analytics workspace: Analytics3

• Azure Backup reports can send the AzureBackupReports diagnostic log to eligible storage accounts. The storage account’s subscription and region do not have to match the Recovery Services vault, so all three listed storage accounts are valid.
• The Log Analytics workspace must be in the same region as the Recovery Services vault for this configuration. Vault1 and Analytics3 are both in West Europe, making Analytics3 the valid workspace.

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• Correct options: C and D.

• The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) security perspective focuses on capabilities to protect information and manage security risk.
• Observability (A) is primarily an operations/monitoring capability, not a core security capability under CAF.
• Incident and problem management (B) is IT service management/operations, not specifically a CAF security capability.
• Incident response (C) is a security-focused capability: detecting, containing, and recovering from security incidents.
• Infrastructure protection (D) involves applying security controls to protect the underlying infrastructure, which fits the security perspective.

powershell 
Get-AzureVM -ServiceName <service-name> -Name <vm-name> | 
  Set-AzureStaticVNetIP -IPAddress <private-ip> | 
  Update-AzureVM

• New-AzureRMVMConfig configures VM settings but does not itself assign the static IP.
• Set-AzureSubnet is not the appropriate cmdlet for assigning a VM’s private IP.
• The Azure portal option mentioned in the question was not the intended method for this older deployment model.
• Changing settings in Windows Network and Sharing Center is incorrect because Azure assigns the IP through the VM’s virtual network interface; manually configuring it inside the guest can cause conflicts.

• Phishing can map to two MITRE ATT&CK tactics depending on the attacker’s objective.

• Therefore, phishing isn’t confined to a single tactic; it can serve both Reconnaissance and Initial Access, which is why option D (Reconnaissance, Initial Access) is correct.

• The inference container image or built-in algorithm
• The location of model artifacts in Amazon S3
• IAM permissions through the execution role
• Optional environment variables and networking settings

1. Create AWS::SageMaker::Model
2. Create an AWS::SageMaker::EndpointConfig that references the model
3. Create AWS::SageMaker::Endpoint that references the endpoint configuration

• AWS::SageMaker::Endpoint hosts a model but does not define the model itself.
• AWS::SageMaker::NotebookInstance provides a development environment.
• AWS::SageMaker::Pipeline orchestrates ML workflow steps.

• The Scrum Guide specifies four required events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective. These events enable transparency, inspection, and adaptation.
• The other items listed are not mandatory under Scrum:

• IPv6 address types:

• The block FF00::/12 is a subset of the multicast space, so it represents multicast addresses.
• Therefore, this block forwards packets to a multicast address (to multiple receivers) rather than to a single unicast address.
• The other prefixes are unicast and would deliver to a single interface.

Flat organisation

• Few levels of management
• A wide span of control—managers supervise many employees
• Shorter communication channels
• More employee autonomy and quicker decisions
• Fewer formal promotion levels

Tall organisation

• Many levels of management
• A narrow span of control—managers supervise relatively few employees
• A clear hierarchy and reporting structure
• More formal supervision and communication channels
• More obvious promotion and career stages

• Equipment and hardware
• Facilities
• Inventory
• Backup media
• Supplies stored at an alternate or remote location

• Personal belongings of staff: Usually not organizational assets.
• DR line-item revenues: Revenue is a financial impact, not a physical asset.
• Cloud-based applications: These are primarily logical or information-processing assets, even though they depend on physical infrastructure.

• The AWS Support Concierge is a specialized team within Enterprise Support whose primary role is handling billing and account questions and helping with account setup and getting started.
• They are not the source for architecture guidance or development assistance; those services are provided by Technical Account Managers (TAMs) or Solutions Architects as part of Enterprise Support.
• For technical support cases, customers typically interact with AWS Support engineers or the TAMs, not the Concierge. The Concierge may route or coordinate related requests, but they don’t provide the technical resolution.

• What Concierge does: billing and account inquiries, onboarding help, coordination with AWS support.
• What Concierge does not do: provide architecture/design guidance or in-depth technical support case resolutions.

• SageMaker endpoint: Not required because the model is being used through Amazon Bedrock.
• SageMaker Model Registry: Used for managing SageMaker models, not for making a Bedrock custom model available.
• Grant access in Amazon Bedrock: IAM permissions may still be needed, but granting access alone does not provide the required inference capacity.

• Help the team identify the causes of delays.
• Encourage continuous improvement through retrospectives.
• Support the team in changing its process, tools, or collaboration methods.
• Help remove impediments that the team cannot resolve independently.

• A: An impediment log may help, but simply maintaining it does not ensure the impediments are resolved.
• B: Directing the team to solutions conflicts with agile self-management.
• C: Adding impediments to the product backlog could delay their resolution and treats them like product features.

• Geo-redundant storage (GRS) replicates data to a secondary Azure region, but the secondary copy is normally unavailable for read access.
• RA-GRS provides geo-replication and read-only access to the secondary region, satisfying all requirements.
• Zone-redundant storage (ZRS) replicates data across availability zones within the same Azure region, not separate geographic regions.
• Locally redundant storage (LRS) keeps copies within a single datacenter or region and does not provide geographic resiliency.

• Answer: D. Select an IdP

• Why: To reduce the number of credentials across multiple SaaS apps, implement a single sign-on approach via an Identity Provider. The first step is choosing the IdP; once selected, you can enable SAML (A) or OAuth as supported by apps. Password vaulting (C) is not a true SSO solution, and B is not the foundational step.

• Answer: C – netstat -an

• netstat -an lists all active connections and listening ports with numeric addresses, without resolving names. This lets you spot DoS patterns such as a flood of connections to a specific port or many connections from a single or few IPs.
• The other options don’t help as directly:

• Windows: netstat -an and look for numerous ESTABLISHED connections to a service or many SYNs to a port.
• Filter by port, e.g., netstat -an | findstr :80, or on Linux: ss -tunap | grep ':80'.

• Netstat provides a snapshot. DoS detection often benefits from continuous monitoring, flow data, and IDS/IPS logs.

• The requirement is a fully managed file server that natively supports Microsoft workloads and file systems and uses the SMB protocol. FSx for Windows File Server is built specifically for Windows workloads, provides native SMB file shares, and supports Windows permissions/Active Directory integration.
• Why the others don’t fit:

• CAPWAP (Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points) creates a tunnel between the AP and the Wireless LAN Controller over the IP network. The AP and WLC communicate via this CAPWAP tunnel, which can traverse Layer 2 or Layer 3 networks.
• The AP does not have to be on the same switch as the WLC. It can connect to any switch in the network, as long as there is IP reachability between the AP and the WLC. This is why option D is correct.
• The other options are incorrect:

• Correct answer: C. AWS CloudFormation

• Why: CloudFormation lets you define infrastructure as code via templates (JSON or YAML). You can create a single template that describes multiple AWS resources and reuse it to deploy consistent stacks across environments. Templates can be parameterized and stored for repeated deployments. Other options (Marketplace, AMI, OpsWorks) don’t provide reusable deployment templates in the same way.

• A: True. You can change the size of a Virtual Warehouse after creation (via UI or ALTER WAREHOUSE).

• B: True. A warehouse can be resized while it’s running; the resize will take effect without needing to stop queries.

• C: True. A warehouse can be configured to suspend after a period of inactivity (AUTO_SUSPEND).

• D: True. A warehouse can be configured to auto-resume when new queries are submitted (AUTO_RESUME).

• Assign users or their team an appropriate security role.
• Ensure the role has the required table privileges, such as read, create, write, and append.
• Share the app with that security role in the app designer.

• Dynamics administration center: Used for environment and service administration, not routine app access configuration.
• Manage Roles: Not the specific Dataverse area used to define app and data permissions.
• Security Roles: Define what users can access and which operations they can perform.

• 25 — Traditional SMTP server-to-server mail transfer; not normally used for secure client submission.
• 110 — POP3, used to retrieve email and typically unencrypted.
• 143 — IMAP, used to access email and typically unencrypted.

• Pay-as-you-go in Azure is an operating expense (OPEX) model, not an “elastic” expenditure model.
• Elastic or scalable terms describe capacity planning, not the cost category. The cost should be treated as OPEX since you pay for usage each month.
• The parallel question (Question 12) shows the correct approach is using an operational expenditure model.