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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The portion of IT management that tracks the financial value of IT services that support organizational objectives. It includes 4 activities: (1.) Budgeting (2.) Capital Investment (3.) Expense Management (4.) Project accounting and project ROI (Ret






2. To communication security policies - procedures - and other security-related information to an organization's employees.






3. (1.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas






4. An organization that has experienced a sudden increase in its long-distance charges has asked an auditor to investigate. The auditor is most likely to suspect that intruders have discovered a ______________________and is committing toll fraud.

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5. (1.) Developers (2.) Architects (3.) Analysts (4.) Users






6. An IS auditor has discovered a high-risk exception during control testing. The best course of action for the IS auditor to take - The IS auditor should immediately ________________ when any high-risk situation is discovered.






7. An auditor is examining a key management process and has found that the IT department is not following its split-custody procedure. As a result - Someone may be in possession of the _________________.






8. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery






9. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.






10. What activity involves the identification of potential risk and the appropriate response for each threat based on impact assessment using qualitative and/or quantitative measures for an enterprise-wide risk management strategy?






11. External auditors are needed under these conditions: (1.) When the organization ________________________. (2.) Some regulations and standards require external - independent auditors






12. The IS auditor should conduct a risk assessment first to determine which areas have highest risk. She should devote more testing resources to those high-risk areas.






13. The process to ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of all changes.






14. (1.) MPLS (2.) SONET (3.) T-Carrier (4.) Frame Relay (5.) ISDN (6.) X.25






15. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act






16. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






17. A quantitative risk analysis is __________________ because: It is difficult to get accurate figures on the frequency of specific threats. It is difficult to determine the probability that a threat will be realized. It is relatively easy to determine






18. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






19. An organization has chosen to open a business office in another country where labor costs are lower and has hired workers to perform business functions there. - The organization is ___________ - while they may have opened the office in a foreign coun






20. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.






21. An auditor has detected potential fraud while testing a control objective - He should ___________________. Because Audit committee members are generally not involved in business operations - they will be sufficiently remove from the matter - and they






22. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time






23. A Fire sprinkler system has water in its pipes - and sprinkler heads emit water only if the ambient temperature reaches 220 deg. F. This is a ________________. The system is charged with water and will discharge water out of any sprinkler head whose






24. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.






25. Focuses on: maintaining service availability with the least disruption to standard operating parameters during an event






26. Deliver messages from one station to another on the same network or on different networks. Messaging at this layer is not guaranteed.






27. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.






28. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices






29. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.






30. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






31. The annual expected loss to an asset. It is calculated as the single loss expectancy (SLE) X the annualized rate of occurrence (ARO.)






32. Collections of Controls that work together to achieve an entire range of an organization's objectives.






33. An audit of an IS department's operations and systems.






34. Outsourcing is an opportunity for the organization to focus on core competencies. When an organization oursources a business function - it no longer needs to be concerned about training employees in that function. Outsources does not always reduce co






35. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.






36. A software developer has informed the project manager that a portion of the application development is going to take five additional days to complete. The project manager make a __________________ to document the reason for the change.






37. (1.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication






38. (1.) Feasibility Study (2.) Definition of Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation phase






39. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration






40. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.






41. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.






42. An auditor has reviewed access privileges of some employees and has discovered that employees with longer terms of service have excessive privileges. This means User privileges are not being removed from their old position when they transfer to a new






43. (1.) Utility (DNS - SNMP - DHCP (2.) Messaging protocols (SMTP) (3.) Data Transfer protocols (NFS - FTP) (4.) Interactive protocols (Telnet)






44. What type of testing is performed to verify the accuracy and integrity of transactions as they flow through a system?






45. A tightly coupled collection of computers that are used to solve a common task. One or more actively perform tasks - while zero or more may be in a standby state.






46. The purpose of an auditor doing interviews - To observe personnel to better understand their discipline - as well as ______________.






47. During an audit - the auditor should obtain 6 types of documents - (1.) Org charts (2.) ___________ (3.) third-party contracts (4.) policies and procedures (5.) standards (6.) system documentation






48. During the development phase - Developers should only be performing Unit Testing - to verify that the individual sections of code they have written are performing properly.






49. Framework for auditing and measuring IT Service Management Processes.






50. A technique that is used to identify the most critical path in a project to understand which tasks are most likely to affect the project schedule.