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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. To measure organizational performance and effectiveness against strategic goals.






2. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.






3. 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.






4. The main hardware component of a computer system - which executes instructions in computer programs.






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






6. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review






7. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.






8. Used to measure the relative maturity of an organization and its processes.






9. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.






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






11. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






12. The result of strategic planning - process development - and systems development - which all contribute towards a launch of business operations to reach a set of business objectives.






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






14. The means by which management establishes and measures processes by which organizational objectives are achieved






15. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.






16. The risk that a material error exists that will not be prevented or detected by the organization's control framework - The possibility that a process or procedure will be unable to prevent or deter serious errors and wrongdoing.






17. 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






18. A sampling technique used to permit sampling to stop at the earliest possible time. This technique is used when the auditor feels that there is a low risk or low rate of exceptions in the population.






19. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)






20. (1.) General (2.) Application






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






22. A condition often identified as a result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms. Problems can also be identified from a single significant incident for which the impact is significant.






23. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.






24. 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






25. A condition that is the result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms e.g. A web application is displaying information incorrectly and many users have contacted the IT service desk.






26. An auditor has discovered that several administrators in an application share an administrative account. The auditor should recommend that - Several __________________ should be used. This will enforce accountability for each administrator's actions.






27. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine how many samples possess a specific characteristic.






28. A dynamically scalable and usually virtualized computing environment that is provided as a service. Clout computing services may be rented or leased so that an organization can have a scalable application without the need for supporting hardware.






29. An organization wants to reduce the number of user IDs and passwords that its employees need to remember. The best available solution to this - _______________. This provides a single authentication service (such as LDAP or AD) that many applications






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






31. The maximum period of downtime for a process or application






32. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.






33. 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 _________________.






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






35. A large number of loosely coupled computers that are used to solve a common task may be in close proximity to each other or scattered over a large geographical area.






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






37. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.






38. 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






39. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.






40. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






41. To ensure that input values are within established ranges - of the correct character types - and free of harmful contents.






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






43. A database administrator has been asked to configure a database management system so that it records all changes made by users - The DBA should implement ___________. This will cause the database to record every change that is made to it.






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






45. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records






46. Consists of 11 distinct activities: (1.) Service Desk (2.) Incident Management (3.) Problem Management (4.) Change Management (5.) Configuration Management (6.) Release Management (7.) Service-level Management (8.) Financial Management (9.) Capacity






47. Should include 4 steps: (1.) Emergency Approval (2.) Implementation (3.) Verification (4.) Review






48. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.






49. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient






50. A facility that is used to store and manage access to an organization's application source and object code. It consists of 5 parts: (1.) Access and authorization controls (2.) Program checkout (3.) Program Check-in (4.) Version Control (5.) Code Ana