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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. ____________________ of the hot site is most important consideration for site selection. IF they are too close together then a single event may involve both locations






3. Used to schedule and sequence activities in a waterfall-type representation. Planned activities are shown flowing downward to completion. More simplistic than a PERT Diagram.






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






5. Gantt: used to display ______________.






6. A representation of how closely a sample represents an entire population.






7. 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.






8. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment






9. A collection of two or more servers that is designed to appear as a single server.






10. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.






11. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning






12. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






13. The process of recording the configuration of IT systems. Each configuration setting is known in ITSM parlance as a Configuration Item.






14. 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.






15. Guide program execution through organization of resources and development of clear project objectives.






16. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample






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






18. An IS auditor is auditing the change management process for a financial application. The auditor has two primary pieces of evidence: change logs and a written analysis of the change logs performed by a business analyst. The change log is best because






19. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.






20. The set of activities that is concerned with the ability of the organization to continue to provide services - primarily in the event that a natural or man made disaster has occurred.






21. 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.






22. A programmer is updating an application that saves passwords in plaintext. In this case - Passwords should be stored in a _____. This makes it impossible for any person to retrieve a password - which could lead to account compromise.






23. 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.






24. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.






25. An active - instance of a server operating system running on a machine that is designed to house two or more such virtual servers.






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






27. The memory locations in the CPU where arithmetic values are stored.






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






29. 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






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






31. 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






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






33. 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.






34. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.






35. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






36. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.






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






38. An IS auditor needs to perform an audit of a financial system and needs to trace individual transactions through the system. What type of testing should the auditor perform?






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






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






41. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified






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






43. An organization experiences frequent malware infections on end-user workstations that are received through email - despite the tact that workstations have anti-virus software. To reducing malware - Implementing ________________ will provide an effect






44. 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.






45. Support the functioning of the application controls






46. To measure organizational performance and effectiveness against strategic goals.






47. To determine effectiveness of a disaster recovery program - an IT auditor should examine _____________.






48. 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.






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






50. A CMM helps an organization to _______________ - which is an important first step to any large-scale process improvement effort.