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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Handle application processing






2. Used to estimate the effort required to develop a software program.






3. An audit of a third-party organization that provides services to other organizations.






4. 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






5. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components






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






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






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






9. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application






10. (1.) Access controls (2.) Encryption (3.) Audit logging






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






12. A computer uses RAM for several purposes: (1.) Operating System - to store info regarding running processes (2.) ____________ - that are used to temporarily store information retrieved from hard disks (3.) Storage of program code (4.) Storage of prog






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






14. A critical application is backed up once per day. The recovery point objective (RPO) for an application that is backed up once per day cannot be ________.






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






16. n audit strategy and plans that include: (1.) Scope (2.) Objectives (3.) Resources (4.) Procedures used to evaluation controls and processes






17. 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.






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






19. Subjective sampling is used when the auditor wants to _________________________.






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






21. 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?






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






23. 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.






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






25. Used to control connections that are established between systems (1.) TCP (2.) IPC (3.) SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) (4.) RPC (Remote Procedure Call) (5.) NetBIOS






26. 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






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






28. 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.






29. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine the numeric total of a specific attribute from the entire population.






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






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






32. An audit of operational efficiency.






33. (1.) Feasibility (2.) Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation






34. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






36. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality






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






38. (1.) Physical (2.) Technical (4.) Administrative






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






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






41. 0. No process at all (1.) Process are ad hoc and disorganized (2.) Consistent processes (3.) Documented processes (4.) Measured and managed processes (5.) Processes are continuously improved






42. 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






43. 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






44. In Release Management - _________________ means that each step of the release process undergoes formal review and approval before the next step is allowed to begin.






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






46. 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






47. (1.) Reliable delivery (2.) Connection oriented (persistent connection) (3.) Order of Delivery (4.) Flow Control (transfer rate is throttled) (5.) Port Number






48. (1.) Access Control (2.) Change Management (3.) Security Controls (4.) Incident Management (5.) SDLC (6.) Source code and versioning controls (7.) Monitoring and logging (8.) Event Management






49. What type of testing is performed to determine if control procedures have proper design and are operating properly?






50. (1.) Authentication (2.) Authorization (3.) Change Management (4.) Completeness checks (5.) Validation checks (6.) Input controls (7.) Output controls (8.) Problem management (9.) Identification/access controls