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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Used to measure the relative maturity of an organization and its processes.






2. 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






3. 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.






4. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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






6. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance






7. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Framework (3.) Reporting to External Parties (4.) Evaluation Tools






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






9. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them






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






11. 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






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. 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






14. 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.






15. What three elements allow validation of business practices against acceptable measures of regulatory compliance - performance - and standard operational guidelines.






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






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






18. Who is responsible for imposing an IT governance model encompassing IT strategy - information security - and formal enterprise architectural mandates?






19. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






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






22. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider






23. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.






24. 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






25. 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






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






27. (1.) Develop a BC Policy (2.) Conduct BIA (3.) Perform critical analysis (4.) Establish recovery targets (5.) Develop recovery and continuity strategies and plans (6.) Test recovery and continuity plans and procedures Train personnel Maintain strateg






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






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






30. A sampling technique where at least one exception is sought in a population






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






32. 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.






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






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






35. (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






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






37. 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






38. 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






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






40. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.






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






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






43. 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






44. Support the functioning of the application controls






45. 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






46. Define 10 elements of an Audit - (1.) Subject of audit (2.) Audit Objective (3.) Type of audit (4.) Audit scope (5.) Pre-audit planning (6.) Audit procedures (7.) Communication plan (8.) Report Preparation (9.) Wrap-up (10.) Post-audit follow-up






47. 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






48. An IS auditor is examining the IT standards document for an organization that was last reviewed two years earlier. The best course of action for the IS auditor is: Report that the ____________________________. Two years is far too long between revie






49. Application controls limit ___________ in three ways: (1.) Point of Entry (Input Controls) (2.) During consumption (process controls) (3.) At the point of expression (Output Controls)






50. One of a database table's fields - whose value is unique.