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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. IS auditors can _____________________ through the following means: (1.) training courses (2.) webinars (3.) ISACA chapter training events (4.) Industry conferences






2. 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






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






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






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






6. 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.






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






8. Support the functioning of the application controls






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






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






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






12. (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






13. 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.






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






15. 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.






16. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






17. ____________________ 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






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






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






20. 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.






21. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.






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






23. 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






24. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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






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






27. An auditor has discovered several errors in user account management: many terminated employees' computer accounts are still active. The best course of action - To improve the _________________ to reduce the number of exceptions. For a time - the proc






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






29. The highest number of errors that can exist without a result being materially misstated.






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






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






32. 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






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






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






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






36. 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.






37. An audit report usually includes the following 10 elements: (1.) Cover letter (2.) Introduction (3.) Summary (4.) Audit description (5.) _______________ (6.) Interviewees (7.) Evidence (8.) Explanation of sampling techniques (9.) Findings (10.) Recom






38. 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.






39. 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.






40. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






41. 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.






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






43. 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.






44. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.






45. 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






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






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






48. 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)






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






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