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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. To communication security policies - procedures - and other security-related information to an organization's employees.






2. 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)






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






4. An audit of operational efficiency.






5. External auditors are needed under these conditions: (1.) When the organization ________________________. (2.) Some regulations and standards require external - independent auditors






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






7. 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.






8. 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






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






10. 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.






11. (1.) IP (2.) ICMP (3.) RRC (Radio Resource Control) (4.) AppleTalk






12. 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






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






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






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






16. 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.






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






18. An organization has discovered that some of its employees have criminal records. The best course of action for the organization to take - The organization should have ___________________ on all of its existing employees and also begin instituting bac






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






20. Handle application processing






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






22. 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






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






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






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






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






27. 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






28. A quantitative risk analysis is __________________ because: It is difficult to get accurate figures on the frequency of specific threats. It is difficult to determine the probability that a threat will be realized. It is relatively easy to determine






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






30. 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.






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






32. 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.






33. 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 ________.






34. 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






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






36. A software developer has informed the project manager that a portion of the application development is going to take five additional days to complete. The project manager make a __________________ to document the reason for the change.






37. An audit of an IS department's operations and systems.






38. An audit that is performed in support of an anticipated or active legal proceeding.






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






40. 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.






41. The party that performs strategic planning - addresses near-term and long-term requirements aligning business objectives - and technology strategies.






42. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Governance and control framework (3.) Control Objectives (4.) Management Guidelines (5.) Implementation Guide (6.) IT Assurance Guide






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






44. 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






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






46. A field in a record in one table that can reference a primary key in another table that can reference a primary key in another table.






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






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






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