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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.






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






3. 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






4. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act






5. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






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






7. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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






9. (1.) Developers (2.) Architects (3.) Analysts (4.) Users






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






11. 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.






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






13. 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






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






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






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






17. A sampling technique where items are chosen at random; each item has a statistically equal probability of being chosen.






18. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.






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






20. (1.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication






21. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems






22. 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.






23. 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






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






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






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






27. An estimate that expresses the percent of errors or exceptions that may exist in an entire population






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






29. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






31. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.






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






33. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.






34. 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.






35. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






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






38. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






39. What activity involves the identification of potential risk and the appropriate response for each threat based on impact assessment using qualitative and/or quantitative measures for an enterprise-wide risk management strategy?






40. 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)






41. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.






42. 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?






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






44. Critical Path Methodology helps a project manager determine which activities are on a project's critical list - ________________________.






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






46. 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.






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






48. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






49. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review






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