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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.






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






3. A condition often identified as a result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms. Problems can also be identified from a single significant incident for which the impact is significant.






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






5. A sampling technique where a population is divided into classes or strata - based upon the value of one of the attributes. Samples are then selected from each class.






6. 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.






7. 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.






8. 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






9. (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






10. (1.) Feasibility Study (2.) Definition of Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation phase






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






12. (1.) General (2.) Application






13. 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






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






15. 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






16. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.






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






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






19. 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.






20. (1.) LAN protocols (2.) 80 (2.) 11 MAC/LLC (WiFi) (3.) Common Carrier packet networks (4.) ARP (5.) PPP and SLIP (6.) Tunneling - PPTP - L2TP






21. An organization that has experienced a sudden increase in its long-distance charges has asked an auditor to investigate. The auditor is most likely to suspect that intruders have discovered a ______________________and is committing toll fraud.

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22. 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






23. An organization experiences frequent malware infections on end-user workstations that are received through email - despite the tact that workstations have anti-virus software. To reducing malware - Implementing ________________ will provide an effect






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






25. An external IS auditor has discovered a _______________________ - The external auditor can only document the finding in the audit report. An external auditor is not in a position to implement controls.






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






27. Any event which is not part of the standard operation of service and which causes or may cause an interruption to or reduction in quality of that service. Includes THREE incident types: (1.) Service Outage (2.) Service Slowdown (3.) Software Bug






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






29. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)






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






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






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






33. 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.






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






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






36. 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?






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






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






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






40. Information is arranged in frames and transported across the medium. Collision detection. Checksum verification of delivery.






41. 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.






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






43. 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 ________.






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






45. 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






46. 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.






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






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






49. 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






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