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






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






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






4. A database term - which means that the database will not permit a program (or user) to deleted rows from a table if there are records in other tables whose foreign keys reference the row to be deleted.






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






6. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality






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






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






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






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






15. 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.






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






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






18. Aids in the coordinating of business processes using a sequence of three events -(1.) Business process creation (2.) Implementation (3.) Maintenance 3a. Benchmarking: Facilitates continuous improvement within the BPLC






19. 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






20. An audit of an accounting system - accounting department processes - and procedures to determine if business controls are sufficient to ensure the integrity of financial statements.






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






22. 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?






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






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






25. An IS auditor has discovered a high-risk exception during control testing. The best course of action for the IS auditor to take - The IS auditor should immediately ________________ when any high-risk situation is discovered.






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






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






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






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






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






31. ____________________ 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






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






33. 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






34. Should include 4 steps: (1.) Emergency Approval (2.) Implementation (3.) Verification (4.) Review






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






36. Delivery of packets from one station to another - on the same network or on different networks.






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






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






39. 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.






40. 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






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






42. 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.






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






44. 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






45. The process to ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of all changes.






46. The process of recording the configuration of IT systems. Each configuration setting is known in ITSM parlance as a Configuration Item.






47. 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






48. 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.






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






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