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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. (1.) General (2.) Application






2. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance






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






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






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






6. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






7. 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






8. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application






9. 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 ________.






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






11. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.






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






13. 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






14. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.






15. (1.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas






16. 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






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






18. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






19. 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.






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






21. The risk that a material error exists that will not be prevented or detected by the organization's control framework - The possibility that a process or procedure will be unable to prevent or deter serious errors and wrongdoing.






22. 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.






23. An organization has chosen to open a business office in another country where labor costs are lower and has hired workers to perform business functions there. - The organization is ___________ - while they may have opened the office in a foreign coun






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






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






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






27. A representation of how closely a sample represents an entire population.






28. An organization is building a data center in an area frequented by power outages. The organization cannot tolerate power outages. The best _________________solution is an electric generator and an uninterruptible power supply. The UPS responds to the






29. 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.






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






31. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.






32. Collections of Controls that work together to achieve an entire range of an organization's objectives.






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






34. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






35. Handle application processing






36. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.






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






38. 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






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






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






41. An auditor is examining a key management process and has found that the IT department is not following its split-custody procedure. As a result - Someone may be in possession of the _________________.






42. 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






43. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery






44. 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






45. 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.






46. 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






47. 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






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






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






50. An active - instance of a server operating system running on a machine that is designed to house two or more such virtual servers.