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






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






3. 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






4. (1.) Access Control (2.) Change Management (3.) Security Controls (4.) Incident Management (5.) SDLC (6.) Source code and versioning controls (7.) Monitoring and logging (8.) Event Management






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






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






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






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. The primary source for test plans in a software development project is: ________________ that are developed for a project should be the primary source for detailed tests.






10. The IS auditor should conduct a risk assessment first to determine which areas have highest risk. She should devote more testing resources to those high-risk areas.






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






12. 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.






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






14. An auditor has reviewed access privileges of some employees and has discovered that employees with longer terms of service have excessive privileges. This means User privileges are not being removed from their old position when they transfer to a new






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






16. 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






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






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






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






20. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






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






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






24. 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)






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






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






27. 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






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. 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






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






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






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






33. Gantt: used to display ______________.






34. 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.






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






36. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.






37. 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?






38. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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






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






41. 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.






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






43. 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






44. 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.






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






46. 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.






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






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






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






50. (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