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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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.






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






3. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






4. The 5 types of risks that are related to audits include: (1.) Control Risk (2.) Detection Risk (3.) Inherent risk (4.) _____________ (5.) Sampling risk






5. (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






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






7. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider






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






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






10. 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






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






12. 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






13. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records






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






15. Support the functioning of the application controls






16. Framework for auditing and measuring IT Service Management Processes.






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






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






19. 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.






20. 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.






21. 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






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






23. (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






24. 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






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






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






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






28. 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.






29. 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






30. 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.






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






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






34. During an audit - the auditor should obtain 6 types of documents - (1.) Org charts (2.) ___________ (3.) third-party contracts (4.) policies and procedures (5.) standards (6.) system documentation






35. 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.






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






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






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






39. 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






40. 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.






41. (1.) General (2.) Application






42. 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






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






44. 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






45. A tightly coupled collection of computers that are used to solve a common task. One or more actively perform tasks - while zero or more may be in a standby state.






46. (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






47. 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.






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






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






50. What type of testing is performed to verify the accuracy and integrity of transactions as they flow through a system?