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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time






2. 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






3. 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






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






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






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






7. IS auditors can _____________________ through the following means: (1.) training courses (2.) webinars (3.) ISACA chapter training events (4.) Industry conferences






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






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






10. 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






11. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






12. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Framework (3.) Reporting to External Parties (4.) Evaluation Tools






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






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






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






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






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. 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






19. 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?






20. 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






21. Focuses on: post-event recovery and restoration of services






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






23. 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.






24. ____________________ 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






25. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.






26. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






27. 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.






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






29. 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.






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






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






32. 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.






33. To review and approve proposed changes to systems and infrastructure. This helps to reduce the risk of unintended events and unplanned downtime.






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






35. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






37. Deliver messages from one station to another on the same network or on different networks. Messaging at this layer is not guaranteed.






38. 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.






39. The maximum period of downtime for a process or application






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






41. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






42. 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.






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






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






45. A condition that is the result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms e.g. A web application is displaying information incorrectly and many users have contacted the IT service desk.






46. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - as the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient.






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






48. 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






49. 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.






50. 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.