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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. 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






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






3. 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






4. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






5. (1.) Feasibility Study (2.) Definition of Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation phase






6. 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.






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






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






9. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.






10. 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.






11. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.






12. An estimate that expresses the percent of errors or exceptions that may exist in an entire population






13. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)






14. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time






15. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration






16. 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






17. ____________________ 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






18. 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?






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






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






21. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.






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






23. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample






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






25. 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






26. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.






27. 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.






28. 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.






29. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.






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






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






32. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.






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






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






35. An audit of a third-party organization that provides services to other organizations.






36. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.






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






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






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






40. Gantt: used to display ______________.






41. 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.






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






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






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






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. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.






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






48. 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






49. Information is arranged in frames and transported across the medium. Collision detection. Checksum verification of delivery.






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