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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.






2. 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






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






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






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






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






7. 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






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






9. Handle application processing






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






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






12. 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?






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






14. n audit strategy and plans that include: (1.) Scope (2.) Objectives (3.) Resources (4.) Procedures used to evaluation controls and processes






15. To ensure that input values are within established ranges - of the correct character types - and free of harmful contents.






16. 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?






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






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






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






20. 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.






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






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






23. An auditor has discovered that several administrators in an application share an administrative account. The auditor should recommend that - Several __________________ should be used. This will enforce accountability for each administrator's actions.






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






25. 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






26. 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






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






28. 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






29. A programmer is updating an application that saves passwords in plaintext. In this case - Passwords should be stored in a _____. This makes it impossible for any person to retrieve a password - which could lead to account compromise.






30. Delivery of packets from one station to another - on the same network or on different networks.






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






32. Focuses on: maintaining service availability with the least disruption to standard operating parameters during an event






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






34. 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.






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






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






37. A technique that is used to identify the most critical path in a project to understand which tasks are most likely to affect the project schedule.






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






39. 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.






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






41. 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.






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






43. (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






44. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices






45. A field in a record in one table that can reference a primary key in another table that can reference a primary key in another table.






46. 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






47. Critical Path Methodology helps a project manager determine which activities are on a project's critical list - ________________________.






48. The portion of IT management that tracks the financial value of IT services that support organizational objectives. It includes 4 activities: (1.) Budgeting (2.) Capital Investment (3.) Expense Management (4.) Project accounting and project ROI (Ret






49. 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






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