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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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.






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






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






10. 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.






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






12. 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.






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






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






16. 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






17. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. (1.) Reliable delivery (2.) Connection oriented (persistent connection) (3.) Order of Delivery (4.) Flow Control (transfer rate is throttled) (5.) Port Number






25. Consists of 11 distinct activities: (1.) Service Desk (2.) Incident Management (3.) Problem Management (4.) Change Management (5.) Configuration Management (6.) Release Management (7.) Service-level Management (8.) Financial Management (9.) Capacity






26. 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.






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






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






29. 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.






30. An organization that has experienced a sudden increase in its long-distance charges has asked an auditor to investigate. The auditor is most likely to suspect that intruders have discovered a ______________________and is committing toll fraud.


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






32. The purpose of an auditor doing interviews - To observe personnel to better understand their discipline - as well as ______________.






33. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






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






36. 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






37. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.






38. (1.) Access controls (2.) Encryption (3.) Audit logging






39. A CMM helps an organization to _______________ - which is an important first step to any large-scale process improvement effort.






40. 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






41. 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.






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






43. 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.






44. 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.






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






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






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






48. Handle application processing






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






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