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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.






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






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






4. An audit of an IS department's operations and systems.






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






6. 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.






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






8. A critical application is backed up once per day. The recovery point objective (RPO) for an application that is backed up once per day cannot be ________.






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






10. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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






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






13. External auditors are needed under these conditions: (1.) When the organization ________________________. (2.) Some regulations and standards require external - independent auditors






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






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






16. 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






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






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






19. (1.) Develop a BC Policy (2.) Conduct BIA (3.) Perform critical analysis (4.) Establish recovery targets (5.) Develop recovery and continuity strategies and plans (6.) Test recovery and continuity plans and procedures Train personnel Maintain strateg






20. 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.






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






22. 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






23. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.






24. What three elements allow validation of business practices against acceptable measures of regulatory compliance - performance - and standard operational guidelines.






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






27. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery






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






29. 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.






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






31. To communication security policies - procedures - and other security-related information to an organization's employees.






32. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






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






34. The highest number of errors that can exist without a result being materially misstated.






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






36. 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






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






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






39. 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






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






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






42. The result of strategic planning - process development - and systems development - which all contribute towards a launch of business operations to reach a set of business objectives.






43. 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.






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






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






46. A dynamically scalable and usually virtualized computing environment that is provided as a service. Clout computing services may be rented or leased so that an organization can have a scalable application without the need for supporting hardware.






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






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






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






50. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.