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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 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






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






3. 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






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






5. Used to estimate the effort required to develop a software program.






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






7. A Fire sprinkler system has water in its pipes - and sprinkler heads emit water only if the ambient temperature reaches 220 deg. F. This is a ________________. The system is charged with water and will discharge water out of any sprinkler head whose






8. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. An auditor has reviewed access privileges of some employees and has discovered that employees with longer terms of service have excessive privileges. This means User privileges are not being removed from their old position when they transfer to a new






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






20. The means by which management establishes and measures processes by which organizational objectives are achieved






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






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






23. 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






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






25. A facility that is used to store and manage access to an organization's application source and object code. It consists of 5 parts: (1.) Access and authorization controls (2.) Program checkout (3.) Program Check-in (4.) Version Control (5.) Code Ana






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






27. 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






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






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






30. 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.






31. 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.






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






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






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






35. 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.






36. Gantt: used to display ______________.






37. (1.) Authentication (2.) Authorization (3.) Change Management (4.) Completeness checks (5.) Validation checks (6.) Input controls (7.) Output controls (8.) Problem management (9.) Identification/access controls






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






39. What type of testing is performed to verify the accuracy and integrity of transactions as they flow through a system?






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






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






42. 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






43. 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?






44. Handle application processing






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






46. A sampling technique where at least one exception is sought in a population






47. 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






48. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






49. To measure organizational performance and effectiveness against strategic goals.






50. 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