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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery






2. Guide program execution through organization of resources and development of clear project objectives.






3. 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






4. (1.) Developers (2.) Architects (3.) Analysts (4.) Users






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






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






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






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






9. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.






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






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






12. 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






13. 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






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






15. 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






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






17. 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






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






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






20. The set of activities that is concerned with the ability of the organization to continue to provide services - primarily in the event that a natural or man made disaster has occurred.






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






22. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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






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






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






26. (1.) General (2.) Application






27. 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.






28. ____________________ 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






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






30. A sampling technique where items are chosen at random; each item has a statistically equal probability of being chosen.






31. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.






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






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






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






35. Subjective sampling is used when the auditor wants to _________________________.






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






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






38. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.






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






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






41. 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.






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






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






44. Handle application processing






45. (1.) Access Control (2.) Change Management (3.) Security Controls (4.) Incident Management (5.) SDLC (6.) Source code and versioning controls (7.) Monitoring and logging (8.) Event Management






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






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






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






49. 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.






50. 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.