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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






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






3. 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






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






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






6. 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






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






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






9. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






11. 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.






12. A collection of two or more servers that is designed to appear as a single server.






13. (1.) IP (2.) ICMP (3.) RRC (Radio Resource Control) (4.) AppleTalk






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






15. Handle application processing






16. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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






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






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






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






21. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.






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






23. 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.






24. 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.






25. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance






26. (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






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






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






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






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






31. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






32. 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.






33. 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






34. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified






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






36. 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






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






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






39. Used to schedule and sequence activities in a waterfall-type representation. Planned activities are shown flowing downward to completion. More simplistic than a PERT Diagram.






40. 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.

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






42. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time






43. (1.) General (2.) Application






44. Used for several types of system changes: (1.) Incidents and problem resolution (bug fixes.) (2.) Enhancements (new functionality.) (3.) Subsystem patches and changes (require testing similar to when changes are made to the application itself.)






45. 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.






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






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






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






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






50. 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