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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 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.






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






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






4. 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






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






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






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






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






9. (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






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






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






12. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






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






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






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






17. ____________________ 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






18. 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






19. 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






20. 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.






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






22. 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?






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






24. (1.) LAN protocols (2.) 80 (2.) 11 MAC/LLC (WiFi) (3.) Common Carrier packet networks (4.) ARP (5.) PPP and SLIP (6.) Tunneling - PPTP - L2TP






25. 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.






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






27. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act






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






29. 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.


30. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






31. Any event which is not part of the standard operation of service and which causes or may cause an interruption to or reduction in quality of that service. Includes THREE incident types: (1.) Service Outage (2.) Service Slowdown (3.) Software Bug






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






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






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






35. 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






36. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






38. A condition often identified as a result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms. Problems can also be identified from a single significant incident for which the impact is significant.






39. An organization experiences frequent malware infections on end-user workstations that are received through email - despite the tact that workstations have anti-virus software. To reducing malware - Implementing ________________ will provide an effect






40. 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






41. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






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






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






45. 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.






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






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






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






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






50. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.