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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.






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






3. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality






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






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






6. 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






7. To ensure that input values are within established ranges - of the correct character types - and free of harmful contents.






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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.






15. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






17. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.






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






19. 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






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






21. A computer uses RAM for several purposes: (1.) Operating System - to store info regarding running processes (2.) ____________ - that are used to temporarily store information retrieved from hard disks (3.) Storage of program code (4.) Storage of prog






22. An IS auditor is auditing the change management process for a financial application. The auditor has two primary pieces of evidence: change logs and a written analysis of the change logs performed by a business analyst. The change log is best because






23. 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






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






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






26. (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






27. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records






28. The IS auditor should conduct a risk assessment first to determine which areas have highest risk. She should devote more testing resources to those high-risk areas.






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






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






31. ____________________ 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






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






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






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






35. Application controls limit ___________ in three ways: (1.) Point of Entry (Input Controls) (2.) During consumption (process controls) (3.) At the point of expression (Output Controls)






36. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.






37. The primary source for test plans in a software development project is: ________________ that are developed for a project should be the primary source for detailed tests.






38. (1.) MPLS (2.) SONET (3.) T-Carrier (4.) Frame Relay (5.) ISDN (6.) X.25






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






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






41. 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






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






43. 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.






44. 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.






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






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






47. 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.






48. 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






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






50. The risk that a material error exists that will not be prevented or detected by the organization's control framework - The possibility that a process or procedure will be unable to prevent or deter serious errors and wrongdoing.