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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Used to estimate the effort required to develop a software program.






2. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them






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






4. 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.)






5. An organization wants to reduce the number of user IDs and passwords that its employees need to remember. The best available solution to this - _______________. This provides a single authentication service (such as LDAP or AD) that many applications






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






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






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






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






10. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






12. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






13. 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.






14. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.






15. 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.






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






17. An auditor is examining a key management process and has found that the IT department is not following its split-custody procedure. As a result - Someone may be in possession of the _________________.






18. To review and approve proposed changes to systems and infrastructure. This helps to reduce the risk of unintended events and unplanned downtime.






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






20. 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






21. An auditor has detected potential fraud while testing a control objective - He should ___________________. Because Audit committee members are generally not involved in business operations - they will be sufficiently remove from the matter - and they






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






23. 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






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






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






26. (1.) Access controls (2.) Encryption (3.) Audit logging






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






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






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






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






31. 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)






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






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






34. 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






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






36. (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






37. (1.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication






38. 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.






39. ____________________ 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






40. Collections of Controls that work together to achieve an entire range of an organization's objectives.






41. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






42. 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






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






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






45. 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






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






47. (1.) General (2.) Application






48. 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






49. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient






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