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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them






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






3. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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






5. 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.






6. A critical application is backed up once per day. The recovery point objective (RPO) for an application that is backed up once per day cannot be ________.






7. 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






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






9. 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.






10. An audit of operational efficiency.






11. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






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






14. What three elements allow validation of business practices against acceptable measures of regulatory compliance - performance - and standard operational guidelines.






15. A sampling technique where a population is divided into classes or strata - based upon the value of one of the attributes. Samples are then selected from each class.






16. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.






17. 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.






18. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.






19. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration






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






21. 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.






22. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






23. 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






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






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






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






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






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






29. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






30. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.






31. 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.






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






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






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






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






36. During the development phase - Developers should only be performing Unit Testing - to verify that the individual sections of code they have written are performing properly.






37. In Release Management - _________________ means that each step of the release process undergoes formal review and approval before the next step is allowed to begin.






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






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






40. 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.






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






42. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






44. 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






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






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






47. (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






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






49. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)






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