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






2. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






3. 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.






4. 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.






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






6. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






7. 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






8. 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






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






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






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






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






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






14. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






15. 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






16. An organization is building a data center in an area frequented by power outages. The organization cannot tolerate power outages. The best _________________solution is an electric generator and an uninterruptible power supply. The UPS responds to the






17. Support the functioning of the application controls






18. 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)






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






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






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






22. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review






23. A sampling technique used to permit sampling to stop at the earliest possible time. This technique is used when the auditor feels that there is a low risk or low rate of exceptions in the population.






24. ____________________ 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






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






26. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. 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.






34. An organization has discovered that some of its employees have criminal records. The best course of action for the organization to take - The organization should have ___________________ on all of its existing employees and also begin instituting bac






35. (1.) Physical (2.) Technical (4.) Administrative






36. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine the numeric total of a specific attribute from the entire population.






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






38. (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






39. 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.






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






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






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






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






44. 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






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






46. A database administrator has been asked to configure a database management system so that it records all changes made by users - The DBA should implement ___________. This will cause the database to record every change that is made to it.






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






48. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






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