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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 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






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






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






4. A condition that is the result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms e.g. A web application is displaying information incorrectly and many users have contacted the IT service desk.






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






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






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






8. 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.






9. 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






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






11. 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






12. 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






13. A representation of how closely a sample represents an entire population.






14. An audit of a third-party organization that provides services to other organizations.






15. 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.






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






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






18. 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






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






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






21. 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






22. An audit that is performed in support of an anticipated or active legal proceeding.






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






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






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. 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.






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






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






29. 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)






30. A database term - which means that the database will not permit a program (or user) to deleted rows from a table if there are records in other tables whose foreign keys reference the row to be deleted.






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






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






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






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






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






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. 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. 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.






39. (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






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






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






42. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment






43. 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






44. 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






45. 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






46. 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 _________________.






47. 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.






48. 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.






49. 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.






50. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.