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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance






2. 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






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






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






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






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






7. An IS auditor needs to perform an audit of a financial system and needs to trace individual transactions through the system. What type of testing should the auditor perform?






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






9. 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.






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






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






12. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






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






15. 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.






16. (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






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






18. What type of testing is performed to verify the accuracy and integrity of transactions as they flow through a system?






19. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.






20. 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.






21. (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






22. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application






23. 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.






24. To communication security policies - procedures - and other security-related information to an organization's employees.






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






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. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






28. One of a database table's fields - whose value is unique.






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






30. 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






31. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Framework (3.) Reporting to External Parties (4.) Evaluation Tools






32. 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






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






34. 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.






35. 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.






36. A programmer is updating an application that saves passwords in plaintext. In this case - Passwords should be stored in a _____. This makes it impossible for any person to retrieve a password - which could lead to account compromise.






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






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






39. (1.) General (2.) Application






40. 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






41. ____________________ 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






42. 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.






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






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






45. 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.






46. An auditor has discovered that several administrators in an application share an administrative account. The auditor should recommend that - Several __________________ should be used. This will enforce accountability for each administrator's actions.






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






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






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






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