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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.






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






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






4. An auditor has reviewed access privileges of some employees and has discovered that employees with longer terms of service have excessive privileges. This means User privileges are not being removed from their old position when they transfer to a new






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






6. 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






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






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






9. 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.






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






11. 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.






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






13. Used to measure the relative maturity of an organization and its processes.






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






15. Deliver messages from one station to another on the same network or on different networks. Messaging at this layer is not guaranteed.






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






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






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






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






20. 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






21. 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






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






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






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






25. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery






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






27. 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.






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






29. 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.






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






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






32. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






33. 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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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.






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






41. 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.






42. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.






43. The party that performs strategic planning - addresses near-term and long-term requirements aligning business objectives - and technology strategies.






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






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






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






47. 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.






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






49. 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.






50. A dynamically scalable and usually virtualized computing environment that is provided as a service. Clout computing services may be rented or leased so that an organization can have a scalable application without the need for supporting hardware.