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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.






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






3. An external IS auditor has discovered a _______________________ - The external auditor can only document the finding in the audit report. An external auditor is not in a position to implement controls.






4. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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






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






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






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






9. ____________________ 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






10. Define 10 elements of an Audit - (1.) Subject of audit (2.) Audit Objective (3.) Type of audit (4.) Audit scope (5.) Pre-audit planning (6.) Audit procedures (7.) Communication plan (8.) Report Preparation (9.) Wrap-up (10.) Post-audit follow-up






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






12. What activity involves the identification of potential risk and the appropriate response for each threat based on impact assessment using qualitative and/or quantitative measures for an enterprise-wide risk management strategy?






13. 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.






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






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






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






17. 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






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






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






20. Gantt: used to display ______________.






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






22. 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.






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






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






25. The portion of IT management that tracks the financial value of IT services that support organizational objectives. It includes 4 activities: (1.) Budgeting (2.) Capital Investment (3.) Expense Management (4.) Project accounting and project ROI (Ret






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






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






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






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






30. 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.






31. The 5 types of risks that are related to audits include: (1.) Control Risk (2.) Detection Risk (3.) Inherent risk (4.) _____________ (5.) Sampling risk






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






33. 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






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






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






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






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






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






39. A software developer has informed the project manager that a portion of the application development is going to take five additional days to complete. The project manager make a __________________ to document the reason for the change.






40. Aids in the coordinating of business processes using a sequence of three events -(1.) Business process creation (2.) Implementation (3.) Maintenance 3a. Benchmarking: Facilitates continuous improvement within the BPLC






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






42. 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 _________________.






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






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






45. Focuses on: post-event recovery and restoration of services






46. Any event which is not part of the standard operation of service and which causes or may cause an interruption to or reduction in quality of that service. Includes THREE incident types: (1.) Service Outage (2.) Service Slowdown (3.) Software Bug






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






48. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.






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






50. 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