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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 audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.






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






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






4. A critical application is backed up once per day. The recovery point objective (RPO) for an application that is backed up once per day cannot be ________.






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






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






7. 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






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






9. (1.) General (2.) Application






10. In Release Management - _________________ means that each step of the release process undergoes formal review and approval before the next step is allowed to begin.






11. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






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






13. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Governance and control framework (3.) Control Objectives (4.) Management Guidelines (5.) Implementation Guide (6.) IT Assurance Guide






14. 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






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






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






17. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






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






20. The memory locations in the CPU where arithmetic values are stored.






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






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






23. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






24. (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






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. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






28. 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.






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






30. 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






31. 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.






32. 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.






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






34. 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.






35. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.






36. 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






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






38. 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






39. 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.






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






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






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






43. 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 _________________.






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. 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






47. 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)






48. ____________________ 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






49. 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.






50. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.