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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.






2. 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.






3. 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






4. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.






5. A facility that is used to store and manage access to an organization's application source and object code. It consists of 5 parts: (1.) Access and authorization controls (2.) Program checkout (3.) Program Check-in (4.) Version Control (5.) Code Ana






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






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






8. To review and approve proposed changes to systems and infrastructure. This helps to reduce the risk of unintended events and unplanned downtime.






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






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






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






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






13. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.






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






15. 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)






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






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






18. 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.






19. Gantt: used to display ______________.






20. 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.






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






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






23. 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.






24. 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






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






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






27. Outsourcing is an opportunity for the organization to focus on core competencies. When an organization oursources a business function - it no longer needs to be concerned about training employees in that function. Outsources does not always reduce co






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






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






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. 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?






32. 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






33. ____________________ 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






34. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






35. 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






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






37. 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.






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






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






40. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






41. (1.) Access Control (2.) Change Management (3.) Security Controls (4.) Incident Management (5.) SDLC (6.) Source code and versioning controls (7.) Monitoring and logging (8.) Event Management






42. To measure organizational performance and effectiveness against strategic goals.






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






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






45. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.






46. 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






47. 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.






48. (1.) Utility (DNS - SNMP - DHCP (2.) Messaging protocols (SMTP) (3.) Data Transfer protocols (NFS - FTP) (4.) Interactive protocols (Telnet)






49. (1.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas






50. 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.