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






2. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






3. 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






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






5. 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






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






7. 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






8. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






10. 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.






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






12. 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






13. 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






14. 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.






15. An audit that is performed in support of an anticipated or active legal proceeding.






16. Support the functioning of the application controls






17. A collection of two or more servers that is designed to appear as a single server.






18. (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






19. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






21. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.






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






23. 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






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






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






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






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






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






29. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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






31. An organization wants to reduce the number of user IDs and passwords that its employees need to remember. The best available solution to this - _______________. This provides a single authentication service (such as LDAP or AD) that many applications






32. 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 ________.






33. 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.






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






35. An organization is building a data center in an area frequented by power outages. The organization cannot tolerate power outages. The best _________________solution is an electric generator and an uninterruptible power supply. The UPS responds to the






36. Used to control connections that are established between systems (1.) TCP (2.) IPC (3.) SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) (4.) RPC (Remote Procedure Call) (5.) NetBIOS






37. 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?






38. 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






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






40. Critical Path Methodology helps a project manager determine which activities are on a project's critical list - ________________________.






41. During an audit - the auditor should obtain 6 types of documents - (1.) Org charts (2.) ___________ (3.) third-party contracts (4.) policies and procedures (5.) standards (6.) system documentation






42. (1.) IP (2.) ICMP (3.) RRC (Radio Resource Control) (4.) AppleTalk






43. 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






44. 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






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






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






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






48. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample






49. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.






50. An organization that has experienced a sudden increase in its long-distance charges has asked an auditor to investigate. The auditor is most likely to suspect that intruders have discovered a ______________________and is committing toll fraud.

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