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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance






2. 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






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






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






5. 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.






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






7. 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.






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






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






10. An audit of an IS department's operations and systems.






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. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified






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






14. 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 _________________.






15. Who is responsible for imposing an IT governance model encompassing IT strategy - information security - and formal enterprise architectural mandates?






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






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






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






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






20. External auditors are needed under these conditions: (1.) When the organization ________________________. (2.) Some regulations and standards require external - independent auditors






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






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






23. 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






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






25. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.






26. (1.) General (2.) Application






27. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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.






36. The primary source for test plans in a software development project is: ________________ that are developed for a project should be the primary source for detailed tests.






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






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






39. Used to estimate the effort required to develop a software program.






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






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






42. What type of testing is performed to determine if control procedures have proper design and are operating properly?






43. 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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44. 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






45. 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.






46. 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.






47. An IS auditor needs to perform an audit of a financial system and needs to trace individual transactions through the system. What type of testing should the auditor perform?






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






49. Focuses on: maintaining service availability with the least disruption to standard operating parameters during an event






50. 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