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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.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application






2. 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.






3. 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.






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






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






6. 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






7. 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.






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






9. A tightly coupled collection of computers that are used to solve a common task. One or more actively perform tasks - while zero or more may be in a standby state.






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






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






12. 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 _________________.






13. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






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






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






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






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






19. 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






20. 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.






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






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






23. (1.) Access controls (2.) Encryption (3.) Audit logging






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






25. 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.






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






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






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






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






30. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






31. 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.






32. 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.






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






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






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






36. 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






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






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






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






40. A database administrator has been asked to configure a database management system so that it records all changes made by users - The DBA should implement ___________. This will cause the database to record every change that is made to it.






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






43. (1.) General (2.) Application






44. A dynamically scalable and usually virtualized computing environment that is provided as a service. Clout computing services may be rented or leased so that an organization can have a scalable application without the need for supporting hardware.






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






46. 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






47. (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






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






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






50. 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.