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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.) Physical (2.) Technical (4.) Administrative






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






3. 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






4. 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






5. 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






6. 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






7. A representation of how closely a sample represents an entire population.






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






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






10. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning






11. An auditor has detected potential fraud while testing a control objective - He should ___________________. Because Audit committee members are generally not involved in business operations - they will be sufficiently remove from the matter - and they






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






13. 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.






14. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






15. 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






16. 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






17. 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.






18. 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






19. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.






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






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






23. 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






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






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






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






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






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






29. A field in a record in one table that can reference a primary key in another table that can reference a primary key in another table.






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






31. 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.






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






34. 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






35. Any event which is not part of the standard operation of service and which causes or may cause an interruption to or reduction in quality of that service. Includes THREE incident types: (1.) Service Outage (2.) Service Slowdown (3.) Software Bug






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






37. A sampling technique where items are chosen at random; each item has a statistically equal probability of being chosen.






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






39. 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)






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






41. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine how many samples possess a specific characteristic.






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






43. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance






44. 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.






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






46. Support the functioning of the application controls






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






48. 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.






49. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment






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