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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A representation of how closely a sample represents an entire population.






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






3. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.






4. What type of testing is performed to verify the accuracy and integrity of transactions as they flow through a system?






5. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices






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






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






8. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






10. 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.






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






12. To ensure that input values are within established ranges - of the correct character types - and free of harmful contents.






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






14. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






15. A CMM helps an organization to _______________ - which is an important first step to any large-scale process improvement effort.






16. 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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17. (1.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas






18. Gantt: used to display ______________.






19. 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.






20. 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.






21. Used for several types of system changes: (1.) Incidents and problem resolution (bug fixes.) (2.) Enhancements (new functionality.) (3.) Subsystem patches and changes (require testing similar to when changes are made to the application itself.)






22. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.






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






24. 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






25. 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






26. (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






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






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






29. 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.






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






31. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. 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






39. 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.






40. An auditor has discovered that several administrators in an application share an administrative account. The auditor should recommend that - Several __________________ should be used. This will enforce accountability for each administrator's actions.






41. The means by which management establishes and measures processes by which organizational objectives are achieved






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






43. Used to schedule and sequence activities in a waterfall-type representation. Planned activities are shown flowing downward to completion. More simplistic than a PERT Diagram.






44. 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






45. What three elements allow validation of business practices against acceptable measures of regulatory compliance - performance - and standard operational guidelines.






46. (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






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






48. Collections of Controls that work together to achieve an entire range of an organization's objectives.






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






50. 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.