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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. The process of recording the configuration of IT systems. Each configuration setting is known in ITSM parlance as a Configuration Item.






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






10. 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






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






12. 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?






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






14. Support the functioning of the application controls






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






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






17. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






18. Gantt: used to display ______________.






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






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






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






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






23. 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






24. 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






25. The main hardware component of a computer system - which executes instructions in computer programs.






26. (1.) Develop a BC Policy (2.) Conduct BIA (3.) Perform critical analysis (4.) Establish recovery targets (5.) Develop recovery and continuity strategies and plans (6.) Test recovery and continuity plans and procedures Train personnel Maintain strateg






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






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






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






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






31. An auditor has discovered several errors in user account management: many terminated employees' computer accounts are still active. The best course of action - To improve the _________________ to reduce the number of exceptions. For a time - the proc






32. 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






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






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






35. 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






36. 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 _________________.






37. 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.






38. The process to ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of all changes.






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






40. 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.






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






42. (1.) Feasibility (2.) Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation






43. An audit report usually includes the following 10 elements: (1.) Cover letter (2.) Introduction (3.) Summary (4.) Audit description (5.) _______________ (6.) Interviewees (7.) Evidence (8.) Explanation of sampling techniques (9.) Findings (10.) Recom






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






45. 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






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






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






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






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






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