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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components






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






3. 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.






4. 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.






5. 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.






6. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






7. 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.






8. A critical application is backed up once per day. The recovery point objective (RPO) for an application that is backed up once per day cannot be ________.






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






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






11. 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






12. 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






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






14. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine the numeric total of a specific attribute from the entire population.






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






16. Delivery of packets from one station to another - on the same network or on different networks.






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






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






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






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






22. 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






23. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






24. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






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






27. 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.






28. 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






29. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.






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






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






32. 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 _________________.






33. An external IS auditor has discovered a _______________________ - The external auditor can only document the finding in the audit report. An external auditor is not in a position to implement controls.






34. 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






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






36. An IS auditor has discovered a high-risk exception during control testing. The best course of action for the IS auditor to take - The IS auditor should immediately ________________ when any high-risk situation is discovered.






37. An audit of a third-party organization that provides services to other organizations.






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






39. Used to control connections that are established between systems (1.) TCP (2.) IPC (3.) SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) (4.) RPC (Remote Procedure Call) (5.) NetBIOS






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






41. 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?






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






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






44. (1.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication






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






46. A quantitative risk analysis is __________________ because: It is difficult to get accurate figures on the frequency of specific threats. It is difficult to determine the probability that a threat will be realized. It is relatively easy to determine






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






48. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.






49. Define 10 elements of an Audit - (1.) Subject of audit (2.) Audit Objective (3.) Type of audit (4.) Audit scope (5.) Pre-audit planning (6.) Audit procedures (7.) Communication plan (8.) Report Preparation (9.) Wrap-up (10.) Post-audit follow-up






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