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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. To communication security policies - procedures - and other security-related information to an organization's employees.






2. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.






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






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






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






6. The 5 types of risks that are related to audits include: (1.) Control Risk (2.) Detection Risk (3.) Inherent risk (4.) _____________ (5.) Sampling risk






7. (1.) Developers (2.) Architects (3.) Analysts (4.) Users






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






9. The risk that a material error exists that will not be prevented or detected by the organization's control framework - The possibility that a process or procedure will be unable to prevent or deter serious errors and wrongdoing.






10. (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






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






12. Gantt: used to display ______________.






13. 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.






14. 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.






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






16. 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.






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






18. 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






19. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.






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






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






22. Handle application processing






23. (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






24. 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






25. 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.






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






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






28. Support the functioning of the application controls






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






30. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.






31. 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.






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






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






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






35. 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






36. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.






37. 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.






38. 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.






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






40. 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






41. 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.






42. Aids in the coordinating of business processes using a sequence of three events -(1.) Business process creation (2.) Implementation (3.) Maintenance 3a. Benchmarking: Facilitates continuous improvement within the BPLC






43. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






45. (1.) MPLS (2.) SONET (3.) T-Carrier (4.) Frame Relay (5.) ISDN (6.) X.25






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






47. 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.)






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






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






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