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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. 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






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






4. 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






5. 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






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






7. 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






8. 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.






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






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






11. A computer uses RAM for several purposes: (1.) Operating System - to store info regarding running processes (2.) ____________ - that are used to temporarily store information retrieved from hard disks (3.) Storage of program code (4.) Storage of prog






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






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






14. 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 _________________.






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






16. 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






17. 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






18. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.






19. n audit strategy and plans that include: (1.) Scope (2.) Objectives (3.) Resources (4.) Procedures used to evaluation controls and processes






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider






28. 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.






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






30. 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






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






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






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






34. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






35. 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.






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






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






38. 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.






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






40. 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






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






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






43. An audit of an IS department's operations and systems.






44. Used to estimate the effort required to develop a software program.






45. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






46. Critical Path Methodology helps a project manager determine which activities are on a project's critical list - ________________________.






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






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






49. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample






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