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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records






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






3. (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






4. Guide program execution through organization of resources and development of clear project objectives.






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






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






7. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Governance and control framework (3.) Control Objectives (4.) Management Guidelines (5.) Implementation Guide (6.) IT Assurance Guide






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






9. 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.






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






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






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






13. 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






14. 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






15. (1.) General (2.) Application






16. 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






17. 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.






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






19. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient






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






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






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






23. An auditor has reviewed access privileges of some employees and has discovered that employees with longer terms of service have excessive privileges. This means User privileges are not being removed from their old position when they transfer to a new






24. 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.






25. Focuses on: maintaining service availability with the least disruption to standard operating parameters during an event






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






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






28. Should include 4 steps: (1.) Emergency Approval (2.) Implementation (3.) Verification (4.) Review






29. 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






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






31. 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






32. A sampling technique used to permit sampling to stop at the earliest possible time. This technique is used when the auditor feels that there is a low risk or low rate of exceptions in the population.






33. 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 ________.






34. (1.) Authentication (2.) Authorization (3.) Change Management (4.) Completeness checks (5.) Validation checks (6.) Input controls (7.) Output controls (8.) Problem management (9.) Identification/access controls






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






36. 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.






37. 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?






38. (1.) Utility (DNS - SNMP - DHCP (2.) Messaging protocols (SMTP) (3.) Data Transfer protocols (NFS - FTP) (4.) Interactive protocols (Telnet)






39. A condition that is the result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms e.g. A web application is displaying information incorrectly and many users have contacted the IT service desk.






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






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






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






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






44. A field in a record in one table that can reference a primary key in another table that can reference a primary key in another table.






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






46. 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.






47. 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.






48. The result of strategic planning - process development - and systems development - which all contribute towards a launch of business operations to reach a set of business objectives.






49. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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