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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.






2. 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.






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






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






5. Handle application processing






6. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act






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






8. An auditor has discovered that several administrators in an application share an administrative account. The auditor should recommend that - Several __________________ should be used. This will enforce accountability for each administrator's actions.






9. 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.






10. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices






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






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






13. 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






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






16. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery






17. 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 _________________.






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






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






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






21. 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?






22. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.






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






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






25. 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






26. (1.) IP (2.) ICMP (3.) RRC (Radio Resource Control) (4.) AppleTalk






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






28. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






30. 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






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






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






33. ____________________ of the hot site is most important consideration for site selection. IF they are too close together then a single event may involve both locations






34. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.






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






36. 0. No process at all (1.) Process are ad hoc and disorganized (2.) Consistent processes (3.) Documented processes (4.) Measured and managed processes (5.) Processes are continuously improved






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






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






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






40. 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.






41. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.






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






43. The set of activities that is concerned with the ability of the organization to continue to provide services - primarily in the event that a natural or man made disaster has occurred.






44. 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.






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






46. 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.






47. (1.) General (2.) Application






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. 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






50. 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.