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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Critical Path Methodology helps a project manager determine which activities are on a project's critical list - ________________________.






2. 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






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






4. 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






5. 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.






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. Gantt: used to display ______________.






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






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






10. 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.






11. 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






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






13. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.






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






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






16. Focuses on: post-event recovery and restoration of services






17. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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






19. Support the functioning of the application controls






20. A software developer has informed the project manager that a portion of the application development is going to take five additional days to complete. The project manager make a __________________ to document the reason for the change.






21. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified






22. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.






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






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






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






26. 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 ________.






27. 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






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






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






30. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.






31. 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.






32. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






34. 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?






35. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.






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






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






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






39. An IS auditor needs to perform an audit of a financial system and needs to trace individual transactions through the system. What type of testing should the auditor perform?






40. 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.






41. 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






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






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






44. ____________________ 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






45. 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.






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






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. 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






49. A collection of two or more servers that is designed to appear as a single server.






50. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality