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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.






2. A representation of how closely a sample represents an entire population.






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






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






5. 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






6. (1.) Reliable delivery (2.) Connection oriented (persistent connection) (3.) Order of Delivery (4.) Flow Control (transfer rate is throttled) (5.) Port Number






7. Application controls limit ___________ in three ways: (1.) Point of Entry (Input Controls) (2.) During consumption (process controls) (3.) At the point of expression (Output Controls)






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






9. Any event which is not part of the standard operation of service and which causes or may cause an interruption to or reduction in quality of that service. Includes THREE incident types: (1.) Service Outage (2.) Service Slowdown (3.) Software Bug






10. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.






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






12. (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






13. A database term - which means that the database will not permit a program (or user) to deleted rows from a table if there are records in other tables whose foreign keys reference the row to be deleted.






14. 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.






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






16. 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






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 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?






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






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






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






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






23. The memory locations in the CPU where arithmetic values are stored.






24. 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.






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






26. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.






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






28. An auditor has discovered several errors in user account management: many terminated employees' computer accounts are still active. The best course of action - To improve the _________________ to reduce the number of exceptions. For a time - the proc






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






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






31. 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.






32. 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.






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






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






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






36. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.






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






38. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review






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






40. 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






41. Gantt: used to display ______________.






42. 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.






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






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






45. An organization is building a data center in an area frequented by power outages. The organization cannot tolerate power outages. The best _________________solution is an electric generator and an uninterruptible power supply. The UPS responds to the






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






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






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






49. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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