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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The party that performs strategic planning - addresses near-term and long-term requirements aligning business objectives - and technology strategies.






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






3. 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






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






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






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






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






8. Information is arranged in frames and transported across the medium. Collision detection. Checksum verification of delivery.






9. (1.) Develop a BC Policy (2.) Conduct BIA (3.) Perform critical analysis (4.) Establish recovery targets (5.) Develop recovery and continuity strategies and plans (6.) Test recovery and continuity plans and procedures Train personnel Maintain strateg






10. An organization that has experienced a sudden increase in its long-distance charges has asked an auditor to investigate. The auditor is most likely to suspect that intruders have discovered a ______________________and is committing toll fraud.


11. Gantt: used to display ______________.






12. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.






13. (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






14. 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.






15. 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 ________.






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






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






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






19. 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






20. During an audit - the auditor should obtain 6 types of documents - (1.) Org charts (2.) ___________ (3.) third-party contracts (4.) policies and procedures (5.) standards (6.) system documentation






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






22. An audit of operational efficiency.






23. 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.






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






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






26. (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






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






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






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






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






31. Support the functioning of the application controls






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






33. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






34. 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.






35. (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






36. What type of testing is performed to determine if control procedures have proper design and are operating properly?






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






38. 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






39. 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






40. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.






41. 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 _________________.






42. 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.






43. 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






44. 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?






45. 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






46. 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.






47. 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






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






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






50. Used for several types of system changes: (1.) Incidents and problem resolution (bug fixes.) (2.) Enhancements (new functionality.) (3.) Subsystem patches and changes (require testing similar to when changes are made to the application itself.)