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






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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.)






9. 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.


10. A facility that is used to store and manage access to an organization's application source and object code. It consists of 5 parts: (1.) Access and authorization controls (2.) Program checkout (3.) Program Check-in (4.) Version Control (5.) Code Ana






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






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






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






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






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






16. 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






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






18. 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






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






20. 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






21. A Fire sprinkler system has water in its pipes - and sprinkler heads emit water only if the ambient temperature reaches 220 deg. F. This is a ________________. The system is charged with water and will discharge water out of any sprinkler head whose






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






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






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






25. What type of testing is performed to verify the accuracy and integrity of transactions as they flow through a system?






26. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.






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. Gantt: used to display ______________.






29. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.






30. 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






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






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






33. An audit of a third-party organization that provides services to other organizations.






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






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






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. 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.






39. 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.






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






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






42. ____________________ 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






43. 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.






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. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application






46. Support the functioning of the application controls






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






48. 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






49. 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.






50. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.