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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. (1.) Feasibility Study (2.) Definition of Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation phase






2. 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.






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






4. An auditor has reviewed access privileges of some employees and has discovered that employees with longer terms of service have excessive privileges. This means User privileges are not being removed from their old position when they transfer to a new






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






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






7. 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






8. 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.






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






10. A large number of loosely coupled computers that are used to solve a common task may be in close proximity to each other or scattered over a large geographical area.






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






12. 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






13. An audit report usually includes the following 10 elements: (1.) Cover letter (2.) Introduction (3.) Summary (4.) Audit description (5.) _______________ (6.) Interviewees (7.) Evidence (8.) Explanation of sampling techniques (9.) Findings (10.) Recom






14. 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






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






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






17. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine the numeric total of a specific attribute from the entire population.






18. 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






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






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






21. 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 ________.






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






23. Used to estimate the effort required to develop a software program.






24. 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 _________________.






25. 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.


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






27. 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






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






29. 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.






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






31. During the development phase - Developers should only be performing Unit Testing - to verify that the individual sections of code they have written are performing properly.






32. (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






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






34. Handle application processing






35. 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.






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






37. Subjective sampling is used when the auditor wants to _________________________.






38. 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






39. (1.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication






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






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






42. 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






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






44. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them






45. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






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






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






49. Support the functioning of the application controls






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