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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.) Physical (2.) Technical (4.) Administrative






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






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






4. (1.) MPLS (2.) SONET (3.) T-Carrier (4.) Frame Relay (5.) ISDN (6.) X.25






5. 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






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






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






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






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.

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10. 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.






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. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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






14. A condition often identified as a result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms. Problems can also be identified from a single significant incident for which the impact is significant.






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






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






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






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. 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






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. ____________________ 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






22. The process to ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of all changes.






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






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






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






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






27. Who is responsible for imposing an IT governance model encompassing IT strategy - information security - and formal enterprise architectural mandates?






28. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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






30. 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






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






32. 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.






33. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.






34. 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.






35. A sampling technique where items are chosen at random; each item has a statistically equal probability of being chosen.






36. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment






37. (1.) General (2.) Application






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






39. 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






40. 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.






41. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample






42. 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.






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






44. (1.) Feasibility (2.) Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation






45. 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.






46. 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






47. 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?






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






49. 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.






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