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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






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






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






4. 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.






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






6. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.






7. 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.






8. 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.






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






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






11. The main hardware component of a computer system - which executes instructions in computer programs.






12. 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.






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






14. 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.)






15. An IS auditor is examining the IT standards document for an organization that was last reviewed two years earlier. The best course of action for the IS auditor is: Report that the ____________________________. Two years is far too long between revie






16. 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






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






18. Aids in the coordinating of business processes using a sequence of three events -(1.) Business process creation (2.) Implementation (3.) Maintenance 3a. Benchmarking: Facilitates continuous improvement within the BPLC






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






20. ____________________ 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






21. Used to control connections that are established between systems (1.) TCP (2.) IPC (3.) SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) (4.) RPC (Remote Procedure Call) (5.) NetBIOS






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






23. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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






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






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






27. 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






28. (1.) Developers (2.) Architects (3.) Analysts (4.) Users






29. (1.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas






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






31. A sampling technique where at least one exception is sought in a population






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






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






34. 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.






35. 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)






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






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






38. One of a database table's fields - whose value is unique.






39. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






40. 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.






41. 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






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






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






44. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.






45. What three elements allow validation of business practices against acceptable measures of regulatory compliance - performance - and standard operational guidelines.






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






47. 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






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






49. 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.






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