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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 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 ________.






2. An organization experiences frequent malware infections on end-user workstations that are received through email - despite the tact that workstations have anti-virus software. To reducing malware - Implementing ________________ will provide an effect






3. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.






4. 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






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






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






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






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






9. 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






10. 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?






11. 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.






12. (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






13. 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.






14. 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






15. To ensure that input values are within established ranges - of the correct character types - and free of harmful contents.






16. 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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17. (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






18. 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






19. 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






20. Collections of Controls that work together to achieve an entire range of an organization's objectives.






21. Handle application processing






22. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. 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 _________________.






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






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






34. 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.






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






36. Framework for auditing and measuring IT Service Management Processes.






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






38. IS auditors can _____________________ through the following means: (1.) training courses (2.) webinars (3.) ISACA chapter training events (4.) Industry conferences






39. 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.






40. Gantt: used to display ______________.






41. To determine effectiveness of a disaster recovery program - an IT auditor should examine _____________.






42. A database term - which means that the database will not permit a program (or user) to deleted rows from a table if there are records in other tables whose foreign keys reference the row to be deleted.






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






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






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






46. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider






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






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






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






50. 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