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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The memory locations in the CPU where arithmetic values are stored.






2. 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.






3. The result of strategic planning - process development - and systems development - which all contribute towards a launch of business operations to reach a set of business objectives.






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






5. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






6. 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






7. An audit of operational efficiency.






8. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)






9. 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?






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






12. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine how many samples possess a specific characteristic.






13. 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.






14. ____________________ 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






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






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






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






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






19. 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






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






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






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






23. A sampling technique where a population is divided into classes or strata - based upon the value of one of the attributes. Samples are then selected from each class.






24. 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






25. 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 ________.






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






27. 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






28. 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






29. 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






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






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






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






33. 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






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






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






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






37. 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.






38. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






39. To communication security policies - procedures - and other security-related information to an organization's employees.






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






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






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






43. 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






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






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






46. The 5 types of risks that are related to audits include: (1.) Control Risk (2.) Detection Risk (3.) Inherent risk (4.) _____________ (5.) Sampling risk






47. 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.






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






49. 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.






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