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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The set of activities that is concerned with the ability of the organization to continue to provide services - primarily in the event that a natural or man made disaster has occurred.






2. 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?






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






4. 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.






5. 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.






6. Gantt: used to display ______________.






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






8. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






14. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.






15. (1.) Utility (DNS - SNMP - DHCP (2.) Messaging protocols (SMTP) (3.) Data Transfer protocols (NFS - FTP) (4.) Interactive protocols (Telnet)






16. 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.






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






18. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time






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






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






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






22. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






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






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






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






26. Used to measure the relative maturity of an organization and its processes.






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






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






29. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






31. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality






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






33. Support the functioning of the application controls






34. Information is arranged in frames and transported across the medium. Collision detection. Checksum verification of delivery.






35. 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






36. (1.) General (2.) Application






37. 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?






38. 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.






39. 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






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






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






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






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






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






45. Handle application processing






46. 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.






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






48. 0. No process at all (1.) Process are ad hoc and disorganized (2.) Consistent processes (3.) Documented processes (4.) Measured and managed processes (5.) Processes are continuously improved






49. 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






50. 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