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






2. 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






3. 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






4. 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






5. 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






6. A programmer is updating an application that saves passwords in plaintext. In this case - Passwords should be stored in a _____. This makes it impossible for any person to retrieve a password - which could lead to account compromise.






7. 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.






8. The annual expected loss to an asset. It is calculated as the single loss expectancy (SLE) X the annualized rate of occurrence (ARO.)






9. 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.






10. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application






11. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.






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






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






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






15. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






16. 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?






17. 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.






18. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






19. 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






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






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






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






23. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






24. In Release Management - _________________ means that each step of the release process undergoes formal review and approval before the next step is allowed to begin.






25. An auditor has detected potential fraud while testing a control objective - He should ___________________. Because Audit committee members are generally not involved in business operations - they will be sufficiently remove from the matter - and they






26. Critical Path Methodology helps a project manager determine which activities are on a project's critical list - ________________________.






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






28. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices






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






30. 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.






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






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






33. 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






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






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






36. An audit of an accounting system - accounting department processes - and procedures to determine if business controls are sufficient to ensure the integrity of financial statements.






37. The maximum period of downtime for a process or application






38. A computer uses RAM for several purposes: (1.) Operating System - to store info regarding running processes (2.) ____________ - that are used to temporarily store information retrieved from hard disks (3.) Storage of program code (4.) Storage of prog






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






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






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






42. (1.) LAN protocols (2.) 80 (2.) 11 MAC/LLC (WiFi) (3.) Common Carrier packet networks (4.) ARP (5.) PPP and SLIP (6.) Tunneling - PPTP - L2TP






43. 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.






44. 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






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






46. An active - instance of a server operating system running on a machine that is designed to house two or more such virtual servers.






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






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






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






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