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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 tightly coupled collection of computers that are used to solve a common task. One or more actively perform tasks - while zero or more may be in a standby state.






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






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






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






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






6. 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.)






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






8. A large number of loosely coupled computers that are used to solve a common task may be in close proximity to each other or scattered over a large geographical area.






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






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






11. Gantt: used to display ______________.






12. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






13. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






14. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.






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






16. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.






17. 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.






18. 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






19. Subjective sampling is used when the auditor wants to _________________________.






20. During an audit - the auditor should obtain 6 types of documents - (1.) Org charts (2.) ___________ (3.) third-party contracts (4.) policies and procedures (5.) standards (6.) system documentation






21. 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.






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






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






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






25. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning






26. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.






27. A database administrator has been asked to configure a database management system so that it records all changes made by users - The DBA should implement ___________. This will cause the database to record every change that is made to it.






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






29. ____________________ 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






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






31. 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.






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






33. 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






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






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






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






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






38. 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






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






40. 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






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






42. A quantitative risk analysis is __________________ because: It is difficult to get accurate figures on the frequency of specific threats. It is difficult to determine the probability that a threat will be realized. It is relatively easy to determine






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






44. 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






45. 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 _________________.






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






47. 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






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






49. 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.






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