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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






2. 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.






3. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.






4. (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






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






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






7. 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






8. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Governance and control framework (3.) Control Objectives (4.) Management Guidelines (5.) Implementation Guide (6.) IT Assurance Guide






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






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






11. The means by which management establishes and measures processes by which organizational objectives are achieved






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






13. (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






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






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






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






17. (1.) Reliable delivery (2.) Connection oriented (persistent connection) (3.) Order of Delivery (4.) Flow Control (transfer rate is throttled) (5.) Port Number






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






19. 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.






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






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






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






23. A sampling technique used to permit sampling to stop at the earliest possible time. This technique is used when the auditor feels that there is a low risk or low rate of exceptions in the population.






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






26. Handle application processing






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






28. The highest number of errors that can exist without a result being materially misstated.






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






30. 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






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






32. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery






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






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






35. Gantt: used to display ______________.






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






37. 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.






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






39. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.






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. 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






42. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






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






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






46. 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.






47. 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.






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






49. 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.






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