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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. Outsourcing is an opportunity for the organization to focus on core competencies. When an organization oursources a business function - it no longer needs to be concerned about training employees in that function. Outsources does not always reduce co






2. 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 _________________.






3. 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






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






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






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






7. 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.






8. An organization has discovered that some of its employees have criminal records. The best course of action for the organization to take - The organization should have ___________________ on all of its existing employees and also begin instituting bac






9. 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






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






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






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






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






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






15. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems






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






17. 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






18. 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






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






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






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






22. The process of recording the configuration of IT systems. Each configuration setting is known in ITSM parlance as a Configuration Item.






23. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






24. 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






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






26. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






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






28. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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?






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






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






42. Used to estimate the effort required to develop a software program.






43. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.






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






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






46. A Fire sprinkler system has water in its pipes - and sprinkler heads emit water only if the ambient temperature reaches 220 deg. F. This is a ________________. The system is charged with water and will discharge water out of any sprinkler head whose






47. 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.






48. Handle application processing






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






50. A field in a record in one table that can reference a primary key in another table that can reference a primary key in another table.