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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.






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






3. 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






4. 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






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






10. 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?






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






12. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. (1.) Access controls (2.) Encryption (3.) Audit logging






23. 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






24. 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.






25. The purpose of an auditor doing interviews - To observe personnel to better understand their discipline - as well as ______________.






26. A critical application is backed up once per day. The recovery point objective (RPO) for an application that is backed up once per day cannot be ________.






27. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review






28. 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.






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






30. 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.






31. (1.) Feasibility (2.) Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation






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






33. Handle application processing






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






35. 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.






36. An audit of an IS department's operations and systems.






37. Support the functioning of the application controls






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






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






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






41. 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.






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






43. 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?






44. 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 _________________.






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






46. 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.






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






48. Application controls limit ___________ in three ways: (1.) Point of Entry (Input Controls) (2.) During consumption (process controls) (3.) At the point of expression (Output Controls)






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






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