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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.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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.






2. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






4. Guide program execution through organization of resources and development of clear project objectives.






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






6. 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






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






8. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.






9. 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.






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






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






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






13. 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.)






14. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.






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






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






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






18. 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.






19. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.






20. 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






21. A technique that is used to identify the most critical path in a project to understand which tasks are most likely to affect the project schedule.






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






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






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






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






26. 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






27. A CMM helps an organization to _______________ - which is an important first step to any large-scale process improvement effort.






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






29. 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.






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






31. 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 ________.






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






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






34. Should include 4 steps: (1.) Emergency Approval (2.) Implementation (3.) Verification (4.) Review






35. The primary source for test plans in a software development project is: ________________ that are developed for a project should be the primary source for detailed tests.






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






37. 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)






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






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






40. Aids in the coordinating of business processes using a sequence of three events -(1.) Business process creation (2.) Implementation (3.) Maintenance 3a. Benchmarking: Facilitates continuous improvement within the BPLC






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






42. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






44. A dynamically scalable and usually virtualized computing environment that is provided as a service. Clout computing services may be rented or leased so that an organization can have a scalable application without the need for supporting hardware.






45. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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






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






48. 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 _________________.






49. 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






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