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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery






2. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






3. 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.






4. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified






5. 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.






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






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






8. (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






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






10. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.






11. 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






12. An IS auditor is examining the IT standards document for an organization that was last reviewed two years earlier. The best course of action for the IS auditor is: Report that the ____________________________. Two years is far too long between revie






13. (1.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas






14. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.






15. 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.)






16. 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






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






18. An organization that has experienced a sudden increase in its long-distance charges has asked an auditor to investigate. The auditor is most likely to suspect that intruders have discovered a ______________________and is committing toll fraud.

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19. A sampling technique where items are chosen at random; each item has a statistically equal probability of being chosen.






20. 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?






21. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them






22. 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 _________________.






23. 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.






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






25. 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.






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






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






28. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






29. External auditors are needed under these conditions: (1.) When the organization ________________________. (2.) Some regulations and standards require external - independent auditors






30. 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.






31. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






32. 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






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






34. 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






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






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






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






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






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






40. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.






41. (1.) Feasibility Study (2.) Definition of Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation phase






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. 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.






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






50. The risk that a material error exists that will not be prevented or detected by the organization's control framework - The possibility that a process or procedure will be unable to prevent or deter serious errors and wrongdoing.