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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An external IS auditor has discovered a _______________________ - The external auditor can only document the finding in the audit report. An external auditor is not in a position to implement controls.






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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.






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






9. (1.) IP (2.) ICMP (3.) RRC (Radio Resource Control) (4.) AppleTalk






10. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient






11. 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






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






13. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices






14. An audit that is performed in support of an anticipated or active legal proceeding.






15. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)






16. The portion of IT management that tracks the financial value of IT services that support organizational objectives. It includes 4 activities: (1.) Budgeting (2.) Capital Investment (3.) Expense Management (4.) Project accounting and project ROI (Ret






17. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.






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






19. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning






22. 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.






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






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






25. (1.) Access Control (2.) Change Management (3.) Security Controls (4.) Incident Management (5.) SDLC (6.) Source code and versioning controls (7.) Monitoring and logging (8.) Event Management






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






27. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.






28. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






29. A programmer is updating an application that saves passwords in plaintext. In this case - Passwords should be stored in a _____. This makes it impossible for any person to retrieve a password - which could lead to account compromise.






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






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






32. n audit strategy and plans that include: (1.) Scope (2.) Objectives (3.) Resources (4.) Procedures used to evaluation controls and processes






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






34. 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)






35. (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






36. An IS auditor has discovered a high-risk exception during control testing. The best course of action for the IS auditor to take - The IS auditor should immediately ________________ when any high-risk situation is discovered.






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






38. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.






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






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






41. An estimate that expresses the percent of errors or exceptions that may exist in an entire population






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






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






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






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






46. 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.)






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






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






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






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