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






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






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






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






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






11. (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






12. 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.






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






14. An auditor has detected potential fraud while testing a control objective - He should ___________________. Because Audit committee members are generally not involved in business operations - they will be sufficiently remove from the matter - and they






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






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






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






18. 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






19. A sampling technique where at least one exception is sought in a population






20. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application






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






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






23. 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.






24. A facility that is used to store and manage access to an organization's application source and object code. It consists of 5 parts: (1.) Access and authorization controls (2.) Program checkout (3.) Program Check-in (4.) Version Control (5.) Code Ana






25. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.






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






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






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.) Executive Summary (2.) Governance and control framework (3.) Control Objectives (4.) Management Guidelines (5.) Implementation Guide (6.) IT Assurance Guide






30. 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)






31. 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.






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






33. 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






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






35. Used to schedule and sequence activities in a waterfall-type representation. Planned activities are shown flowing downward to completion. More simplistic than a PERT Diagram.






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






37. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






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






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






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






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






43. (1.) Develop a BC Policy (2.) Conduct BIA (3.) Perform critical analysis (4.) Establish recovery targets (5.) Develop recovery and continuity strategies and plans (6.) Test recovery and continuity plans and procedures Train personnel Maintain strateg






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






45. 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.






46. 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?






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






48. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






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