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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Critical Path Methodology helps a project manager determine which activities are on a project's critical list - ________________________.






2. 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.






3. 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






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






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






6. 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






7. 0. No process at all (1.) Process are ad hoc and disorganized (2.) Consistent processes (3.) Documented processes (4.) Measured and managed processes (5.) Processes are continuously improved






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






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






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






11. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.






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






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






14. Handle application processing






15. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






16. To determine effectiveness of a disaster recovery program - an IT auditor should examine _____________.






17. 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.






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






19. 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.






20. A condition that is the result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms e.g. A web application is displaying information incorrectly and many users have contacted the IT service desk.






21. (1.) General (2.) Application






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






23. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






25. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






26. 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.






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






28. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.






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






30. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






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






33. 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.






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






35. The 5 types of risks that are related to audits include: (1.) Control Risk (2.) Detection Risk (3.) Inherent risk (4.) _____________ (5.) Sampling risk






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






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






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






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






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






41. An organization has discovered that some of its employees have criminal records. The best course of action for the organization to take - The organization should have ___________________ on all of its existing employees and also begin instituting bac






42. Gantt: used to display ______________.






43. The IS auditor should conduct a risk assessment first to determine which areas have highest risk. She should devote more testing resources to those high-risk areas.






44. 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






45. An audit report usually includes the following 10 elements: (1.) Cover letter (2.) Introduction (3.) Summary (4.) Audit description (5.) _______________ (6.) Interviewees (7.) Evidence (8.) Explanation of sampling techniques (9.) Findings (10.) Recom






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






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






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






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






50. 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 ________.