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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review






2. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






3. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






4. 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.






5. 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






6. 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






7. 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.






8. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. Handle application processing






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






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






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






22. 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






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






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






25. Used to measure the relative maturity of an organization and its processes.






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






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






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






29. 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






30. 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






31. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration






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






33. 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.






34. 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.)






35. ____________________ of the hot site is most important consideration for site selection. IF they are too close together then a single event may involve both locations






36. 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






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






38. An IS auditor is auditing the change management process for a financial application. The auditor has two primary pieces of evidence: change logs and a written analysis of the change logs performed by a business analyst. The change log is best because






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






40. 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.






41. Any event which is not part of the standard operation of service and which causes or may cause an interruption to or reduction in quality of that service. Includes THREE incident types: (1.) Service Outage (2.) Service Slowdown (3.) Software Bug






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






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






44. Subjective sampling is used when the auditor wants to _________________________.






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






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






47. A database administrator has been asked to configure a database management system so that it records all changes made by users - The DBA should implement ___________. This will cause the database to record every change that is made to it.






48. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine the numeric total of a specific attribute from the entire population.






49. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






50. 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.