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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






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






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






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






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






10. 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






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






12. One of a database table's fields - whose value is unique.






13. 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)






14. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.






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






16. 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 _________________.






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. 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 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.






20. Critical Path Methodology helps a project manager determine which activities are on a project's critical list - ________________________.






21. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems






22. 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






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






24. 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






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






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






27. 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.






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






29. 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






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






31. 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?






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






33. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance






34. Gantt: used to display ______________.






35. 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.






36. (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






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






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






39. (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






40. A software developer has informed the project manager that a portion of the application development is going to take five additional days to complete. The project manager make a __________________ to document the reason for the change.






41. A field in a record in one table that can reference a primary key in another table that can reference a primary key in another table.






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






43. (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






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






45. A quantitative risk analysis is __________________ because: It is difficult to get accurate figures on the frequency of specific threats. It is difficult to determine the probability that a threat will be realized. It is relatively easy to determine






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






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






48. 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.






49. 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






50. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.