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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.






2. 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






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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






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






10. 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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11. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.






12. Aids in the coordinating of business processes using a sequence of three events -(1.) Business process creation (2.) Implementation (3.) Maintenance 3a. Benchmarking: Facilitates continuous improvement within the BPLC






13. The process to ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of all changes.






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






15. 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






16. (1.) Authentication (2.) Authorization (3.) Change Management (4.) Completeness checks (5.) Validation checks (6.) Input controls (7.) Output controls (8.) Problem management (9.) Identification/access controls






17. 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






18. The maximum period of downtime for a process or application






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






20. (1.) General (2.) Application






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






22. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






23. 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.






24. 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 ________.






25. Deliver messages from one station to another on the same network or on different networks. Messaging at this layer is not guaranteed.






26. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






27. 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






28. 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.






29. (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






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






31. 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.






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






33. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.






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






35. Handle application processing






36. 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.






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






38. 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 _________________.






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






40. An IS auditor is examining the IT standards document for an organization that was last reviewed two years earlier. The best course of action for the IS auditor is: Report that the ____________________________. Two years is far too long between revie






41. An IS auditor needs to perform an audit of a financial system and needs to trace individual transactions through the system. What type of testing should the auditor perform?






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






43. 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






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






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






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






47. 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.






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






49. 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.






50. Support the functioning of the application controls