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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.






2. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components






3. 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






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






5. 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.






6. 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.






7. 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






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






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






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






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






12. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time






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






14. 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






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






16. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment






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






18. (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






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






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






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






22. 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.






23. (1.) Developers (2.) Architects (3.) Analysts (4.) Users






24. 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?






25. A dynamically scalable and usually virtualized computing environment that is provided as a service. Clout computing services may be rented or leased so that an organization can have a scalable application without the need for supporting hardware.






26. 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.






27. 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






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






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






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






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






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






33. An auditor has reviewed access privileges of some employees and has discovered that employees with longer terms of service have excessive privileges. This means User privileges are not being removed from their old position when they transfer to a new






34. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






35. 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






36. 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?






37. Focuses on: post-event recovery and restoration of services






38. IS auditors can _____________________ through the following means: (1.) training courses (2.) webinars (3.) ISACA chapter training events (4.) Industry conferences






39. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






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






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






43. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.






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






45. An organization is building a data center in an area frequented by power outages. The organization cannot tolerate power outages. The best _________________solution is an electric generator and an uninterruptible power supply. The UPS responds to the






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






47. (1.) General (2.) Application






48. 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






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






50. 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