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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.






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






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






4. 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.






5. During the development phase - Developers should only be performing Unit Testing - to verify that the individual sections of code they have written are performing properly.






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






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






8. (1.) IP (2.) ICMP (3.) RRC (Radio Resource Control) (4.) AppleTalk






9. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.






10. 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.






11. (1.) Reliable delivery (2.) Connection oriented (persistent connection) (3.) Order of Delivery (4.) Flow Control (transfer rate is throttled) (5.) Port Number






12. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.






13. A Fire sprinkler system has water in its pipes - and sprinkler heads emit water only if the ambient temperature reaches 220 deg. F. This is a ________________. The system is charged with water and will discharge water out of any sprinkler head whose






14. In Release Management - _________________ means that each step of the release process undergoes formal review and approval before the next step is allowed to begin.






15. Define 10 elements of an Audit - (1.) Subject of audit (2.) Audit Objective (3.) Type of audit (4.) Audit scope (5.) Pre-audit planning (6.) Audit procedures (7.) Communication plan (8.) Report Preparation (9.) Wrap-up (10.) Post-audit follow-up






16. 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.






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






19. Gantt: used to display ______________.






20. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






21. 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 _________________.






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






23. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






24. The result of strategic planning - process development - and systems development - which all contribute towards a launch of business operations to reach a set of business objectives.






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






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






27. A condition often identified as a result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms. Problems can also be identified from a single significant incident for which the impact is significant.






28. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider






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






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






31. (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






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






33. An organization wants to reduce the number of user IDs and passwords that its employees need to remember. The best available solution to this - _______________. This provides a single authentication service (such as LDAP or AD) that many applications






34. A technique that is used to identify the most critical path in a project to understand which tasks are most likely to affect the project schedule.






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






36. 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.






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






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






39. 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






40. 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.






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






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






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






45. 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






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






47. 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)






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






49. The set of activities that is concerned with the ability of the organization to continue to provide services - primarily in the event that a natural or man made disaster has occurred.






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