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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. (1.) MPLS (2.) SONET (3.) T-Carrier (4.) Frame Relay (5.) ISDN (6.) X.25






2. 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.






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






4. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






5. 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)






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






7. Gantt: used to display ______________.






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






9. (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






10. 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.






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






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






13. 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






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






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






16. An organization experiences frequent malware infections on end-user workstations that are received through email - despite the tact that workstations have anti-virus software. To reducing malware - Implementing ________________ will provide an effect






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






18. 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






19. 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.






20. 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.






21. 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 ________.






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






23. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application






24. 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






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






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






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






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






29. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records






30. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






32. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.






33. 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






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






35. 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






36. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.






37. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.






38. 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.






39. 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.






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






41. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act






42. 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






43. The primary source for test plans in a software development project is: ________________ that are developed for a project should be the primary source for detailed tests.






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






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






46. Outsourcing is an opportunity for the organization to focus on core competencies. When an organization oursources a business function - it no longer needs to be concerned about training employees in that function. Outsources does not always reduce co






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






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






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






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