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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






2. (1.) Access controls (2.) Encryption (3.) Audit logging






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






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






6. (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






7. 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.






8. What type of testing is performed to determine if control procedures have proper design and are operating properly?






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






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






15. (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






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






17. 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






18. 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






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






20. A condition that is the result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms e.g. A web application is displaying information incorrectly and many users have contacted the IT service desk.






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






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






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






24. The annual expected loss to an asset. It is calculated as the single loss expectancy (SLE) X the annualized rate of occurrence (ARO.)






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






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






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






28. 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.






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






30. 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.






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 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.






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






34. A CMM helps an organization to _______________ - which is an important first step to any large-scale process improvement effort.






35. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine the numeric total of a specific attribute from the entire population.






36. 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.






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






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






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






40. 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






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






42. (1.) Physical (2.) Technical (4.) Administrative






43. The main hardware component of a computer system - which executes instructions in computer programs.






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






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






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






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






48. 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)






49. Consists of 11 distinct activities: (1.) Service Desk (2.) Incident Management (3.) Problem Management (4.) Change Management (5.) Configuration Management (6.) Release Management (7.) Service-level Management (8.) Financial Management (9.) Capacity






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