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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. (1.) Reliable delivery (2.) Connection oriented (persistent connection) (3.) Order of Delivery (4.) Flow Control (transfer rate is throttled) (5.) Port Number






2. Used to estimate the effort required to develop a software program.






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






4. 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.






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






6. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified






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






8. 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






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






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






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






13. 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?






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






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






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






17. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.






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






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






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






21. Support the functioning of the application controls






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






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






24. To communication security policies - procedures - and other security-related information to an organization's employees.






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






26. An auditor has detected potential fraud while testing a control objective - He should ___________________. Because Audit committee members are generally not involved in business operations - they will be sufficiently remove from the matter - and they






27. The memory locations in the CPU where arithmetic values are stored.






28. Information is arranged in frames and transported across the medium. Collision detection. Checksum verification of delivery.






29. 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.






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






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






32. 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






33. 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






34. A sampling technique where a population is divided into classes or strata - based upon the value of one of the attributes. Samples are then selected from each class.






35. 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






36. 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?






37. 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.






38. 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






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






40. 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.






41. 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.






42. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration






43. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






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






46. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them






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






48. Used for several types of system changes: (1.) Incidents and problem resolution (bug fixes.) (2.) Enhancements (new functionality.) (3.) Subsystem patches and changes (require testing similar to when changes are made to the application itself.)






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






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