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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The purpose of an auditor doing interviews - To observe personnel to better understand their discipline - as well as ______________.






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






3. 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.






4. Collections of Controls that work together to achieve an entire range of an organization's objectives.






5. 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






6. An external IS auditor has discovered a _______________________ - The external auditor can only document the finding in the audit report. An external auditor is not in a position to implement controls.






7. 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






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






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






10. 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






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






12. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.






13. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review






14. (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






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






16. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






18. 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






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






20. ____________________ of the hot site is most important consideration for site selection. IF they are too close together then a single event may involve both locations






21. 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






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






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






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






25. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






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






28. 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?






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






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






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






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






33. A sampling technique where items are chosen at random; each item has a statistically equal probability of being chosen.






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






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






36. An audit of an IS department's operations and systems.






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






38. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.






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






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






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






42. (1.) General (2.) Application






43. 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






44. 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.






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






46. To review and approve proposed changes to systems and infrastructure. This helps to reduce the risk of unintended events and unplanned downtime.






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






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






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






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