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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records






2. 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






3. 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?






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






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






6. 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






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






8. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






9. (1.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication






10. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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






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






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






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






15. A software developer has informed the project manager that a portion of the application development is going to take five additional days to complete. The project manager make a __________________ to document the reason for the change.






16. 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.






17. (1.) Authentication (2.) Authorization (3.) Change Management (4.) Completeness checks (5.) Validation checks (6.) Input controls (7.) Output controls (8.) Problem management (9.) Identification/access controls






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






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






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






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






22. 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






23. 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.






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






25. A programmer is updating an application that saves passwords in plaintext. In this case - Passwords should be stored in a _____. This makes it impossible for any person to retrieve a password - which could lead to account compromise.






26. 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.






27. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.






28. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)






29. Deliver messages from one station to another on the same network or on different networks. Messaging at this layer is not guaranteed.






30. The party that performs strategic planning - addresses near-term and long-term requirements aligning business objectives - and technology strategies.






31. 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






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






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






34. To measure organizational performance and effectiveness against strategic goals.






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






36. Support the functioning of the application controls






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






38. 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.






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






40. 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






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






42. 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.






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






44. An IS auditor has discovered a high-risk exception during control testing. The best course of action for the IS auditor to take - The IS auditor should immediately ________________ when any high-risk situation is discovered.






45. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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






47. Used to schedule and sequence activities in a waterfall-type representation. Planned activities are shown flowing downward to completion. More simplistic than a PERT Diagram.






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






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






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