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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The process of recording the configuration of IT systems. Each configuration setting is known in ITSM parlance as a Configuration Item.






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






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






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






5. An organization that has experienced a sudden increase in its long-distance charges has asked an auditor to investigate. The auditor is most likely to suspect that intruders have discovered a ______________________and is committing toll fraud.

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






7. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






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






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






10. 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.






11. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.






12. 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)






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






14. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






15. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.






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






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






18. 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






19. An organization has chosen to open a business office in another country where labor costs are lower and has hired workers to perform business functions there. - The organization is ___________ - while they may have opened the office in a foreign coun






20. 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






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






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






23. 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






24. 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?






25. Critical Path Methodology helps a project manager determine which activities are on a project's critical list - ________________________.






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






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






28. What type of testing is performed to verify the accuracy and integrity of transactions as they flow through a system?






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






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






31. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample






32. 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






33. An auditor has discovered that several administrators in an application share an administrative account. The auditor should recommend that - Several __________________ should be used. This will enforce accountability for each administrator's actions.






34. Support the functioning of the application controls






35. 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.






36. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.






37. 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






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






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






40. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.






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






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






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






44. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






45. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.






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






47. 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.






48. Used to control connections that are established between systems (1.) TCP (2.) IPC (3.) SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) (4.) RPC (Remote Procedure Call) (5.) NetBIOS






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






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