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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The memory locations in the CPU where arithmetic values are stored.






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






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






4. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment






5. 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.






6. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






7. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.






8. Handle application processing






9. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






11. (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






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






13. The portion of IT management that tracks the financial value of IT services that support organizational objectives. It includes 4 activities: (1.) Budgeting (2.) Capital Investment (3.) Expense Management (4.) Project accounting and project ROI (Ret






14. 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.






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






16. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider






17. Define 10 elements of an Audit - (1.) Subject of audit (2.) Audit Objective (3.) Type of audit (4.) Audit scope (5.) Pre-audit planning (6.) Audit procedures (7.) Communication plan (8.) Report Preparation (9.) Wrap-up (10.) Post-audit follow-up






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. 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.






20. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.






21. 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.






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






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






24. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






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






27. 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.






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






29. A critical application is backed up once per day. The recovery point objective (RPO) for an application that is backed up once per day cannot be ________.






30. 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.






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






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






33. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.






34. 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






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






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






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






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. 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.






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






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






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






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






44. 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.






45. 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.






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






47. 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.)






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






49. 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.






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