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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.






2. Support the functioning of the application controls






3. A database term - which means that the database will not permit a program (or user) to deleted rows from a table if there are records in other tables whose foreign keys reference the row to be deleted.






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






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






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






7. 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.






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






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






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. 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






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






13. 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






14. 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.






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






16. 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






17. Handle application processing






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






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






20. An IS auditor is examining the IT standards document for an organization that was last reviewed two years earlier. The best course of action for the IS auditor is: Report that the ____________________________. Two years is far too long between revie






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






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






23. 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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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.)






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






31. 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.






32. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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






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






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






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






37. An audit of operational efficiency.






38. 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 ________.






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






40. In Release Management - _________________ means that each step of the release process undergoes formal review and approval before the next step is allowed to begin.






41. 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.






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






43. A collection of two or more servers that is designed to appear as a single server.






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






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






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






47. 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






48. 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






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






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