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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components






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






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






4. Handle application processing






5. An audit of an accounting system - accounting department processes - and procedures to determine if business controls are sufficient to ensure the integrity of financial statements.






6. Information is arranged in frames and transported across the medium. Collision detection. Checksum verification of delivery.






7. 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






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






9. A dynamically scalable and usually virtualized computing environment that is provided as a service. Clout computing services may be rented or leased so that an organization can have a scalable application without the need for supporting hardware.






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






11. An audit report usually includes the following 10 elements: (1.) Cover letter (2.) Introduction (3.) Summary (4.) Audit description (5.) _______________ (6.) Interviewees (7.) Evidence (8.) Explanation of sampling techniques (9.) Findings (10.) Recom






12. 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.)






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






14. IS auditors can _____________________ through the following means: (1.) training courses (2.) webinars (3.) ISACA chapter training events (4.) Industry conferences






15. An audit of operational efficiency.






16. 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.






17. During the development phase - Developers should only be performing Unit Testing - to verify that the individual sections of code they have written are performing properly.






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. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






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






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






23. 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.






24. n audit strategy and plans that include: (1.) Scope (2.) Objectives (3.) Resources (4.) Procedures used to evaluation controls and processes






25. 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






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






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






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






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






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






31. 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.






32. ____________________ 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






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






34. (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






35. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.






36. 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






37. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.






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






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






40. 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.






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






42. 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






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






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






45. 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.






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






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






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






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






50. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.