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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. (1.) Developers (2.) Architects (3.) Analysts (4.) Users






2. Gantt: used to display ______________.






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






4. 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.)






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






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






7. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality






8. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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






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






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






12. 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






13. (1.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas






14. 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






15. ____________________ 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






16. 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.






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






23. 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






24. The main hardware component of a computer system - which executes instructions in computer programs.






25. 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?






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






27. 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






28. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient






29. (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






30. Guide program execution through organization of resources and development of clear project objectives.






31. A condition that is the result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms e.g. A web application is displaying information incorrectly and many users have contacted the IT service desk.






32. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.






33. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






35. 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 ________.






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






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






38. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records






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






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






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






42. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices






43. 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






44. To ensure that input values are within established ranges - of the correct character types - and free of harmful contents.






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






46. An auditor is examining a key management process and has found that the IT department is not following its split-custody procedure. As a result - Someone may be in possession of the _________________.






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






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






50. What three elements allow validation of business practices against acceptable measures of regulatory compliance - performance - and standard operational guidelines.