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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






3. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






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






5. 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






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






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






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






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






10. To review and approve proposed changes to systems and infrastructure. This helps to reduce the risk of unintended events and unplanned downtime.






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






12. A Fire sprinkler system has water in its pipes - and sprinkler heads emit water only if the ambient temperature reaches 220 deg. F. This is a ________________. The system is charged with water and will discharge water out of any sprinkler head whose






13. ____________________ 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






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






15. 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






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






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






18. A sampling technique used to permit sampling to stop at the earliest possible time. This technique is used when the auditor feels that there is a low risk or low rate of exceptions in the population.






19. 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 _________________.






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






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






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






23. 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.






24. The highest number of errors that can exist without a result being materially misstated.






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






26. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






28. A computer uses RAM for several purposes: (1.) Operating System - to store info regarding running processes (2.) ____________ - that are used to temporarily store information retrieved from hard disks (3.) Storage of program code (4.) Storage of prog






29. 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






30. An organization is building a data center in an area frequented by power outages. The organization cannot tolerate power outages. The best _________________solution is an electric generator and an uninterruptible power supply. The UPS responds to the






31. (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






32. 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






33. 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.






34. The 5 types of risks that are related to audits include: (1.) Control Risk (2.) Detection Risk (3.) Inherent risk (4.) _____________ (5.) Sampling risk






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. 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






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






38. 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.






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






40. Support the functioning of the application controls






41. 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






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






43. (1.) MPLS (2.) SONET (3.) T-Carrier (4.) Frame Relay (5.) ISDN (6.) X.25






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






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






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






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






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






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






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