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






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






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






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






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






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






7. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified






8. Subjective sampling is used when the auditor wants to _________________________.






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






10. (1.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication






11. 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






12. (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






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






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






15. 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.






16. 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






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






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






19. (1.) General (2.) Application






20. An organization that has experienced a sudden increase in its long-distance charges has asked an auditor to investigate. The auditor is most likely to suspect that intruders have discovered a ______________________and is committing toll fraud.

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21. Aids in the coordinating of business processes using a sequence of three events -(1.) Business process creation (2.) Implementation (3.) Maintenance 3a. Benchmarking: Facilitates continuous improvement within the BPLC






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






23. An audit that is performed in support of an anticipated or active legal proceeding.






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






25. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act






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






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






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






29. 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






30. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






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






33. 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






34. Gantt: used to display ______________.






35. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.






36. Any event which is not part of the standard operation of service and which causes or may cause an interruption to or reduction in quality of that service. Includes THREE incident types: (1.) Service Outage (2.) Service Slowdown (3.) Software Bug






37. An audit of a third-party organization that provides services to other organizations.






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






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






44. Should include 4 steps: (1.) Emergency Approval (2.) Implementation (3.) Verification (4.) Review






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






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






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






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






50. (1.) Authentication (2.) Authorization (3.) Change Management (4.) Completeness checks (5.) Validation checks (6.) Input controls (7.) Output controls (8.) Problem management (9.) Identification/access controls