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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration






2. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems






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






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






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






6. The process of recording the configuration of IT systems. Each configuration setting is known in ITSM parlance as a Configuration Item.






7. 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






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






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






10. 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






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






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






13. 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.






14. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






15. 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.






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






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






18. The result of strategic planning - process development - and systems development - which all contribute towards a launch of business operations to reach a set of business objectives.






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






20. An IS auditor needs to perform an audit of a financial system and needs to trace individual transactions through the system. What type of testing should the auditor perform?






21. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






22. 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.






23. The portion of IT management that tracks the financial value of IT services that support organizational objectives. It includes 4 activities: (1.) Budgeting (2.) Capital Investment (3.) Expense Management (4.) Project accounting and project ROI (Ret






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






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






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






27. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine how many samples possess a specific characteristic.






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






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






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






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






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






33. 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






34. (1.) General (2.) Application






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






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






37. 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.






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






39. 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






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






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






42. 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






43. Delivery of packets from one station to another - on the same network or on different networks.






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






45. 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 _________________.






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






47. 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.






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






49. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.






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