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






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






3. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






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






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






7. (1.) General (2.) Application






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






9. 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






10. The means by which management establishes and measures processes by which organizational objectives are achieved






11. 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?






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






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






14. 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.






15. 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.






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






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






19. 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.






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






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






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






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






24. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.






25. 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.


26. 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.






27. Framework for auditing and measuring IT Service Management Processes.






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






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






30. 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.






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






32. The IS auditor should conduct a risk assessment first to determine which areas have highest risk. She should devote more testing resources to those high-risk areas.






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






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






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






36. 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






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






38. A software developer has informed the project manager that a portion of the application development is going to take five additional days to complete. The project manager make a __________________ to document the reason for the change.






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






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






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






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






44. 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






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






46. ____________________ 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






47. 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.






48. 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.






49. (1.) Develop a BC Policy (2.) Conduct BIA (3.) Perform critical analysis (4.) Establish recovery targets (5.) Develop recovery and continuity strategies and plans (6.) Test recovery and continuity plans and procedures Train personnel Maintain strateg






50. Outsourcing is an opportunity for the organization to focus on core competencies. When an organization oursources a business function - it no longer needs to be concerned about training employees in that function. Outsources does not always reduce co