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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 sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.






2. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






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






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






6. Gantt: used to display ______________.






7. A database administrator has been asked to configure a database management system so that it records all changes made by users - The DBA should implement ___________. This will cause the database to record every change that is made to it.






8. 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 _________________.






9. 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.






10. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






11. 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






12. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration






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






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






15. 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






16. 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






17. 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






18. (1.) Access controls (2.) Encryption (3.) Audit logging






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






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






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






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






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






24. 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.






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






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






27. 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?






28. During an audit - the auditor should obtain 6 types of documents - (1.) Org charts (2.) ___________ (3.) third-party contracts (4.) policies and procedures (5.) standards (6.) system documentation






29. 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.






30. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.






31. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.






32. 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






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






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






35. An auditor has discovered several errors in user account management: many terminated employees' computer accounts are still active. The best course of action - To improve the _________________ to reduce the number of exceptions. For a time - the proc






36. The maximum period of downtime for a process or application






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






38. Application controls limit ___________ in three ways: (1.) Point of Entry (Input Controls) (2.) During consumption (process controls) (3.) At the point of expression (Output Controls)






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






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






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






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






43. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






45. 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






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






47. Handle application processing






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






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






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