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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A dynamically scalable and usually virtualized computing environment that is provided as a service. Clout computing services may be rented or leased so that an organization can have a scalable application without the need for supporting hardware.






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






3. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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






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






6. 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.






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






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






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






10. A facility that is used to store and manage access to an organization's application source and object code. It consists of 5 parts: (1.) Access and authorization controls (2.) Program checkout (3.) Program Check-in (4.) Version Control (5.) Code Ana






11. 0. No process at all (1.) Process are ad hoc and disorganized (2.) Consistent processes (3.) Documented processes (4.) Measured and managed processes (5.) Processes are continuously improved






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






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






14. 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.






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






16. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






17. 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






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






19. 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 ________.






20. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.






21. The set of activities that is concerned with the ability of the organization to continue to provide services - primarily in the event that a natural or man made disaster has occurred.






22. An external IS auditor has discovered a _______________________ - The external auditor can only document the finding in the audit report. An external auditor is not in a position to implement controls.






23. 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






24. 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






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






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






27. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






29. 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.






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






31. 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.






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






33. ____________________ 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






34. 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.






35. (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






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






37. 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.






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. (1.) IP (2.) ICMP (3.) RRC (Radio Resource Control) (4.) AppleTalk






40. 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.






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






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






43. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine the numeric total of a specific attribute from the entire population.






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






45. 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.






46. 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.






47. 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






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






49. (1.) Developers (2.) Architects (3.) Analysts (4.) Users






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