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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 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.






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






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






4. 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.






5. A quantitative risk analysis is __________________ because: It is difficult to get accurate figures on the frequency of specific threats. It is difficult to determine the probability that a threat will be realized. It is relatively easy to determine






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






7. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






8. (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






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






10. A condition that is the result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms e.g. A web application is displaying information incorrectly and many users have contacted the IT service desk.






11. An audit of operational efficiency.






12. 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






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






14. 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?






15. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






16. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.






17. 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






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






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






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






21. 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.






22. 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.






23. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.






24. 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.






25. An auditor has discovered that several administrators in an application share an administrative account. The auditor should recommend that - Several __________________ should be used. This will enforce accountability for each administrator's actions.






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






27. An IS auditor is examining the IT standards document for an organization that was last reviewed two years earlier. The best course of action for the IS auditor is: Report that the ____________________________. Two years is far too long between revie






28. 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






29. 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






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






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






32. 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 _________________.






33. 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.






34. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






35. 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






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






37. An audit report usually includes the following 10 elements: (1.) Cover letter (2.) Introduction (3.) Summary (4.) Audit description (5.) _______________ (6.) Interviewees (7.) Evidence (8.) Explanation of sampling techniques (9.) Findings (10.) Recom






38. 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






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






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






41. An organization has discovered that some of its employees have criminal records. The best course of action for the organization to take - The organization should have ___________________ on all of its existing employees and also begin instituting bac






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






43. 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.






44. 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






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






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






47. What three elements allow validation of business practices against acceptable measures of regulatory compliance - performance - and standard operational guidelines.






48. 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.






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






50. 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?