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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.






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






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






4. 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.






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






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






7. 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.






8. 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.






9. 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






10. 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.






11. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices






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






13. 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.






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






16. (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






17. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.






18. A sampling technique used to permit sampling to stop at the earliest possible time. This technique is used when the auditor feels that there is a low risk or low rate of exceptions in the population.






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






20. (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






21. 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 ________.






22. (1.) Reliable delivery (2.) Connection oriented (persistent connection) (3.) Order of Delivery (4.) Flow Control (transfer rate is throttled) (5.) Port Number






23. A sampling technique where items are chosen at random; each item has a statistically equal probability of being chosen.






24. 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 _________________.






25. An estimate that expresses the percent of errors or exceptions that may exist in an entire population






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






27. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider






28. 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






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






30. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act






31. 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.






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






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






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






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






36. A collection of two or more servers that is designed to appear as a single server.






37. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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






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






40. (1.) Feasibility (2.) Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation






41. (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






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






43. Used for several types of system changes: (1.) Incidents and problem resolution (bug fixes.) (2.) Enhancements (new functionality.) (3.) Subsystem patches and changes (require testing similar to when changes are made to the application itself.)






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






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






46. 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






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






48. 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?






49. 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.






50. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them