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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. (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






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






3. 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






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






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






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






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






8. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






10. Support the functioning of the application controls






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






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






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






14. 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






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






16. A sampling technique where a population is divided into classes or strata - based upon the value of one of the attributes. Samples are then selected from each class.






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






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






19. 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






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






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






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






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






24. An organization is building a data center in an area frequented by power outages. The organization cannot tolerate power outages. The best _________________solution is an electric generator and an uninterruptible power supply. The UPS responds to the






25. Aids in the coordinating of business processes using a sequence of three events -(1.) Business process creation (2.) Implementation (3.) Maintenance 3a. Benchmarking: Facilitates continuous improvement within the BPLC






26. 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






27. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.






28. 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.






29. The main hardware component of a computer system - which executes instructions in computer programs.






30. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






31. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components






32. An organization wants to reduce the number of user IDs and passwords that its employees need to remember. The best available solution to this - _______________. This provides a single authentication service (such as LDAP or AD) that many applications






33. Consists of 11 distinct activities: (1.) Service Desk (2.) Incident Management (3.) Problem Management (4.) Change Management (5.) Configuration Management (6.) Release Management (7.) Service-level Management (8.) Financial Management (9.) Capacity






34. 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?






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






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






37. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records






38. A large number of loosely coupled computers that are used to solve a common task may be in close proximity to each other or scattered over a large geographical area.






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






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






41. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. The memory locations in the CPU where arithmetic values are stored.






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






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