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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. To review and approve proposed changes to systems and infrastructure. This helps to reduce the risk of unintended events and unplanned downtime.






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






4. An organization that has experienced a sudden increase in its long-distance charges has asked an auditor to investigate. The auditor is most likely to suspect that intruders have discovered a ______________________and is committing toll fraud.

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5. 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






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






7. 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.






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






9. 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






10. (1.) Authentication (2.) Authorization (3.) Change Management (4.) Completeness checks (5.) Validation checks (6.) Input controls (7.) Output controls (8.) Problem management (9.) Identification/access controls






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






12. (1.) Physical (2.) Technical (4.) Administrative






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






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






15. 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.






16. 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.






17. 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






18. Framework for auditing and measuring IT Service Management Processes.






19. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






21. 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






22. (1.) General (2.) Application






23. The primary source for test plans in a software development project is: ________________ that are developed for a project should be the primary source for detailed tests.






24. 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






25. 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.






26. To communication security policies - procedures - and other security-related information to an organization's employees.






27. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.






28. 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.






29. 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)






30. External auditors are needed under these conditions: (1.) When the organization ________________________. (2.) Some regulations and standards require external - independent auditors






31. 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






32. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






33. 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






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






35. Gantt: used to display ______________.






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






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






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






39. 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.






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






41. 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?






42. 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






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






44. 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.






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






46. 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?






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






48. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






49. 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 _________________.






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