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






2. 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






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






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






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






6. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






8. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.






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






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






12. 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.






13. (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






14. 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.






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






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






17. 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.






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






19. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






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






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






23. 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






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






25. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.






26. 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.






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






28. 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






29. 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






30. 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.






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






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






33. A CMM helps an organization to _______________ - which is an important first step to any large-scale process improvement effort.






34. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Governance and control framework (3.) Control Objectives (4.) Management Guidelines (5.) Implementation Guide (6.) IT Assurance Guide






35. What type of testing is performed to determine if control procedures have proper design and are operating properly?






36. 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






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






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






39. 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






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






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






42. (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






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






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






45. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






47. 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.






48. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery






49. An organization has chosen to open a business office in another country where labor costs are lower and has hired workers to perform business functions there. - The organization is ___________ - while they may have opened the office in a foreign coun






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