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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.






2. 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.






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






4. 0. No process at all (1.) Process are ad hoc and disorganized (2.) Consistent processes (3.) Documented processes (4.) Measured and managed processes (5.) Processes are continuously improved






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






6. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance






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






8. An audit of operational efficiency.






9. 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.






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






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






12. The risk that a material error exists that will not be prevented or detected by the organization's control framework - The possibility that a process or procedure will be unable to prevent or deter serious errors and wrongdoing.






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






14. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






15. An organization experiences frequent malware infections on end-user workstations that are received through email - despite the tact that workstations have anti-virus software. To reducing malware - Implementing ________________ will provide an effect






16. Focuses on: maintaining service availability with the least disruption to standard operating parameters during an event






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






18. The process to ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of all changes.






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






21. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.






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






23. Support the functioning of the application controls






24. 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






25. (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






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






27. 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.






28. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






29. 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






30. 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






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






32. 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.






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






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






35. Gantt: used to display ______________.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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.






45. Information is arranged in frames and transported across the medium. Collision detection. Checksum verification of delivery.






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






47. 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






48. To determine effectiveness of a disaster recovery program - an IT auditor should examine _____________.






49. 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.






50. A representation of how closely a sample represents an entire population.