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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. 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






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






4. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.






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






6. One of a database table's fields - whose value is unique.






7. 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






8. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration






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






10. The means by which management establishes and measures processes by which organizational objectives are achieved






11. 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






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






13. 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.






14. 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






15. 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?






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






17. Delivery of packets from one station to another - on the same network or on different networks.






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






19. Outsourcing is an opportunity for the organization to focus on core competencies. When an organization oursources a business function - it no longer needs to be concerned about training employees in that function. Outsources does not always reduce co






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






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






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






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






24. An IS auditor has discovered a high-risk exception during control testing. The best course of action for the IS auditor to take - The IS auditor should immediately ________________ when any high-risk situation is discovered.






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






26. 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.






27. 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






28. 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






29. 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.






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






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






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






33. 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






34. An auditor has discovered several errors in user account management: many terminated employees' computer accounts are still active. The best course of action - To improve the _________________ to reduce the number of exceptions. For a time - the proc






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






36. 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






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






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






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






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






41. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






42. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






43. A technique that is used to identify the most critical path in a project to understand which tasks are most likely to affect the project schedule.






44. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning






45. 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.






46. In Release Management - _________________ means that each step of the release process undergoes formal review and approval before the next step is allowed to begin.






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






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






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






50. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.