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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.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication






2. A sampling technique where at least one exception is sought in a population






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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.






10. 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.






11. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.






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






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






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






15. 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.


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






17. 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






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






19. 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.






20. A dynamically scalable and usually virtualized computing environment that is provided as a service. Clout computing services may be rented or leased so that an organization can have a scalable application without the need for supporting hardware.






21. 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.






22. Handle application processing






23. 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






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






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






26. Gantt: used to display ______________.






27. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.






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






29. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






30. Used for several types of system changes: (1.) Incidents and problem resolution (bug fixes.) (2.) Enhancements (new functionality.) (3.) Subsystem patches and changes (require testing similar to when changes are made to the application itself.)






31. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.






32. A database administrator has been asked to configure a database management system so that it records all changes made by users - The DBA should implement ___________. This will cause the database to record every change that is made to it.






33. 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.






34. 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






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






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






37. 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






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






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






40. 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.






41. 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 _________________.






42. 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.






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






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






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






46. 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.






47. Used to schedule and sequence activities in a waterfall-type representation. Planned activities are shown flowing downward to completion. More simplistic than a PERT Diagram.






48. 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.






49. A critical application is backed up once per day. The recovery point objective (RPO) for an application that is backed up once per day cannot be ________.






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