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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Used to estimate the effort required to develop a software program.






2. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






3. 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.






4. 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)






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






6. 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.






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






8. 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






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






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






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






12. 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






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






14. (1.) General (2.) Application






15. 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.






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






17. 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.






18. A software developer has informed the project manager that a portion of the application development is going to take five additional days to complete. The project manager make a __________________ to document the reason for the change.






19. An organization wants to reduce the number of user IDs and passwords that its employees need to remember. The best available solution to this - _______________. This provides a single authentication service (such as LDAP or AD) that many applications






20. An IS auditor is auditing the change management process for a financial application. The auditor has two primary pieces of evidence: change logs and a written analysis of the change logs performed by a business analyst. The change log is best because






21. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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.






29. 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.






30. An organization has discovered that some of its employees have criminal records. The best course of action for the organization to take - The organization should have ___________________ on all of its existing employees and also begin instituting bac






31. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






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






34. To review and approve proposed changes to systems and infrastructure. This helps to reduce the risk of unintended events and unplanned downtime.






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






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






37. 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.






38. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review






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






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






41. 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.






42. (1.) IP (2.) ICMP (3.) RRC (Radio Resource Control) (4.) AppleTalk






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






44. Gantt: used to display ______________.






45. 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.






46. 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






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






48. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.






49. 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






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