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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components






2. 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.)






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






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






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






6. 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.






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






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






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






10. 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






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






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






13. 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.






14. 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 ________.






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






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






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






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






19. 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.






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






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






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






23. An audit of operational efficiency.






24. 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 _________________.






25. The process of recording the configuration of IT systems. Each configuration setting is known in ITSM parlance as a Configuration Item.






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. 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.






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






29. 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)






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






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






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






33. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.






34. (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






35. An external IS auditor has discovered a _______________________ - The external auditor can only document the finding in the audit report. An external auditor is not in a position to implement controls.






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.






39. 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.






40. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified






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






42. Gantt: used to display ______________.






43. 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.






44. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






45. What activity involves the identification of potential risk and the appropriate response for each threat based on impact assessment using qualitative and/or quantitative measures for an enterprise-wide risk management strategy?






46. Define 10 elements of an Audit - (1.) Subject of audit (2.) Audit Objective (3.) Type of audit (4.) Audit scope (5.) Pre-audit planning (6.) Audit procedures (7.) Communication plan (8.) Report Preparation (9.) Wrap-up (10.) Post-audit follow-up






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






48. 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






49. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time






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