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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






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






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






4. 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.






5. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






6. (1.) LAN protocols (2.) 80 (2.) 11 MAC/LLC (WiFi) (3.) Common Carrier packet networks (4.) ARP (5.) PPP and SLIP (6.) Tunneling - PPTP - L2TP






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






8. 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?






9. 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






10. An audit of operational efficiency.






11. An audit of an IS department's operations and systems.






12. 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






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






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






15. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.






16. 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.






17. 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.

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18. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.






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






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






21. 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






22. 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.






23. 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.






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






25. 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






26. The primary source for test plans in a software development project is: ________________ that are developed for a project should be the primary source for detailed tests.






27. 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.






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






29. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Governance and control framework (3.) Control Objectives (4.) Management Guidelines (5.) Implementation Guide (6.) IT Assurance Guide






30. 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






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






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






33. (1.) Developers (2.) Architects (3.) Analysts (4.) Users






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






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






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






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






39. 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.






40. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. An audit that is performed in support of an anticipated or active legal proceeding.






49. 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.






50. The set of activities that is concerned with the ability of the organization to continue to provide services - primarily in the event that a natural or man made disaster has occurred.