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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. Focuses on: maintaining service availability with the least disruption to standard operating parameters during an event






3. 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.






4. 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.






5. Deliver messages from one station to another on the same network or on different networks. Messaging at this layer is not guaranteed.






6. 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






7. 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.






8. 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






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






10. 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






11. 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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. 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?






25. Subjective sampling is used when the auditor wants to _________________________.






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






27. 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 _________________.






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






29. 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.






30. 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.






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






32. 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






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






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






35. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






36. A sampling technique where a population is divided into classes or strata - based upon the value of one of the attributes. Samples are then selected from each class.






37. 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






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






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






40. 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






41. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.






42. A Fire sprinkler system has water in its pipes - and sprinkler heads emit water only if the ambient temperature reaches 220 deg. F. This is a ________________. The system is charged with water and will discharge water out of any sprinkler head whose






43. 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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44. ____________________ of the hot site is most important consideration for site selection. IF they are too close together then a single event may involve both locations






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






46. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






47. 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.






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






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






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