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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 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.






2. (1.) Access Control (2.) Change Management (3.) Security Controls (4.) Incident Management (5.) SDLC (6.) Source code and versioning controls (7.) Monitoring and logging (8.) Event Management






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






4. 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.






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. 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






7. 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.






8. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






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






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






11. 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.






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






13. 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.






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






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






16. 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.






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






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






19. n audit strategy and plans that include: (1.) Scope (2.) Objectives (3.) Resources (4.) Procedures used to evaluation controls and processes






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






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






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






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






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






25. Gantt: used to display ______________.






26. 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.






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






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






29. (1.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas






30. 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.






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






32. An organization has chosen to open a business office in another country where labor costs are lower and has hired workers to perform business functions there. - The organization is ___________ - while they may have opened the office in a foreign coun






33. An organization is building a data center in an area frequented by power outages. The organization cannot tolerate power outages. The best _________________solution is an electric generator and an uninterruptible power supply. The UPS responds to the






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






35. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






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






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






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






40. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine how many samples possess a specific characteristic.






41. 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.






42. Aids in the coordinating of business processes using a sequence of three events -(1.) Business process creation (2.) Implementation (3.) Maintenance 3a. Benchmarking: Facilitates continuous improvement within the BPLC






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






44. 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.






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






46. 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






47. An auditor has discovered several errors in user account management: many terminated employees' computer accounts are still active. The best course of action - To improve the _________________ to reduce the number of exceptions. For a time - the proc






48. What three elements allow validation of business practices against acceptable measures of regulatory compliance - performance - and standard operational guidelines.






49. 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.






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