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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning






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






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






4. Used to schedule and sequence activities in a waterfall-type representation. Planned activities are shown flowing downward to completion. More simplistic than a PERT Diagram.






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. 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.






10. 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






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






12. 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






13. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.






14. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






15. 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.






16. A computer uses RAM for several purposes: (1.) Operating System - to store info regarding running processes (2.) ____________ - that are used to temporarily store information retrieved from hard disks (3.) Storage of program code (4.) Storage of prog






17. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components






18. Used to measure the relative maturity of an organization and its processes.






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






20. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.






21. To ensure that input values are within established ranges - of the correct character types - and free of harmful contents.






22. 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.






23. 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






24. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery






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






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






27. 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.






28. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application






29. 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






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






31. 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.






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






33. 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.






34. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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






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






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






38. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.






39. 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.






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






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






42. 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)






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






44. (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






45. 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






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






47. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






48. ____________________ 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






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






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