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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Deliver messages from one station to another on the same network or on different networks. Messaging at this layer is not guaranteed.






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






3. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






4. The maximum period of downtime for a process or application






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






6. 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






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






8. 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.






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






10. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






11. (1.) IP (2.) ICMP (3.) RRC (Radio Resource Control) (4.) AppleTalk






12. The annual expected loss to an asset. It is calculated as the single loss expectancy (SLE) X the annualized rate of occurrence (ARO.)






13. Who is responsible for imposing an IT governance model encompassing IT strategy - information security - and formal enterprise architectural mandates?






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






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






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






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






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






19. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.






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






21. External auditors are needed under these conditions: (1.) When the organization ________________________. (2.) Some regulations and standards require external - independent auditors






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






23. 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?






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






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






26. Gantt: used to display ______________.






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






28. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Framework (3.) Reporting to External Parties (4.) Evaluation Tools






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






30. 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.






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






32. An audit of a third-party organization that provides services to other organizations.






33. 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






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






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






36. (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






37. 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






38. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient






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






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






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






42. 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.






43. Handle application processing






44. 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.






45. (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






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






47. The highest number of errors that can exist without a result being materially misstated.






48. 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.






49. 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.






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