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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. (1.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas






2. To measure organizational performance and effectiveness against strategic goals.






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






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






5. 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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6. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.






7. 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.






8. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






9. 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.






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






11. 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.






12. 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.






13. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.






14. 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?






15. 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






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






17. 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






18. (1.) Utility (DNS - SNMP - DHCP (2.) Messaging protocols (SMTP) (3.) Data Transfer protocols (NFS - FTP) (4.) Interactive protocols (Telnet)






19. 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)






20. The IS auditor should conduct a risk assessment first to determine which areas have highest risk. She should devote more testing resources to those high-risk areas.






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






22. 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.






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






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






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






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






27. 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.






28. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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






36. Support the functioning of the application controls






37. 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.






38. 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.






39. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






45. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






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






48. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.






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






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