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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What type of testing is performed to determine if control procedures have proper design and are operating properly?






2. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






3. An IS auditor is examining the IT standards document for an organization that was last reviewed two years earlier. The best course of action for the IS auditor is: Report that the ____________________________. Two years is far too long between revie






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






5. 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.






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






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






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






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






10. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample






11. 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)






12. Support the functioning of the application controls






13. 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.






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






15. 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.






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






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






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






19. 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.






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






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






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






23. A facility that is used to store and manage access to an organization's application source and object code. It consists of 5 parts: (1.) Access and authorization controls (2.) Program checkout (3.) Program Check-in (4.) Version Control (5.) Code Ana






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






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






26. 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






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






29. 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.






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






31. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act






32. Used for several types of system changes: (1.) Incidents and problem resolution (bug fixes.) (2.) Enhancements (new functionality.) (3.) Subsystem patches and changes (require testing similar to when changes are made to the application itself.)






33. A programmer is updating an application that saves passwords in plaintext. In this case - Passwords should be stored in a _____. This makes it impossible for any person to retrieve a password - which could lead to account compromise.






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






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






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






37. 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






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






39. 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






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






41. 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






42. 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.






43. 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.






44. 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.






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






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






47. An audit of operational efficiency.






48. 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.






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






50. Gantt: used to display ______________.