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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






3. 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






4. During an audit - the auditor should obtain 6 types of documents - (1.) Org charts (2.) ___________ (3.) third-party contracts (4.) policies and procedures (5.) standards (6.) system documentation






5. (1.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication






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






7. 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






8. 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.






9. 0. No process at all (1.) Process are ad hoc and disorganized (2.) Consistent processes (3.) Documented processes (4.) Measured and managed processes (5.) Processes are continuously improved






10. 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.






11. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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






13. Define 10 elements of an Audit - (1.) Subject of audit (2.) Audit Objective (3.) Type of audit (4.) Audit scope (5.) Pre-audit planning (6.) Audit procedures (7.) Communication plan (8.) Report Preparation (9.) Wrap-up (10.) Post-audit follow-up






14. 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.






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






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






17. (1.) MPLS (2.) SONET (3.) T-Carrier (4.) Frame Relay (5.) ISDN (6.) X.25






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






19. 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.






20. 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.)






21. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.






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






31. 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






32. (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






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






34. (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






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






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






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






38. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.






39. 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.






40. 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.






41. (1.) Feasibility (2.) Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation






42. 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.






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






44. 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?






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






46. An audit of operational efficiency.






47. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.






48. 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






49. 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.






50. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records