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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. 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.






3. 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






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






5. 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.






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






7. 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






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






9. Information is arranged in frames and transported across the medium. Collision detection. Checksum verification of delivery.






10. An audit of an accounting system - accounting department processes - and procedures to determine if business controls are sufficient to ensure the integrity of financial statements.






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






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






13. 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?






14. 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.)






15. 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.






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






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






18. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality






19. A technique that is used to identify the most critical path in a project to understand which tasks are most likely to affect the project schedule.






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






21. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






23. A quantitative risk analysis is __________________ because: It is difficult to get accurate figures on the frequency of specific threats. It is difficult to determine the probability that a threat will be realized. It is relatively easy to determine






24. (1.) Authentication (2.) Authorization (3.) Change Management (4.) Completeness checks (5.) Validation checks (6.) Input controls (7.) Output controls (8.) Problem management (9.) Identification/access controls






25. (1.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas






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






27. 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






28. A critical application is backed up once per day. The recovery point objective (RPO) for an application that is backed up once per day cannot be ________.






29. An organization experiences frequent malware infections on end-user workstations that are received through email - despite the tact that workstations have anti-virus software. To reducing malware - Implementing ________________ will provide an effect






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






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






32. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. Gantt: used to display ______________.






40. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.






41. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.






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






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






45. 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






46. 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.






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






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






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






50. An auditor has discovered that several administrators in an application share an administrative account. The auditor should recommend that - Several __________________ should be used. This will enforce accountability for each administrator's actions.