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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.






2. 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.






3. An auditor has reviewed access privileges of some employees and has discovered that employees with longer terms of service have excessive privileges. This means User privileges are not being removed from their old position when they transfer to a new






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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






13. 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






14. Collections of Controls that work together to achieve an entire range of an organization's objectives.






15. 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.






16. 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






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






22. 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.






23. An external IS auditor has discovered a _______________________ - The external auditor can only document the finding in the audit report. An external auditor is not in a position to implement controls.






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






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






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






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






28. 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.






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






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






31. (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






32. 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






33. 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.






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






35. 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






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






37. 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






38. 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.






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






40. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






46. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






48. 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.






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






50. (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