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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Critical Path Methodology helps a project manager determine which activities are on a project's critical list - ________________________.






2. Gantt: used to display ______________.






3. Any event which is not part of the standard operation of service and which causes or may cause an interruption to or reduction in quality of that service. Includes THREE incident types: (1.) Service Outage (2.) Service Slowdown (3.) Software Bug






4. 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






5. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems






6. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






8. 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.






9. Who is responsible for imposing an IT governance model encompassing IT strategy - information security - and formal enterprise architectural mandates?






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






11. 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






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






13. 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.






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






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






16. 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.






17. (1.) Developers (2.) Architects (3.) Analysts (4.) Users






18. (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






19. A CMM helps an organization to _______________ - which is an important first step to any large-scale process improvement effort.






20. (1.) Feasibility Study (2.) Definition of Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation phase






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






22. 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






23. 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.)






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






25. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






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






28. 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






29. The means by which management establishes and measures processes by which organizational objectives are achieved






30. A representation of how closely a sample represents an entire population.






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






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






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






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






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






36. Delivery of packets from one station to another - on the same network or on different networks.






37. 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.






38. 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






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






40. 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.






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






42. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






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






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






46. ____________________ of the hot site is most important consideration for site selection. IF they are too close together then a single event may involve both locations






47. 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.






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






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






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