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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Should include 4 steps: (1.) Emergency Approval (2.) Implementation (3.) Verification (4.) Review






2. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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






4. 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 ________.






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






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






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






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






9. 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






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






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






12. 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.






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






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






15. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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






17. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.






18. 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.






19. An organization has chosen to open a business office in another country where labor costs are lower and has hired workers to perform business functions there. - The organization is ___________ - while they may have opened the office in a foreign coun






20. 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






21. Support the functioning of the application controls






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






23. 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.






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






25. Focuses on: post-event recovery and restoration of services






26. 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.






27. Framework for auditing and measuring IT Service Management Processes.






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






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






30. 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.






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






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






33. 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






34. 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






35. 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






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






37. The process to ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of all changes.






38. 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.






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






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






41. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration






42. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment






43. An audit that is performed in support of an anticipated or active legal proceeding.






44. 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.






45. The process of recording the configuration of IT systems. Each configuration setting is known in ITSM parlance as a Configuration Item.






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






47. 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.






48. What type of testing is performed to determine if control procedures have proper design and are operating properly?






49. To communication security policies - procedures - and other security-related information to an organization's employees.






50. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Governance and control framework (3.) Control Objectives (4.) Management Guidelines (5.) Implementation Guide (6.) IT Assurance Guide