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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. 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.






3. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning






4. 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.






5. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






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






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






9. An organization that has experienced a sudden increase in its long-distance charges has asked an auditor to investigate. The auditor is most likely to suspect that intruders have discovered a ______________________and is committing toll fraud.

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10. 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.)






11. 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.






12. 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?






13. 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?






14. (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






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






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






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






18. 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






19. 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






20. 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.






21. An audit of operational efficiency.






22. 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






23. 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.






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






25. To review and approve proposed changes to systems and infrastructure. This helps to reduce the risk of unintended events and unplanned downtime.






26. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






27. (1.) General (2.) Application






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






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. 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.






31. 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.






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






33. 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.






34. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them






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






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






37. 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.






38. 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






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






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






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






42. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.






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






44. Handle application processing






45. 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






46. To measure organizational performance and effectiveness against strategic goals.






47. 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






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






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






50. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.