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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • 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. A sampling technique where at least one exception is sought in a population






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






4. (1.) General (2.) Application






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






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






7. Focuses on: maintaining service availability with the least disruption to standard operating parameters during an event






8. 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.






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






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






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






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. The risk that a material error exists that will not be prevented or detected by the organization's control framework - The possibility that a process or procedure will be unable to prevent or deter serious errors and wrongdoing.






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






15. ____________________ 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






16. 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.






17. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices






18. Application controls limit ___________ in three ways: (1.) Point of Entry (Input Controls) (2.) During consumption (process controls) (3.) At the point of expression (Output Controls)






19. 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 ________.






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






21. 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.






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






23. 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.






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






25. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.






26. 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.






27. (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






28. 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






29. Used to estimate the effort required to develop a software program.






30. A sampling technique where items are chosen at random; each item has a statistically equal probability of being chosen.






31. 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






32. 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.






33. Handle application processing






34. 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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35. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






36. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






38. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.






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






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






41. The maximum period of downtime for a process or application






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






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






44. 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.






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






46. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






47. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.






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






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






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