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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 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.






2. (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






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






4. An audit report usually includes the following 10 elements: (1.) Cover letter (2.) Introduction (3.) Summary (4.) Audit description (5.) _______________ (6.) Interviewees (7.) Evidence (8.) Explanation of sampling techniques (9.) Findings (10.) Recom






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






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






11. (1.) Physical (2.) Technical (4.) Administrative






12. A condition often identified as a result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms. Problems can also be identified from a single significant incident for which the impact is significant.






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






14. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.






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






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






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






18. (1.) General (2.) Application






19. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.






20. The purpose of an auditor doing interviews - To observe personnel to better understand their discipline - as well as ______________.






21. A programmer is updating an application that saves passwords in plaintext. In this case - Passwords should be stored in a _____. This makes it impossible for any person to retrieve a password - which could lead to account compromise.






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






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






24. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.






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






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






27. 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.






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






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






30. 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






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






32. 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.






33. ____________________ 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






34. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






35. 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.






36. 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.






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






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






44. Used to schedule and sequence activities in a waterfall-type representation. Planned activities are shown flowing downward to completion. More simplistic than a PERT Diagram.






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






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






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






48. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.






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






50. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance