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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.






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






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






4. A software developer has informed the project manager that a portion of the application development is going to take five additional days to complete. The project manager make a __________________ to document the reason for the change.






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






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






7. External auditors are needed under these conditions: (1.) When the organization ________________________. (2.) Some regulations and standards require external - independent auditors






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. A collection of two or more servers that is designed to appear as a single server.






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






16. The party that performs strategic planning - addresses near-term and long-term requirements aligning business objectives - and technology strategies.






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






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






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






20. 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.






21. Support the functioning of the application controls






22. 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.






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






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






25. (1.) MPLS (2.) SONET (3.) T-Carrier (4.) Frame Relay (5.) ISDN (6.) X.25






26. An estimate that expresses the percent of errors or exceptions that may exist in an entire population






27. A Fire sprinkler system has water in its pipes - and sprinkler heads emit water only if the ambient temperature reaches 220 deg. F. This is a ________________. The system is charged with water and will discharge water out of any sprinkler head whose






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






29. An IS auditor is auditing the change management process for a financial application. The auditor has two primary pieces of evidence: change logs and a written analysis of the change logs performed by a business analyst. The change log is best because






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






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






32. 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






33. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.






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






35. 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.






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






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






38. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review






39. 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






40. The IS auditor should conduct a risk assessment first to determine which areas have highest risk. She should devote more testing resources to those high-risk areas.






41. 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.






42. 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.






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






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






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






46. 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.






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






48. 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






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






50. 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 ________.