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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






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






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






4. Aids in the coordinating of business processes using a sequence of three events -(1.) Business process creation (2.) Implementation (3.) Maintenance 3a. Benchmarking: Facilitates continuous improvement within the BPLC






5. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.






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






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






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






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






10. 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.






11. 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






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






13. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






14. An organization is building a data center in an area frequented by power outages. The organization cannot tolerate power outages. The best _________________solution is an electric generator and an uninterruptible power supply. The UPS responds to the






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






16. 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






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






18. An external IS auditor has discovered a _______________________ - The external auditor can only document the finding in the audit report. An external auditor is not in a position to implement controls.






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






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






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






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






23. To determine effectiveness of a disaster recovery program - an IT auditor should examine _____________.






24. 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






25. 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.






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






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






28. Should include 4 steps: (1.) Emergency Approval (2.) Implementation (3.) Verification (4.) Review






29. An organization has discovered that some of its employees have criminal records. The best course of action for the organization to take - The organization should have ___________________ on all of its existing employees and also begin instituting bac






30. 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.






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






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






33. 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.






34. 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)






35. Critical Path Methodology helps a project manager determine which activities are on a project's critical list - ________________________.






36. In Release Management - _________________ means that each step of the release process undergoes formal review and approval before the next step is allowed to begin.






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






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






39. 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.






40. 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.






41. 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






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






43. 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.






44. 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.






45. 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






46. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.






47. (1.) IP (2.) ICMP (3.) RRC (Radio Resource Control) (4.) AppleTalk






48. 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






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






50. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient