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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. 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






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






4. 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.






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






6. 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.






7. Consists of 11 distinct activities: (1.) Service Desk (2.) Incident Management (3.) Problem Management (4.) Change Management (5.) Configuration Management (6.) Release Management (7.) Service-level Management (8.) Financial Management (9.) Capacity






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






9. A computer uses RAM for several purposes: (1.) Operating System - to store info regarding running processes (2.) ____________ - that are used to temporarily store information retrieved from hard disks (3.) Storage of program code (4.) Storage of prog






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






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






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






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






14. 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.






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






16. Focuses on: post-event recovery and restoration of services






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






18. Handle application processing






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






20. An audit of a third-party organization that provides services to other organizations.






21. 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.






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






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






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






25. Outsourcing is an opportunity for the organization to focus on core competencies. When an organization oursources a business function - it no longer needs to be concerned about training employees in that function. Outsources does not always reduce co






26. (1.) Feasibility (2.) Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation






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






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






29. A quantitative risk analysis is __________________ because: It is difficult to get accurate figures on the frequency of specific threats. It is difficult to determine the probability that a threat will be realized. It is relatively easy to determine






30. 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.






31. 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.






32. (1.) Access Control (2.) Change Management (3.) Security Controls (4.) Incident Management (5.) SDLC (6.) Source code and versioning controls (7.) Monitoring and logging (8.) Event Management






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






34. 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.






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






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






37. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act






38. 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.






39. 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?






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






41. 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






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






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






44. 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.






45. 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.






46. 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






47. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.






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






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






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