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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An estimate that expresses the percent of errors or exceptions that may exist in an entire population






2. 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






3. 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






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






5. (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






6. (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






7. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






8. Handle application processing






9. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance






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






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






12. 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






13. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample






14. Support the functioning of the application controls






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






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






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






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






19. 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.






20. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.






21. 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






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






23. 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






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






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






26. n audit strategy and plans that include: (1.) Scope (2.) Objectives (3.) Resources (4.) Procedures used to evaluation controls and processes






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






28. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






29. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components






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






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






32. An auditor is examining a key management process and has found that the IT department is not following its split-custody procedure. As a result - Someone may be in possession of the _________________.






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






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






35. 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.






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






37. 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.






38. Used for several types of system changes: (1.) Incidents and problem resolution (bug fixes.) (2.) Enhancements (new functionality.) (3.) Subsystem patches and changes (require testing similar to when changes are made to the application itself.)






39. 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.






40. 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






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






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






43. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Framework (3.) Reporting to External Parties (4.) Evaluation Tools






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






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






46. A facility that is used to store and manage access to an organization's application source and object code. It consists of 5 parts: (1.) Access and authorization controls (2.) Program checkout (3.) Program Check-in (4.) Version Control (5.) Code Ana






47. 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.






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






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






50. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.