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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.






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






3. The annual expected loss to an asset. It is calculated as the single loss expectancy (SLE) X the annualized rate of occurrence (ARO.)






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






5. IS auditors can _____________________ through the following means: (1.) training courses (2.) webinars (3.) ISACA chapter training events (4.) Industry conferences






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






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






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






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






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






11. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






17. 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.






18. 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.






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






20. 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?






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






22. 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.






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






24. Gantt: used to display ______________.






25. (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






26. 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.






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






28. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.






29. A sampling technique used to permit sampling to stop at the earliest possible time. This technique is used when the auditor feels that there is a low risk or low rate of exceptions in the population.






30. 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






31. 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






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






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






34. (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






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






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






37. The main hardware component of a computer system - which executes instructions in computer programs.






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






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






40. An IS auditor is examining the IT standards document for an organization that was last reviewed two years earlier. The best course of action for the IS auditor is: Report that the ____________________________. Two years is far too long between revie






41. 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 _________________.






42. 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






43. 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






44. An audit of operational efficiency.






45. (1.) General (2.) Application






46. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.






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






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






49. The process to ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of all changes.






50. 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