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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. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






2. 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






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






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






5. 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.






6. An auditor has detected potential fraud while testing a control objective - He should ___________________. Because Audit committee members are generally not involved in business operations - they will be sufficiently remove from the matter - and they






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






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






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






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






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






12. An organization that has experienced a sudden increase in its long-distance charges has asked an auditor to investigate. The auditor is most likely to suspect that intruders have discovered a ______________________and is committing toll fraud.


13. 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.






14. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






15. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.






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






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






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






19. What three elements allow validation of business practices against acceptable measures of regulatory compliance - performance - and standard operational guidelines.






20. 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.






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






22. 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






23. An active - instance of a server operating system running on a machine that is designed to house two or more such virtual servers.






24. Gantt: used to display ______________.






25. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine the numeric total of a specific attribute from the entire population.






26. (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






27. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.






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






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






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






31. 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.






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






33. 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.






34. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.






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






36. 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.






37. A representation of how closely a sample represents an entire population.






38. 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.






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






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






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






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






43. The 5 types of risks that are related to audits include: (1.) Control Risk (2.) Detection Risk (3.) Inherent risk (4.) _____________ (5.) Sampling risk






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






45. 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






46. 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






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






48. A database term - which means that the database will not permit a program (or user) to deleted rows from a table if there are records in other tables whose foreign keys reference the row to be deleted.






49. 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






50. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.