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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. (1.) Feasibility (2.) Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation






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






3. 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






4. 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






5. 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.






6. 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.






7. What type of testing is performed to verify the accuracy and integrity of transactions as they flow through a system?






8. 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.






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






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






11. (1.) Develop a BC Policy (2.) Conduct BIA (3.) Perform critical analysis (4.) Establish recovery targets (5.) Develop recovery and continuity strategies and plans (6.) Test recovery and continuity plans and procedures Train personnel Maintain strateg






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






13. A collection of two or more servers that is designed to appear as a single server.






14. Support the functioning of the application controls






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






16. (1.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication






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






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






19. 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






20. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.






21. An audit that is performed in support of an anticipated or active legal proceeding.






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






23. 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






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






25. 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.


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






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






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






29. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






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






38. 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.






39. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review






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






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






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






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






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






45. Who is responsible for imposing an IT governance model encompassing IT strategy - information security - and formal enterprise architectural mandates?






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






47. 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.






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






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






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