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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






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






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






4. 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.






5. 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






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






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






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






9. 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.






10. (1.) General (2.) Application






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






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






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






14. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. 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






23. What type of testing is performed to determine if control procedures have proper design and are operating properly?






24. 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.






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






26. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.






27. 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.






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






29. 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.






30. (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






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






32. (1.) Reliable delivery (2.) Connection oriented (persistent connection) (3.) Order of Delivery (4.) Flow Control (transfer rate is throttled) (5.) Port Number






33. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery






34. 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.






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






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






37. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient






38. During the development phase - Developers should only be performing Unit Testing - to verify that the individual sections of code they have written are performing properly.






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






40. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






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






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






44. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality






45. ____________________ of the hot site is most important consideration for site selection. IF they are too close together then a single event may involve both locations






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






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






48. In Release Management - _________________ means that each step of the release process undergoes formal review and approval before the next step is allowed to begin.






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






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