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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 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.






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






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






4. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






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






7. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them






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






9. Used to control connections that are established between systems (1.) TCP (2.) IPC (3.) SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) (4.) RPC (Remote Procedure Call) (5.) NetBIOS






10. (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






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






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






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






14. 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.






15. An auditor has discovered several errors in user account management: many terminated employees' computer accounts are still active. The best course of action - To improve the _________________ to reduce the number of exceptions. For a time - the proc






16. 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






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






18. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






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






21. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






23. 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.)






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






25. 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






26. (1.) Physical (2.) Technical (4.) Administrative






27. Consists of 11 distinct activities: (1.) Service Desk (2.) Incident Management (3.) Problem Management (4.) Change Management (5.) Configuration Management (6.) Release Management (7.) Service-level Management (8.) Financial Management (9.) Capacity






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






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






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






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






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






33. The purpose of an auditor doing interviews - To observe personnel to better understand their discipline - as well as ______________.






34. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning






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






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






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






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






39. The IS auditor should conduct a risk assessment first to determine which areas have highest risk. She should devote more testing resources to those high-risk areas.






40. 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.






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






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






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






44. Framework for auditing and measuring IT Service Management Processes.






45. 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 _________________.






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






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






48. An organization has chosen to open a business office in another country where labor costs are lower and has hired workers to perform business functions there. - The organization is ___________ - while they may have opened the office in a foreign coun






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






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