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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Focuses on: post-event recovery and restoration of services






2. 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?






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






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






5. An IS auditor has discovered a high-risk exception during control testing. The best course of action for the IS auditor to take - The IS auditor should immediately ________________ when any high-risk situation is discovered.






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






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






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






9. 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






10. 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






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






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






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






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






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






16. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






17. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider






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






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






20. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






21. A computer uses RAM for several purposes: (1.) Operating System - to store info regarding running processes (2.) ____________ - that are used to temporarily store information retrieved from hard disks (3.) Storage of program code (4.) Storage of prog






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






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






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






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






26. 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.






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






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






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






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






31. (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






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






33. Used to measure the relative maturity of an organization and its processes.






34. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. An audit of an IS department's operations and systems.






42. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






43. 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






44. 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






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






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






47. 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






48. 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.






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






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