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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Framework for auditing and measuring IT Service Management Processes.






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






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






4. Focuses on: post-event recovery and restoration of services






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






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






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






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






9. 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.






10. 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.






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






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






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






14. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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






16. The main hardware component of a computer system - which executes instructions in computer programs.






17. One of a database table's fields - whose value is unique.






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






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






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






21. An audit of operational efficiency.






22. 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






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






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






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






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






27. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.






28. 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






29. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






31. During an audit - the auditor should obtain 6 types of documents - (1.) Org charts (2.) ___________ (3.) third-party contracts (4.) policies and procedures (5.) standards (6.) system documentation






32. A facility that is used to store and manage access to an organization's application source and object code. It consists of 5 parts: (1.) Access and authorization controls (2.) Program checkout (3.) Program Check-in (4.) Version Control (5.) Code Ana






33. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act






34. An IS auditor is auditing the change management process for a financial application. The auditor has two primary pieces of evidence: change logs and a written analysis of the change logs performed by a business analyst. The change log is best because






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






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






37. 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






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






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






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






41. (1.) General (2.) Application






42. 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






43. 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






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






45. 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.






46. 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.






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. 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






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






50. 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.