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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems






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






3. A dynamically scalable and usually virtualized computing environment that is provided as a service. Clout computing services may be rented or leased so that an organization can have a scalable application without the need for supporting hardware.






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






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






6. 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






7. 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






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






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






10. 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.

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






12. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.






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






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






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






16. An audit of an accounting system - accounting department processes - and procedures to determine if business controls are sufficient to ensure the integrity of financial statements.






17. 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






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






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






20. 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.






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






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






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






24. 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 _________________.






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. 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.






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






33. 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.






34. An organization has discovered that some of its employees have criminal records. The best course of action for the organization to take - The organization should have ___________________ on all of its existing employees and also begin instituting bac






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






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






37. 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.)






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






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






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






41. 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






42. 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






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






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






45. 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.






46. Deliver messages from one station to another on the same network or on different networks. Messaging at this layer is not guaranteed.






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






48. (1.) Access Control (2.) Change Management (3.) Security Controls (4.) Incident Management (5.) SDLC (6.) Source code and versioning controls (7.) Monitoring and logging (8.) Event Management






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






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