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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.






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






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






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






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






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






7. (1.) Feasibility (2.) Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation






8. (1.) MPLS (2.) SONET (3.) T-Carrier (4.) Frame Relay (5.) ISDN (6.) X.25






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






10. 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






11. 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.






12. A database administrator has been asked to configure a database management system so that it records all changes made by users - The DBA should implement ___________. This will cause the database to record every change that is made to it.






13. 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






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






15. The risk that a material error exists that will not be prevented or detected by the organization's control framework - The possibility that a process or procedure will be unable to prevent or deter serious errors and wrongdoing.






16. An estimate that expresses the percent of errors or exceptions that may exist in an entire population






17. A critical application is backed up once per day. The recovery point objective (RPO) for an application that is backed up once per day cannot be ________.






18. 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






19. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.






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






21. Support the functioning of the application controls






22. The party that performs strategic planning - addresses near-term and long-term requirements aligning business objectives - and technology strategies.






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






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






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






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






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






28. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)






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






30. 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






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






32. Gantt: used to display ______________.






33. Outsourcing is an opportunity for the organization to focus on core competencies. When an organization oursources a business function - it no longer needs to be concerned about training employees in that function. Outsources does not always reduce co






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. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.






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






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






38. 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.






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






40. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






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






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






43. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






44. 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.






45. 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






46. 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.






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






48. 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






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






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