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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. (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






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






4. 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.






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






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






7. 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.






8. 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.






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






10. 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.






11. 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.






12. A sampling technique where items are chosen at random; each item has a statistically equal probability of being chosen.






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






14. 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.)






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






16. An organization wants to reduce the number of user IDs and passwords that its employees need to remember. The best available solution to this - _______________. This provides a single authentication service (such as LDAP or AD) that many applications






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






18. 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.






19. n audit strategy and plans that include: (1.) Scope (2.) Objectives (3.) Resources (4.) Procedures used to evaluation controls and processes






20. 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.






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






22. (1.) General (2.) Application






23. 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






24. 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






25. (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






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






27. A tightly coupled collection of computers that are used to solve a common task. One or more actively perform tasks - while zero or more may be in a standby state.






28. 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






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






30. The result of strategic planning - process development - and systems development - which all contribute towards a launch of business operations to reach a set of business objectives.






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






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






33. What activity involves the identification of potential risk and the appropriate response for each threat based on impact assessment using qualitative and/or quantitative measures for an enterprise-wide risk management strategy?






34. 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.






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






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






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






38. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.






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






40. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Governance and control framework (3.) Control Objectives (4.) Management Guidelines (5.) Implementation Guide (6.) IT Assurance Guide






41. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.






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






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






44. 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






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






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






47. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records






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






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






50. Subjective sampling is used when the auditor wants to _________________________.