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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






2. (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






3. 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






4. 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






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






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






7. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems






8. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices






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






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






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






13. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.






14. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.






15. (1.) Utility (DNS - SNMP - DHCP (2.) Messaging protocols (SMTP) (3.) Data Transfer protocols (NFS - FTP) (4.) Interactive protocols (Telnet)






16. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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






18. What three elements allow validation of business practices against acceptable measures of regulatory compliance - performance - and standard operational guidelines.






19. 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.






20. (1.) General (2.) Application






21. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.






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






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






24. 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






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






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






27. 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






28. Application controls limit ___________ in three ways: (1.) Point of Entry (Input Controls) (2.) During consumption (process controls) (3.) At the point of expression (Output Controls)






29. An auditor has discovered several errors in user account management: many terminated employees' computer accounts are still active. The best course of action - To improve the _________________ to reduce the number of exceptions. For a time - the proc






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






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






32. 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






33. 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






34. An organization is building a data center in an area frequented by power outages. The organization cannot tolerate power outages. The best _________________solution is an electric generator and an uninterruptible power supply. The UPS responds to the






35. 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 ________.






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






37. 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






38. 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 _________________.






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






40. 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.






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






42. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - as the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient.






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






44. 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






45. A Fire sprinkler system has water in its pipes - and sprinkler heads emit water only if the ambient temperature reaches 220 deg. F. This is a ________________. The system is charged with water and will discharge water out of any sprinkler head whose






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






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






48. 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.






49. (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






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.