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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. External auditors are needed under these conditions: (1.) When the organization ________________________. (2.) Some regulations and standards require external - independent auditors






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






3. 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.






4. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






5. 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






6. A software developer has informed the project manager that a portion of the application development is going to take five additional days to complete. The project manager make a __________________ to document the reason for the change.






7. 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.






8. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






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






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






12. A condition often identified as a result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms. Problems can also be identified from a single significant incident for which the impact is significant.






13. (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






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






15. A field in a record in one table that can reference a primary key in another table that can reference a primary key in another table.






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






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






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






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






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






21. 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






22. 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.






23. (1.) Physical (2.) Technical (4.) Administrative






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. An auditor has discovered that several administrators in an application share an administrative account. The auditor should recommend that - Several __________________ should be used. This will enforce accountability for each administrator's actions.






38. 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






39. An IS auditor needs to perform an audit of a financial system and needs to trace individual transactions through the system. What type of testing should the auditor perform?






40. Guide program execution through organization of resources and development of clear project objectives.






41. 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 ________.






42. 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.






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






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






45. 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






46. 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.






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






48. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review






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






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