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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 highest number of errors that can exist without a result being materially misstated.






2. An audit report usually includes the following 10 elements: (1.) Cover letter (2.) Introduction (3.) Summary (4.) Audit description (5.) _______________ (6.) Interviewees (7.) Evidence (8.) Explanation of sampling techniques (9.) Findings (10.) Recom






3. Gantt: used to display ______________.






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






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






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






7. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






8. Who is responsible for imposing an IT governance model encompassing IT strategy - information security - and formal enterprise architectural mandates?






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






10. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.






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






12. Support the functioning of the application controls






13. An IS auditor is examining the IT standards document for an organization that was last reviewed two years earlier. The best course of action for the IS auditor is: Report that the ____________________________. Two years is far too long between revie






14. (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






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






16. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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






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






19. 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 ________.






20. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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.






28. Used to estimate the effort required to develop a software program.






29. ____________________ of the hot site is most important consideration for site selection. IF they are too close together then a single event may involve both locations






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






31. 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






32. 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






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






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






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






36. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.






37. 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.






38. 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.






39. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application






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






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






42. 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






43. 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.






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






45. The process to ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of all changes.






46. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






48. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






49. Handle application processing






50. 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)