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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Guide program execution through organization of resources and development of clear project objectives.






2. An auditor has detected potential fraud while testing a control objective - He should ___________________. Because Audit committee members are generally not involved in business operations - they will be sufficiently remove from the matter - and they






3. An audit of operational efficiency.






4. The means by which management establishes and measures processes by which organizational objectives are achieved






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






6. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






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






9. Support the functioning of the application controls






10. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






12. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified






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






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






15. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.






16. 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.






17. A condition that is the result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms e.g. A web application is displaying information incorrectly and many users have contacted the IT service desk.






18. 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






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






20. During an audit - the auditor should obtain 6 types of documents - (1.) Org charts (2.) ___________ (3.) third-party contracts (4.) policies and procedures (5.) standards (6.) system documentation






21. 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






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






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






24. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider






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. 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.






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






28. (1.) Authentication (2.) Authorization (3.) Change Management (4.) Completeness checks (5.) Validation checks (6.) Input controls (7.) Output controls (8.) Problem management (9.) Identification/access controls






29. 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






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






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






32. 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.






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






34. 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.






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. 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






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






39. A facility that is used to store and manage access to an organization's application source and object code. It consists of 5 parts: (1.) Access and authorization controls (2.) Program checkout (3.) Program Check-in (4.) Version Control (5.) Code Ana






40. 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






41. 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.






42. 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.






43. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration






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






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






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






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






48. 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.






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






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)