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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. IS auditors can _____________________ through the following means: (1.) training courses (2.) webinars (3.) ISACA chapter training events (4.) Industry conferences






2. 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






3. Critical Path Methodology helps a project manager determine which activities are on a project's critical list - ________________________.






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






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






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






7. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.






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






9. 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.






10. 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






11. 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






12. 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.)






13. 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 ________.






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






15. Collections of Controls that work together to achieve an entire range of an organization's objectives.






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






17. 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.






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






19. 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






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






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






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






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






24. 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.






25. 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.






26. 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






27. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.






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






29. 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






30. Information is arranged in frames and transported across the medium. Collision detection. Checksum verification of delivery.






31. 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?






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






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






34. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






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






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






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






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






40. (1.) Reliable delivery (2.) Connection oriented (persistent connection) (3.) Order of Delivery (4.) Flow Control (transfer rate is throttled) (5.) Port Number






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






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






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






44. An organization experiences frequent malware infections on end-user workstations that are received through email - despite the tact that workstations have anti-virus software. To reducing malware - Implementing ________________ will provide an effect






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






46. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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






48. 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 _________________.






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