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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. To determine effectiveness of a disaster recovery program - an IT auditor should examine _____________.






2. 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.






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






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






5. 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.






6. 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






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






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






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






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






11. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.






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






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






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






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






16. Handle application processing






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






18. A collection of two or more servers that is designed to appear as a single server.






19. Any event which is not part of the standard operation of service and which causes or may cause an interruption to or reduction in quality of that service. Includes THREE incident types: (1.) Service Outage (2.) Service Slowdown (3.) Software Bug






20. 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.






21. 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






22. 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.






23. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.






24. 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.






25. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.






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






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






28. ____________________ 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






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






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






31. 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.






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






33. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






34. A tightly coupled collection of computers that are used to solve a common task. One or more actively perform tasks - while zero or more may be in a standby state.






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






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






37. 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






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






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






40. (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






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






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






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






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






45. 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






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






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






48. What activity involves the identification of potential risk and the appropriate response for each threat based on impact assessment using qualitative and/or quantitative measures for an enterprise-wide risk management strategy?






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






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