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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.






2. 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






3. (1.) Utility (DNS - SNMP - DHCP (2.) Messaging protocols (SMTP) (3.) Data Transfer protocols (NFS - FTP) (4.) Interactive protocols (Telnet)






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






5. 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






6. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.






7. (1.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication






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






9. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






10. 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.






11. 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






12. 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






13. (1.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas






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






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






16. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them






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






18. Handle application processing






19. 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.






20. A computer uses RAM for several purposes: (1.) Operating System - to store info regarding running processes (2.) ____________ - that are used to temporarily store information retrieved from hard disks (3.) Storage of program code (4.) Storage of prog






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






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






23. 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






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






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






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






27. 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.






28. n audit strategy and plans that include: (1.) Scope (2.) Objectives (3.) Resources (4.) Procedures used to evaluation controls and processes






29. 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






30. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






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






33. 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.






34. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.






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






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






37. 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.






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






39. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices






40. 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.






41. (1.) Feasibility Study (2.) Definition of Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation phase






42. An organization that has experienced a sudden increase in its long-distance charges has asked an auditor to investigate. The auditor is most likely to suspect that intruders have discovered a ______________________and is committing toll fraud.

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43. (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






44. 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






45. An IS auditor has discovered a high-risk exception during control testing. The best course of action for the IS auditor to take - The IS auditor should immediately ________________ when any high-risk situation is discovered.






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






47. (1.) MPLS (2.) SONET (3.) T-Carrier (4.) Frame Relay (5.) ISDN (6.) X.25






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






49. 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.






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