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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. To ensure that input values are within established ranges - of the correct character types - and free of harmful contents.






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






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






4. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.






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






6. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine how many samples possess a specific characteristic.






7. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.






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






9. 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






10. Focuses on: maintaining service availability with the least disruption to standard operating parameters during an event






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






12. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






13. 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






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






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






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






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






18. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.






19. 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.






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






21. 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






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






23. Focuses on: post-event recovery and restoration of services






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






25. What type of testing is performed to verify the accuracy and integrity of transactions as they flow through a system?






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






27. 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






28. A sampling technique where a population is divided into classes or strata - based upon the value of one of the attributes. Samples are then selected from each class.






29. 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 ________.






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






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






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






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






34. 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?






35. 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






36. In Release Management - _________________ means that each step of the release process undergoes formal review and approval before the next step is allowed to begin.






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






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






39. To communication security policies - procedures - and other security-related information to an organization's employees.






40. Consists of 11 distinct activities: (1.) Service Desk (2.) Incident Management (3.) Problem Management (4.) Change Management (5.) Configuration Management (6.) Release Management (7.) Service-level Management (8.) Financial Management (9.) Capacity






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






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






43. 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






44. 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.






45. 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?






46. Support the functioning of the application controls






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






48. 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.


49. To review and approve proposed changes to systems and infrastructure. This helps to reduce the risk of unintended events and unplanned downtime.






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