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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.






2. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






4. 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






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






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






7. 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






8. Used to estimate the effort required to develop a software program.






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






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






11. To determine effectiveness of a disaster recovery program - an IT auditor should examine _____________.






12. The risk that a material error exists that will not be prevented or detected by the organization's control framework - The possibility that a process or procedure will be unable to prevent or deter serious errors and wrongdoing.






13. (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






14. An estimate that expresses the percent of errors or exceptions that may exist in an entire population






15. Gantt: used to display ______________.






16. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.






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






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






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






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






21. 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.






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






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






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






25. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






27. 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.






28. Deliver messages from one station to another on the same network or on different networks. Messaging at this layer is not guaranteed.






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






30. 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?






31. 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






32. (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






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






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






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






36. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






37. 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.






38. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time






39. 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.






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






41. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.






42. 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.






43. 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






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






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






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






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






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






50. 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