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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 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.






2. ____________________ 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






3. (1.) Authentication (2.) Authorization (3.) Change Management (4.) Completeness checks (5.) Validation checks (6.) Input controls (7.) Output controls (8.) Problem management (9.) Identification/access controls






4. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.






5. Should include 4 steps: (1.) Emergency Approval (2.) Implementation (3.) Verification (4.) Review






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






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






8. 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.






9. During the development phase - Developers should only be performing Unit Testing - to verify that the individual sections of code they have written are performing properly.






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






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






12. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.






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






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






15. 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.






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






17. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






18. 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.)






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






21. 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






22. 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.






23. 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.






24. To measure organizational performance and effectiveness against strategic goals.






25. 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.






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






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






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






29. 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?






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






31. 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.






32. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






33. 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






34. 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.






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






36. Who is responsible for imposing an IT governance model encompassing IT strategy - information security - and formal enterprise architectural mandates?






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






38. To ensure that input values are within established ranges - of the correct character types - and free of harmful contents.






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






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






41. The maximum period of downtime for a process or application






42. (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






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






44. 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






45. 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 ________.






46. 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






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






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






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






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