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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Focuses on: post-event recovery and restoration of services






2. Application controls limit ___________ in three ways: (1.) Point of Entry (Input Controls) (2.) During consumption (process controls) (3.) At the point of expression (Output Controls)






3. 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.






4. A database term - which means that the database will not permit a program (or user) to deleted rows from a table if there are records in other tables whose foreign keys reference the row to be deleted.






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






6. A quantitative risk analysis is __________________ because: It is difficult to get accurate figures on the frequency of specific threats. It is difficult to determine the probability that a threat will be realized. It is relatively easy to determine






7. 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






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






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






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






11. (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






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






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






14. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.






15. The portion of IT management that tracks the financial value of IT services that support organizational objectives. It includes 4 activities: (1.) Budgeting (2.) Capital Investment (3.) Expense Management (4.) Project accounting and project ROI (Ret






16. (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






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






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






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






20. 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






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






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






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






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






25. Used to control connections that are established between systems (1.) TCP (2.) IPC (3.) SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) (4.) RPC (Remote Procedure Call) (5.) NetBIOS






26. An audit of an accounting system - accounting department processes - and procedures to determine if business controls are sufficient to ensure the integrity of financial statements.






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






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






29. A large number of loosely coupled computers that are used to solve a common task may be in close proximity to each other or scattered over a large geographical area.






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






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






32. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






33. 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






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






35. 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?






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






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






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






39. 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.






40. 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.






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






42. A sampling technique used to permit sampling to stop at the earliest possible time. This technique is used when the auditor feels that there is a low risk or low rate of exceptions in the population.






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






44. 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






45. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.






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






47. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems






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






49. (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






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