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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. (1.) Utility (DNS - SNMP - DHCP (2.) Messaging protocols (SMTP) (3.) Data Transfer protocols (NFS - FTP) (4.) Interactive protocols (Telnet)






2. 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






3. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality






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






6. 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






7. (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






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






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






10. (1.) Physical (2.) Technical (4.) Administrative






11. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.






12. 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.






13. 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.






14. An audit of a third-party organization that provides services to other organizations.






15. 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.






16. 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 ________.






17. (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






18. 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






19. (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






20. 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






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






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






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






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






25. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






26. An external IS auditor has discovered a _______________________ - The external auditor can only document the finding in the audit report. An external auditor is not in a position to implement controls.






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






28. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine the numeric total of a specific attribute from the entire population.






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






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






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






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






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






34. A condition that is the result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms e.g. A web application is displaying information incorrectly and many users have contacted the IT service desk.






35. An IS auditor is examining the IT standards document for an organization that was last reviewed two years earlier. The best course of action for the IS auditor is: Report that the ____________________________. Two years is far too long between revie






36. 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.






37. 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.






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






39. 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?






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






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






42. 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






43. 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






44. 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.






45. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






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






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






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






50. Support the functioning of the application controls