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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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1. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






2. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.






3. 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)






4. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. Used to measure the relative maturity of an organization and its processes.






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






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






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






16. An auditor has discovered several errors in user account management: many terminated employees' computer accounts are still active. The best course of action - To improve the _________________ to reduce the number of exceptions. For a time - the proc






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






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






19. (1.) IP (2.) ICMP (3.) RRC (Radio Resource Control) (4.) AppleTalk






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






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. 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.






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






24. 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






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






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






27. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning






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






29. 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.






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






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






32. A Fire sprinkler system has water in its pipes - and sprinkler heads emit water only if the ambient temperature reaches 220 deg. F. This is a ________________. The system is charged with water and will discharge water out of any sprinkler head whose






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






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






35. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.






36. 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.






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






38. An audit that is performed in support of an anticipated or active legal proceeding.






39. The set of activities that is concerned with the ability of the organization to continue to provide services - primarily in the event that a natural or man made disaster has occurred.






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






41. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance






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






43. 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.






44. 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.






45. 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






46. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.






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






48. (1.) General (2.) Application






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






50. An organization wants to reduce the number of user IDs and passwords that its employees need to remember. The best available solution to this - _______________. This provides a single authentication service (such as LDAP or AD) that many applications