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






3. 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.






4. A sampling technique where items are chosen at random; each item has a statistically equal probability of being chosen.






5. 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.






6. The main hardware component of a computer system - which executes instructions in computer programs.






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






8. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






9. (1.) MPLS (2.) SONET (3.) T-Carrier (4.) Frame Relay (5.) ISDN (6.) X.25






10. 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






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






12. 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






13. 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






14. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.






15. 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.






16. (1.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication






17. 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






18. An auditor is examining a key management process and has found that the IT department is not following its split-custody procedure. As a result - Someone may be in possession of the _________________.






19. 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.






20. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






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






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






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






25. 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






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






27. 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






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






29. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.






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






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






32. A condition often identified as a result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms. Problems can also be identified from a single significant incident for which the impact is significant.






33. 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.






34. Support the functioning of the application controls






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. 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






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






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






39. 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






40. 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.






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






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






43. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.






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






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






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






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






48. 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






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






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