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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






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






3. 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






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






5. Framework for auditing and measuring IT Service Management Processes.






6. 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.






7. An auditor has discovered that several administrators in an application share an administrative account. The auditor should recommend that - Several __________________ should be used. This will enforce accountability for each administrator's actions.






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






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






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






11. (1.) General (2.) Application






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






13. ____________________ 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






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






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






16. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






18. (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






19. 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.






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






21. 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 ________.






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






23. (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






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






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






26. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review






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






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






29. 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






30. 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.






31. 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.






32. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






33. 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






34. An audit of operational efficiency.






35. 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






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






37. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






39. The primary source for test plans in a software development project is: ________________ that are developed for a project should be the primary source for detailed tests.






40. The annual expected loss to an asset. It is calculated as the single loss expectancy (SLE) X the annualized rate of occurrence (ARO.)






41. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.






42. 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.)






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






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






45. 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)






46. 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






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






48. The 5 types of risks that are related to audits include: (1.) Control Risk (2.) Detection Risk (3.) Inherent risk (4.) _____________ (5.) Sampling risk






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






50. During an audit - the auditor should obtain 6 types of documents - (1.) Org charts (2.) ___________ (3.) third-party contracts (4.) policies and procedures (5.) standards (6.) system documentation