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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.






2. (1.) Access controls (2.) Encryption (3.) Audit logging






3. (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






4. Aids in the coordinating of business processes using a sequence of three events -(1.) Business process creation (2.) Implementation (3.) Maintenance 3a. Benchmarking: Facilitates continuous improvement within the BPLC






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






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






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






8. 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.






9. Handle application processing






10. 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.)






11. (1.) Developers (2.) Architects (3.) Analysts (4.) Users






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






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






14. 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.






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. Define 10 elements of an Audit - (1.) Subject of audit (2.) Audit Objective (3.) Type of audit (4.) Audit scope (5.) Pre-audit planning (6.) Audit procedures (7.) Communication plan (8.) Report Preparation (9.) Wrap-up (10.) Post-audit follow-up






17. 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.






18. The process of recording the configuration of IT systems. Each configuration setting is known in ITSM parlance as a Configuration Item.






19. Information is arranged in frames and transported across the medium. Collision detection. Checksum verification of delivery.






20. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider






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






22. 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






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






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






25. 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 _________________.






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






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






28. 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.






29. The purpose of an auditor doing interviews - To observe personnel to better understand their discipline - as well as ______________.






30. 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.






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






32. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






33. Subjective sampling is used when the auditor wants to _________________________.






34. A sampling technique where at least one exception is sought in a population






35. 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






36. 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.






37. 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






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






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






40. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






42. Gantt: used to display ______________.






43. 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






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






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






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






47. 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.






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






49. 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






50. (1.) General (2.) Application