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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. n audit strategy and plans that include: (1.) Scope (2.) Objectives (3.) Resources (4.) Procedures used to evaluation controls and processes






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






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






4. External auditors are needed under these conditions: (1.) When the organization ________________________. (2.) Some regulations and standards require external - independent auditors






5. 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






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






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






8. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






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






11. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)






12. (1.) Utility (DNS - SNMP - DHCP (2.) Messaging protocols (SMTP) (3.) Data Transfer protocols (NFS - FTP) (4.) Interactive protocols (Telnet)






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






14. An auditor has detected potential fraud while testing a control objective - He should ___________________. Because Audit committee members are generally not involved in business operations - they will be sufficiently remove from the matter - and they






15. 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 _________________.






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






17. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






18. An organization is building a data center in an area frequented by power outages. The organization cannot tolerate power outages. The best _________________solution is an electric generator and an uninterruptible power supply. The UPS responds to the






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






20. Gantt: used to display ______________.






21. 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.)






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






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






24. 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.






25. 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






26. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified






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






28. 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






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. An IS auditor needs to perform an audit of a financial system and needs to trace individual transactions through the system. What type of testing should the auditor perform?






31. (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






32. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






33. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.






34. 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






35. The party that performs strategic planning - addresses near-term and long-term requirements aligning business objectives - and technology strategies.






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






37. A software developer has informed the project manager that a portion of the application development is going to take five additional days to complete. The project manager make a __________________ to document the reason for the change.






38. 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






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






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






41. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






42. 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






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






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






45. 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






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






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






48. 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






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






50. 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.