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






2. Gantt: used to display ______________.






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






4. 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.






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






6. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






7. 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.






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






9. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample






10. 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






11. Delivery of packets from one station to another - on the same network or on different networks.






12. 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






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






14. 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.






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






16. (1.) LAN protocols (2.) 80 (2.) 11 MAC/LLC (WiFi) (3.) Common Carrier packet networks (4.) ARP (5.) PPP and SLIP (6.) Tunneling - PPTP - L2TP






17. 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.






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






19. 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






20. 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






21. 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






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






23. 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.






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






25. 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?






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






27. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






29. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Governance and control framework (3.) Control Objectives (4.) Management Guidelines (5.) Implementation Guide (6.) IT Assurance Guide






30. 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






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






32. 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






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






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






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






36. 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.






37. 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.)






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






39. 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






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






41. The IS auditor should conduct a risk assessment first to determine which areas have highest risk. She should devote more testing resources to those high-risk areas.






42. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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






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






45. 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






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






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






48. 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






49. Outsourcing is an opportunity for the organization to focus on core competencies. When an organization oursources a business function - it no longer needs to be concerned about training employees in that function. Outsources does not always reduce co






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