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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. (1.) Feasibility Study (2.) Definition of Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation phase






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






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






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






5. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






6. To measure organizational performance and effectiveness against strategic goals.






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






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






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






10. A field in a record in one table that can reference a primary key in another table that can reference a primary key in another table.






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






12. 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






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






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






15. 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






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






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






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






19. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.






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






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






22. (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






23. Handle application processing






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






25. A sampling technique where a population is divided into classes or strata - based upon the value of one of the attributes. Samples are then selected from each class.






26. (1.) General (2.) Application






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






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






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






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






31. 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






32. 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






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






34. What three elements allow validation of business practices against acceptable measures of regulatory compliance - performance - and standard operational guidelines.






35. Guide program execution through organization of resources and development of clear project objectives.






36. Used to schedule and sequence activities in a waterfall-type representation. Planned activities are shown flowing downward to completion. More simplistic than a PERT Diagram.






37. 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.






38. 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.






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






40. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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






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






43. 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.






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






45. An audit of operational efficiency.






46. (1.) Authentication (2.) Authorization (3.) Change Management (4.) Completeness checks (5.) Validation checks (6.) Input controls (7.) Output controls (8.) Problem management (9.) Identification/access controls






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






48. 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 ________.






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






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.