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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. 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






3. An external IS auditor has discovered a _______________________ - The external auditor can only document the finding in the audit report. An external auditor is not in a position to implement controls.






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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






10. In Release Management - _________________ means that each step of the release process undergoes formal review and approval before the next step is allowed to begin.






11. An auditor has reviewed access privileges of some employees and has discovered that employees with longer terms of service have excessive privileges. This means User privileges are not being removed from their old position when they transfer to a new






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






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






14. 0. No process at all (1.) Process are ad hoc and disorganized (2.) Consistent processes (3.) Documented processes (4.) Measured and managed processes (5.) Processes are continuously improved






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






16. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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. Support the functioning of the application controls






19. 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 ________.






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






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






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






23. 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.






24. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






26. 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?






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






28. 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






29. 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.






30. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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






32. 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






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






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






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






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






37. 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






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






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






40. (1.) General (2.) Application






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






42. 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.






43. The highest number of errors that can exist without a result being materially misstated.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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