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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.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning






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






3. A programmer is updating an application that saves passwords in plaintext. In this case - Passwords should be stored in a _____. This makes it impossible for any person to retrieve a password - which could lead to account compromise.






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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






10. A sampling technique where items are chosen at random; each item has a statistically equal probability of being chosen.






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






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






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






14. 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.






15. An audit of an accounting system - accounting department processes - and procedures to determine if business controls are sufficient to ensure the integrity of financial statements.






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






17. An IS auditor has discovered a high-risk exception during control testing. The best course of action for the IS auditor to take - The IS auditor should immediately ________________ when any high-risk situation is discovered.






18. 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 _________________.






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






20. 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.






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






22. The memory locations in the CPU where arithmetic values are stored.






23. 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.






24. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act






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






26. Gantt: used to display ______________.






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






28. 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






29. 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.






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






31. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.






32. 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






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






34. 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






35. (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






36. 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.)






37. A condition that is the result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms e.g. A web application is displaying information incorrectly and many users have contacted the IT service desk.






38. 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.






39. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






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






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






42. An organization that has experienced a sudden increase in its long-distance charges has asked an auditor to investigate. The auditor is most likely to suspect that intruders have discovered a ______________________and is committing toll fraud.

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






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






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






46. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






47. n audit strategy and plans that include: (1.) Scope (2.) Objectives (3.) Resources (4.) Procedures used to evaluation controls and processes






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






49. The means by which management establishes and measures processes by which organizational objectives are achieved






50. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.