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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. (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






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






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. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.






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






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






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






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






9. 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






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






11. An audit report usually includes the following 10 elements: (1.) Cover letter (2.) Introduction (3.) Summary (4.) Audit description (5.) _______________ (6.) Interviewees (7.) Evidence (8.) Explanation of sampling techniques (9.) Findings (10.) Recom






12. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






14. 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 ________.






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






16. 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?






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






18. Any event which is not part of the standard operation of service and which causes or may cause an interruption to or reduction in quality of that service. Includes THREE incident types: (1.) Service Outage (2.) Service Slowdown (3.) Software Bug






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






20. The main hardware component of a computer system - which executes instructions in computer programs.






21. A tightly coupled collection of computers that are used to solve a common task. One or more actively perform tasks - while zero or more may be in a standby state.






22. 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.






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






24. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






25. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review






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






27. 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






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






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. Who is responsible for imposing an IT governance model encompassing IT strategy - information security - and formal enterprise architectural mandates?






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






32. To review and approve proposed changes to systems and infrastructure. This helps to reduce the risk of unintended events and unplanned downtime.






33. 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.


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






35. 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






36. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.






37. To communication security policies - procedures - and other security-related information to an organization's employees.






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






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






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






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






46. 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






47. 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.






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






49. 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.






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