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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






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






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






4. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






5. 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.






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






7. 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






8. 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.






9. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application






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






11. 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.






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






13. 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






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






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






16. 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.






17. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






19. An organization is building a data center in an area frequented by power outages. The organization cannot tolerate power outages. The best _________________solution is an electric generator and an uninterruptible power supply. The UPS responds to the






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






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






22. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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.






29. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.






30. 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






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






32. (1.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas






33. The purpose of an auditor doing interviews - To observe personnel to better understand their discipline - as well as ______________.






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






35. What type of testing is performed to verify the accuracy and integrity of transactions as they flow through a system?






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






37. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






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






40. 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 ________.






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






42. 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






43. Handle application processing






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






45. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






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






48. 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






49. 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.






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