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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 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.






2. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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.






11. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






13. Aids in the coordinating of business processes using a sequence of three events -(1.) Business process creation (2.) Implementation (3.) Maintenance 3a. Benchmarking: Facilitates continuous improvement within the BPLC






14. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Governance and control framework (3.) Control Objectives (4.) Management Guidelines (5.) Implementation Guide (6.) IT Assurance Guide






15. 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.






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






17. Define 10 elements of an Audit - (1.) Subject of audit (2.) Audit Objective (3.) Type of audit (4.) Audit scope (5.) Pre-audit planning (6.) Audit procedures (7.) Communication plan (8.) Report Preparation (9.) Wrap-up (10.) Post-audit follow-up






18. 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






19. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them






20. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.






21. Used to estimate the effort required to develop a software program.






22. 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






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






24. 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.






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






26. Support the functioning of the application controls






27. A computer uses RAM for several purposes: (1.) Operating System - to store info regarding running processes (2.) ____________ - that are used to temporarily store information retrieved from hard disks (3.) Storage of program code (4.) Storage of prog






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






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






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






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. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






33. 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.






34. 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.






35. 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






36. 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






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






38. 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






39. 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.






40. 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






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






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






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






44. 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.






45. An auditor has discovered that several administrators in an application share an administrative account. The auditor should recommend that - Several __________________ should be used. This will enforce accountability for each administrator's actions.






46. A sampling technique where at least one exception is sought in a population






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






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






49. (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






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