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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






2. 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.






3. 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






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






5. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient






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






7. 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.






8. 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.






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






14. 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






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






16. (1.) Utility (DNS - SNMP - DHCP (2.) Messaging protocols (SMTP) (3.) Data Transfer protocols (NFS - FTP) (4.) Interactive protocols (Telnet)






17. An audit of an IS department's operations and systems.






18. 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






19. A field in a record in one table that can reference a primary key in another table that can reference a primary key in another table.






20. A dynamically scalable and usually virtualized computing environment that is provided as a service. Clout computing services may be rented or leased so that an organization can have a scalable application without the need for supporting hardware.






21. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. 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






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






33. Gantt: used to display ______________.






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






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






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






37. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






38. (1.) Access Control (2.) Change Management (3.) Security Controls (4.) Incident Management (5.) SDLC (6.) Source code and versioning controls (7.) Monitoring and logging (8.) Event Management






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






40. 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






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






42. 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.






43. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






44. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment






45. External auditors are needed under these conditions: (1.) When the organization ________________________. (2.) Some regulations and standards require external - independent auditors






46. 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






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






48. An IS auditor is auditing the change management process for a financial application. The auditor has two primary pieces of evidence: change logs and a written analysis of the change logs performed by a business analyst. The change log is best because






49. One of a database table's fields - whose value is unique.






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