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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine how many samples possess a specific characteristic.






2. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.






3. Focuses on: post-event recovery and restoration of services






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






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






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






7. 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.






8. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






9. ____________________ of the hot site is most important consideration for site selection. IF they are too close together then a single event may involve both locations






10. Handle application processing






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. 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.






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






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






15. 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






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






17. 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






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






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






20. 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.






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






22. 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.






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






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






25. 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?






26. A Fire sprinkler system has water in its pipes - and sprinkler heads emit water only if the ambient temperature reaches 220 deg. F. This is a ________________. The system is charged with water and will discharge water out of any sprinkler head whose






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






28. A facility that is used to store and manage access to an organization's application source and object code. It consists of 5 parts: (1.) Access and authorization controls (2.) Program checkout (3.) Program Check-in (4.) Version Control (5.) Code Ana






29. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.






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






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






32. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration






33. Delivery of packets from one station to another - on the same network or on different networks.






34. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance






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






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






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






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






39. 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.)






40. 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.






41. 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






42. 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.






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






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






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






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






47. 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






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






49. A sampling technique where a population is divided into classes or strata - based upon the value of one of the attributes. Samples are then selected from each class.






50. 0. No process at all (1.) Process are ad hoc and disorganized (2.) Consistent processes (3.) Documented processes (4.) Measured and managed processes (5.) Processes are continuously improved