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






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






3. A sampling technique used to permit sampling to stop at the earliest possible time. This technique is used when the auditor feels that there is a low risk or low rate of exceptions in the population.






4. 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






5. 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.






6. 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.






7. 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.






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






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






10. 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?






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






12. 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






13. (1.) Feasibility Study (2.) Definition of Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation phase






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






15. Used to control connections that are established between systems (1.) TCP (2.) IPC (3.) SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) (4.) RPC (Remote Procedure Call) (5.) NetBIOS






16. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.






17. 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.)






18. 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.






19. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






20. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






22. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.






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






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






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






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






27. (1.) Reliable delivery (2.) Connection oriented (persistent connection) (3.) Order of Delivery (4.) Flow Control (transfer rate is throttled) (5.) Port Number






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






29. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






35. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records






36. 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.






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






38. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






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






41. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.






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






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