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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.






2. ____________________ 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






3. 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.






4. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






6. 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






7. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act






8. 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 ________.






9. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)






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






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






12. 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






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






14. 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.






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






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






17. 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






18. 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






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






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






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






22. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.






23. Handle application processing






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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.)






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






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






32. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.






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






34. 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?






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






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






37. During an audit - the auditor should obtain 6 types of documents - (1.) Org charts (2.) ___________ (3.) third-party contracts (4.) policies and procedures (5.) standards (6.) system documentation






38. 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






39. 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






40. (1.) IP (2.) ICMP (3.) RRC (Radio Resource Control) (4.) AppleTalk






41. To communication security policies - procedures - and other security-related information to an organization's employees.






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






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






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






45. In Release Management - _________________ means that each step of the release process undergoes formal review and approval before the next step is allowed to begin.






46. 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






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






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






49. 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.






50. 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