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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.






2. Critical Path Methodology helps a project manager determine which activities are on a project's critical list - ________________________.






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






4. 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






5. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






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






8. 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.






9. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






10. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.






11. 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.






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






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






14. 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






15. 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.






16. 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






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






18. 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






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






20. (1.) General (2.) Application






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






22. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






24. 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






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






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






27. 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.






28. 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.






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






30. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.






31. 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.






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






33. (1.) LAN protocols (2.) 80 (2.) 11 MAC/LLC (WiFi) (3.) Common Carrier packet networks (4.) ARP (5.) PPP and SLIP (6.) Tunneling - PPTP - L2TP






34. Support the functioning of the application controls






35. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






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






38. A software developer has informed the project manager that a portion of the application development is going to take five additional days to complete. The project manager make a __________________ to document the reason for the change.






39. 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 ________.






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






41. An auditor is examining a key management process and has found that the IT department is not following its split-custody procedure. As a result - Someone may be in possession of the _________________.






42. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery






43. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.






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






45. 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






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






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






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






49. 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






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