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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A collection of two or more servers that is designed to appear as a single server.






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






3. 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.






4. 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.






5. 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.






6. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application






7. 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






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






9. 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.






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






11. 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






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






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






14. 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?






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






16. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.






17. An audit that is performed in support of an anticipated or active legal proceeding.






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






19. To ensure that input values are within established ranges - of the correct character types - and free of harmful contents.






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






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






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






23. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






24. 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






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






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






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






28. 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.






29. 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.






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






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






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






33. 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






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






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






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






37. 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






38. What activity involves the identification of potential risk and the appropriate response for each threat based on impact assessment using qualitative and/or quantitative measures for an enterprise-wide risk management strategy?






39. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.






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






41. 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






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






43. 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






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






45. Used to schedule and sequence activities in a waterfall-type representation. Planned activities are shown flowing downward to completion. More simplistic than a PERT Diagram.






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






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






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






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






50. 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.