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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. (1.) Access controls (2.) Encryption (3.) Audit logging






2. An audit of an IS department's operations and systems.






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






4. Define 10 elements of an Audit - (1.) Subject of audit (2.) Audit Objective (3.) Type of audit (4.) Audit scope (5.) Pre-audit planning (6.) Audit procedures (7.) Communication plan (8.) Report Preparation (9.) Wrap-up (10.) Post-audit follow-up






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






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






7. 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.






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






9. 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






10. 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






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






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






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






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






15. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.






16. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine how many samples possess a specific characteristic.






17. 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.






18. ____________________ 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






19. An organization is building a data center in an area frequented by power outages. The organization cannot tolerate power outages. The best _________________solution is an electric generator and an uninterruptible power supply. The UPS responds to the






20. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine the numeric total of a specific attribute from the entire population.






21. (1.) Develop a BC Policy (2.) Conduct BIA (3.) Perform critical analysis (4.) Establish recovery targets (5.) Develop recovery and continuity strategies and plans (6.) Test recovery and continuity plans and procedures Train personnel Maintain strateg






22. 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.






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






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






25. An organization wants to reduce the number of user IDs and passwords that its employees need to remember. The best available solution to this - _______________. This provides a single authentication service (such as LDAP or AD) that many applications






26. 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 _________________.






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






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






29. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






30. 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.






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






32. 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






33. 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






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






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






36. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






37. Gantt: used to display ______________.






38. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.






39. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






45. A collection of two or more servers that is designed to appear as a single server.






46. A tightly coupled collection of computers that are used to solve a common task. One or more actively perform tasks - while zero or more may be in a standby state.






47. 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.






48. 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






49. 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.






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