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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems






2. 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






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






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






5. A CMM helps an organization to _______________ - which is an important first step to any large-scale process improvement effort.






6. 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






7. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






9. 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 _________________.






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






11. 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.






12. (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






13. The 5 types of risks that are related to audits include: (1.) Control Risk (2.) Detection Risk (3.) Inherent risk (4.) _____________ (5.) Sampling risk






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






15. 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.






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






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






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






19. 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






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






21. 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






22. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Framework (3.) Reporting to External Parties (4.) Evaluation Tools






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






24. 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






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






26. An IS auditor is auditing the change management process for a financial application. The auditor has two primary pieces of evidence: change logs and a written analysis of the change logs performed by a business analyst. The change log is best because






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






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






29. To review and approve proposed changes to systems and infrastructure. This helps to reduce the risk of unintended events and unplanned downtime.






30. 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.






31. A condition often identified as a result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms. Problems can also be identified from a single significant incident for which the impact is significant.






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






33. 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






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






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






36. A sampling technique where items are chosen at random; each item has a statistically equal probability of being chosen.






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






38. (1.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas






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






40. The primary source for test plans in a software development project is: ________________ that are developed for a project should be the primary source for detailed tests.






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






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






43. (1.) Access Control (2.) Change Management (3.) Security Controls (4.) Incident Management (5.) SDLC (6.) Source code and versioning controls (7.) Monitoring and logging (8.) Event Management






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






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






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






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






48. The set of activities that is concerned with the ability of the organization to continue to provide services - primarily in the event that a natural or man made disaster has occurred.






49. (1.) General (2.) Application






50. The party that performs strategic planning - addresses near-term and long-term requirements aligning business objectives - and technology strategies.