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






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






3. 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.






4. The highest number of errors that can exist without a result being materially misstated.






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






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






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






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






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






10. (1.) Developers (2.) Architects (3.) Analysts (4.) Users






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






12. Consists of 11 distinct activities: (1.) Service Desk (2.) Incident Management (3.) Problem Management (4.) Change Management (5.) Configuration Management (6.) Release Management (7.) Service-level Management (8.) Financial Management (9.) Capacity






13. Gantt: used to display ______________.






14. 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






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






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






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






18. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.






19. 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






20. Deliver messages from one station to another on the same network or on different networks. Messaging at this layer is not guaranteed.






21. 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






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






23. 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.






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






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






26. 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?






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






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






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






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






32. 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






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






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






35. A database term - which means that the database will not permit a program (or user) to deleted rows from a table if there are records in other tables whose foreign keys reference the row to be deleted.






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






37. A quantitative risk analysis is __________________ because: It is difficult to get accurate figures on the frequency of specific threats. It is difficult to determine the probability that a threat will be realized. It is relatively easy to determine






38. 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






39. 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






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






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






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






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






44. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider






45. The purpose of an auditor doing interviews - To observe personnel to better understand their discipline - as well as ______________.






46. 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.






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






48. ____________________ 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






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






50. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.