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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. (1.) Physical (2.) Technical (4.) Administrative






2. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.






3. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






4. What type of testing is performed to determine if control procedures have proper design and are operating properly?






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






6. 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






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






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






9. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.






10. 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.






11. To measure organizational performance and effectiveness against strategic goals.






12. (1.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication






13. The means by which management establishes and measures processes by which organizational objectives are achieved






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






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






16. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review






17. (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






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






19. Handle application processing






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






21. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






22. Used to estimate the effort required to develop a software program.






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






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






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 audit of an accounting system - accounting department processes - and procedures to determine if business controls are sufficient to ensure the integrity of financial statements.






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






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






29. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.






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






31. (1.) Authentication (2.) Authorization (3.) Change Management (4.) Completeness checks (5.) Validation checks (6.) Input controls (7.) Output controls (8.) Problem management (9.) Identification/access controls






32. 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






33. 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.






34. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.






35. 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






36. 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






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






38. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






39. Framework for auditing and measuring IT Service Management Processes.






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






42. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






44. 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






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






46. 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.






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






48. 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






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






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