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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.






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






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






4. 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.






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






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






8. 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.






9. 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






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. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.






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






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






14. 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.






15. 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.






16. 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.






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






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






19. (1.) General (2.) Application






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






21. An audit of a third-party organization that provides services to other organizations.






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






23. An auditor has discovered that several administrators in an application share an administrative account. The auditor should recommend that - Several __________________ should be used. This will enforce accountability for each administrator's actions.






24. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)






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






26. 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.






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






28. 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.






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






30. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






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






32. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






33. 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.






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






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






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






37. 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.






38. Gantt: used to display ______________.






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






40. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems






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






42. 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






43. A technique that is used to identify the most critical path in a project to understand which tasks are most likely to affect the project schedule.






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP