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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.






2. 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






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






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






5. The portion of IT management that tracks the financial value of IT services that support organizational objectives. It includes 4 activities: (1.) Budgeting (2.) Capital Investment (3.) Expense Management (4.) Project accounting and project ROI (Ret






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






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






8. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






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






10. Handle application processing






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






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






13. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Governance and control framework (3.) Control Objectives (4.) Management Guidelines (5.) Implementation Guide (6.) IT Assurance Guide






14. Used to schedule and sequence activities in a waterfall-type representation. Planned activities are shown flowing downward to completion. More simplistic than a PERT Diagram.






15. 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.






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






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






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






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






20. 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.






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






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






23. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.






24. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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






26. (1.) LAN protocols (2.) 80 (2.) 11 MAC/LLC (WiFi) (3.) Common Carrier packet networks (4.) ARP (5.) PPP and SLIP (6.) Tunneling - PPTP - L2TP






27. The annual expected loss to an asset. It is calculated as the single loss expectancy (SLE) X the annualized rate of occurrence (ARO.)






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






29. 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






30. 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






31. A database administrator has been asked to configure a database management system so that it records all changes made by users - The DBA should implement ___________. This will cause the database to record every change that is made to it.






32. External auditors are needed under these conditions: (1.) When the organization ________________________. (2.) Some regulations and standards require external - independent auditors






33. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices






34. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration






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






36. 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.






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






38. 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.






39. 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






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






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






42. 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






43. 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






44. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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






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






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






48. 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






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






50. A sampling technique where a population is divided into classes or strata - based upon the value of one of the attributes. Samples are then selected from each class.