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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.






3. 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.






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






5. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.






6. 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






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






8. 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






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






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






11. 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.






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






13. 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






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






15. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified






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






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






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






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






20. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.






21. During the development phase - Developers should only be performing Unit Testing - to verify that the individual sections of code they have written are performing properly.






22. 0. No process at all (1.) Process are ad hoc and disorganized (2.) Consistent processes (3.) Documented processes (4.) Measured and managed processes (5.) Processes are continuously improved






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






24. 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.






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






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






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






28. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance






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






30. 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






31. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






32. 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






33. 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?






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






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






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






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






39. 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.






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






41. Handle application processing






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






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






44. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.






45. 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.






46. An IS auditor needs to perform an audit of a financial system and needs to trace individual transactions through the system. What type of testing should the auditor perform?






47. 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.






48. 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.






49. 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.






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