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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. (1.) Physical (2.) Technical (4.) Administrative






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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?






10. 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.






11. An auditor is examining a key management process and has found that the IT department is not following its split-custody procedure. As a result - Someone may be in possession of the _________________.






12. An auditor has reviewed access privileges of some employees and has discovered that employees with longer terms of service have excessive privileges. This means User privileges are not being removed from their old position when they transfer to a new






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






14. (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






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






16. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery






17. 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.






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






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






20. 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






21. (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






22. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. 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






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






32. A programmer is updating an application that saves passwords in plaintext. In this case - Passwords should be stored in a _____. This makes it impossible for any person to retrieve a password - which could lead to account compromise.






33. 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






34. 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.






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






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






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






38. 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






39. (1.) General (2.) Application






40. 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






41. The risk that a material error exists that will not be prevented or detected by the organization's control framework - The possibility that a process or procedure will be unable to prevent or deter serious errors and wrongdoing.






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






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






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






45. An audit of operational efficiency.






46. 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.






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






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






49. A large number of loosely coupled computers that are used to solve a common task may be in close proximity to each other or scattered over a large geographical area.






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