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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 Fire sprinkler system has water in its pipes - and sprinkler heads emit water only if the ambient temperature reaches 220 deg. F. This is a ________________. The system is charged with water and will discharge water out of any sprinkler head whose






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






3. Outsourcing is an opportunity for the organization to focus on core competencies. When an organization oursources a business function - it no longer needs to be concerned about training employees in that function. Outsources does not always reduce co






4. 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.






5. 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.






6. 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.






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






8. 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.






9. Focuses on: maintaining service availability with the least disruption to standard operating parameters during an event






10. One of a database table's fields - whose value is unique.






11. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine how many samples possess a specific characteristic.






12. Who is responsible for imposing an IT governance model encompassing IT strategy - information security - and formal enterprise architectural mandates?






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






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






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






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






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






19. 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






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






21. A facility that is used to store and manage access to an organization's application source and object code. It consists of 5 parts: (1.) Access and authorization controls (2.) Program checkout (3.) Program Check-in (4.) Version Control (5.) Code Ana






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






23. 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






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






25. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






27. (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






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






29. 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.






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






31. 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.






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






33. ____________________ of the hot site is most important consideration for site selection. IF they are too close together then a single event may involve both locations






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






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






36. An IS auditor is auditing the change management process for a financial application. The auditor has two primary pieces of evidence: change logs and a written analysis of the change logs performed by a business analyst. The change log is best because






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






38. 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?






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






40. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient






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






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






43. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment






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






45. Support the functioning of the application controls






46. 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






47. 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






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






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






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