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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 audit of operational efficiency.






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






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






4. 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.






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






6. ____________________ 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






7. (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






8. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.






9. (1.) General (2.) Application






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






11. 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.






12. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.






13. 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.






14. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.






15. 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






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






17. 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.






18. 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.






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






20. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality






21. 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






22. 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.






23. (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






24. 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.






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






26. 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






27. Define 10 elements of an Audit - (1.) Subject of audit (2.) Audit Objective (3.) Type of audit (4.) Audit scope (5.) Pre-audit planning (6.) Audit procedures (7.) Communication plan (8.) Report Preparation (9.) Wrap-up (10.) Post-audit follow-up






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






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






30. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.






31. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine the numeric total of a specific attribute from the entire population.






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






34. Gantt: used to display ______________.






35. 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






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






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






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






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






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






41. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.






42. 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.






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






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






45. Support the functioning of the application controls






46. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample






47. Handle application processing






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






49. 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?






50. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components