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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The IS auditor should conduct a risk assessment first to determine which areas have highest risk. She should devote more testing resources to those high-risk areas.






2. An audit that is performed in support of an anticipated or active legal proceeding.






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






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






5. 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.






6. 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






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






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






9. 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






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






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






12. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records






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






14. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review






15. 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.






16. 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.






17. An audit of an IS department's operations and systems.






18. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






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






21. 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






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






23. What type of testing is performed to determine if control procedures have proper design and are operating properly?






24. 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.






25. (1.) Feasibility Study (2.) Definition of Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation phase






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






27. A critical application is backed up once per day. The recovery point objective (RPO) for an application that is backed up once per day cannot be ________.






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






29. Used for several types of system changes: (1.) Incidents and problem resolution (bug fixes.) (2.) Enhancements (new functionality.) (3.) Subsystem patches and changes (require testing similar to when changes are made to the application itself.)






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. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






38. A computer uses RAM for several purposes: (1.) Operating System - to store info regarding running processes (2.) ____________ - that are used to temporarily store information retrieved from hard disks (3.) Storage of program code (4.) Storage of prog






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






40. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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






47. A sampling technique used to permit sampling to stop at the earliest possible time. This technique is used when the auditor feels that there is a low risk or low rate of exceptions in the population.






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






49. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems






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