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






2. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






4. 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






5. 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






6. 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.






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






8. 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?






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






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






11. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.






12. The primary source for test plans in a software development project is: ________________ that are developed for a project should be the primary source for detailed tests.






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






14. 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






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






16. (1.) IP (2.) ICMP (3.) RRC (Radio Resource Control) (4.) AppleTalk






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






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






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






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






21. 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.






22. To review and approve proposed changes to systems and infrastructure. This helps to reduce the risk of unintended events and unplanned downtime.






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






24. 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.






25. 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






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






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






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






29. 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.






30. In Release Management - _________________ means that each step of the release process undergoes formal review and approval before the next step is allowed to begin.






31. (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






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






33. Used to control connections that are established between systems (1.) TCP (2.) IPC (3.) SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) (4.) RPC (Remote Procedure Call) (5.) NetBIOS






34. Gantt: used to display ______________.






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






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






38. An organization that has experienced a sudden increase in its long-distance charges has asked an auditor to investigate. The auditor is most likely to suspect that intruders have discovered a ______________________and is committing toll fraud.

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






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






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






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






43. 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.






44. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Governance and control framework (3.) Control Objectives (4.) Management Guidelines (5.) Implementation Guide (6.) IT Assurance Guide






45. Collections of Controls that work together to achieve an entire range of an organization's objectives.






46. (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






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






48. To determine effectiveness of a disaster recovery program - an IT auditor should examine _____________.






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






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