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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 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.






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






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






4. The 5 types of risks that are related to audits include: (1.) Control Risk (2.) Detection Risk (3.) Inherent risk (4.) _____________ (5.) Sampling risk






5. 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 ________.






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






7. A software developer has informed the project manager that a portion of the application development is going to take five additional days to complete. The project manager make a __________________ to document the reason for the change.






8. What type of testing is performed to verify the accuracy and integrity of transactions as they flow through a system?






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






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






11. 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.






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






13. (1.) Access Control (2.) Change Management (3.) Security Controls (4.) Incident Management (5.) SDLC (6.) Source code and versioning controls (7.) Monitoring and logging (8.) Event Management






14. Deliver messages from one station to another on the same network or on different networks. Messaging at this layer is not guaranteed.






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






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






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






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






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






20. An active - instance of a server operating system running on a machine that is designed to house two or more such virtual servers.






21. The highest number of errors that can exist without a result being materially misstated.






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






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






24. 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.






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






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






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






28. 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.






29. During an audit - the auditor should obtain 6 types of documents - (1.) Org charts (2.) ___________ (3.) third-party contracts (4.) policies and procedures (5.) standards (6.) system documentation






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






31. 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.






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






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






34. 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






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






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






37. 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






38. 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






39. 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






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






41. A CMM helps an organization to _______________ - which is an important first step to any large-scale process improvement effort.






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






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






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






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






46. A database term - which means that the database will not permit a program (or user) to deleted rows from a table if there are records in other tables whose foreign keys reference the row to be deleted.






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






48. 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






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






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