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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






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






3. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






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






5. (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






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






7. n audit strategy and plans that include: (1.) Scope (2.) Objectives (3.) Resources (4.) Procedures used to evaluation controls and processes






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.






15. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.






16. Used to estimate the effort required to develop a software program.






17. 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.






18. 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?






19. 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






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






21. 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.






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






23. (1.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas






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






25. Guide program execution through organization of resources and development of clear project objectives.






26. 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?






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






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






29. 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.






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






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






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






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






34. An IS auditor is examining the IT standards document for an organization that was last reviewed two years earlier. The best course of action for the IS auditor is: Report that the ____________________________. Two years is far too long between revie






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






36. 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.






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






38. A condition often identified as a result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms. Problems can also be identified from a single significant incident for which the impact is significant.






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






40. 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






41. (1.) MPLS (2.) SONET (3.) T-Carrier (4.) Frame Relay (5.) ISDN (6.) X.25






42. 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






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






44. 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.






45. 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.)






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






47. An audit of a third-party organization that provides services to other organizations.






48. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






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