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CISA—Certified Information Systems Auditor - Part 224

Mary Smith

Sat, 18 Apr 2026

CISA—Certified Information Systems Auditor - Part 224

1. Failure in which of the following testing stages would have the GREATEST impact on the implementation of new application software?

A) System testing
B) Acceptance testing
C) Integration testing
D) Unit testing



2. An organization has an integrated development environment (IDE) on which the program libraries reside on the server, but modification/development and testing are done from PC workstations.Which of the following would be a strength of an IDE?

A) Controls the proliferation of multiple versions of programs
B) Expands the programming resources and aids available
C) Increases program and processing integrity
D) Prevents valid changes from being overwritten by other changes



3. Which of the following is the most important element in the design of a data warehouse?

A) Quality of the metadata
B) Speed of the transactions
C) Volatility of the data
D) Vulnerability of the system



4. Ideally, stress testing should be carried out in a:

A) test environment using test data.
B) production environment using live workloads.
C) test environment using live workloads.
D) production environment using test data.



5. Which of the following is an object-oriented technology characteristic that permits an enhanced degree of security over data?

A) inheritance
B) Dynamic warehousing
C) Encapsulation
D) Polymorphism



1. Right Answer: B
Explanation: Acceptance testing is the final stage before the software is installed and is available for use. The greatest impact would occur if the software fails at the acceptance testing level, as this could result in delays and cost overruns. System testing is undertaken by the developer team to determine if the software meets user requirements per specifications. Integration testing examines the units/modules as one integrated system and unit testing examines the individual units or components of the software. System, integration and unit testing are all performed by the developers at various stages of development; the impact of failure is comparatively less for each than failure at the acceptance testing stage.

2. Right Answer: B
Explanation: A strength of an IDE is that it expands the programming resources and aids available. The other choices are IDE weaknesses.

3. Right Answer: A
Explanation: Quality of the metadata is the most important element in the design of a data warehouse. A data warehouse is a copy of transaction data specifically structured for query and analysis. Metadata aim to provide a table of contents to the information stored in the data warehouse. Companies that have built warehouses believe that metadata are the most important component of the warehouse.

4. Right Answer: C
Explanation: Stress testing is carried out to ensure a system can cope with production workloads. A test environment should always be used to avoid damaging the production environment. Hence, testing should never take place in a production environment (choices Band D), and if only test data is used, there is no certainty that the system was stress tested adequately.

5. Right Answer: C
Explanation: Encapsulation is a property of objects, and it prevents accessing either properties or methods that have not been previously defined as public. This means that any implementation of the behavior of an object is not accessible. An object defines a communication interface with the exterior and only that which belongs to that interface can be accessed.

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