ISACA Study Guide 2026
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📋 ISACA Exam Format at a Glance
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✍️ Sample ISACA Questions & Answers
1. An IS auditor reviewing IT governance notes that IT investments are approved project-by-project with no portfolio view. The PRIMARY risk is:
Without a portfolio view, investments can overlap, conflict, or miss opportunities for synergy, resulting in suboptimal resource use.
2. What is a key component of IT management?
A key component of IT management is effectively managing IT resources—including people, technology, and budget—to deliver tangible value to the organization. This involves optimizing operations, ensuring reliable service delivery, and supporting business processes to achieve strategic objectives efficiently and effectively.
3. An organization is evaluating its change management process. Which finding indicates an ineffective process?
Emergency changes that consistently bypass post-implementation review create unreviewed risk and suggest the emergency process is being misused to avoid normal controls.
4. Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of security awareness training?
Security awareness training aims to reduce risk by educating users to recognize threats like phishing and practice safe security behaviors.
5. Which of the following is an example of a compensating control when segregation of duties cannot be fully implemented?
Enhanced logging and supervisory review acts as a compensating control by increasing the likelihood that unauthorized activity will be detected.
6. When evaluating an organization's IT operations, an IS auditor should verify that operator procedures are:
Documented, approved, and periodically reviewed procedures ensure consistency, accountability, and alignment with current operational and security requirements.
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