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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. The memory locations in the CPU where arithmetic values are stored.






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






3. The purpose of an auditor doing interviews - To observe personnel to better understand their discipline - as well as ______________.






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






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






6. An auditor has detected potential fraud while testing a control objective - He should ___________________. Because Audit committee members are generally not involved in business operations - they will be sufficiently remove from the matter - and they






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






8. 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






9. An organization wants to reduce the number of user IDs and passwords that its employees need to remember. The best available solution to this - _______________. This provides a single authentication service (such as LDAP or AD) that many applications






10. 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.






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






12. An audit report usually includes the following 10 elements: (1.) Cover letter (2.) Introduction (3.) Summary (4.) Audit description (5.) _______________ (6.) Interviewees (7.) Evidence (8.) Explanation of sampling techniques (9.) Findings (10.) Recom






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






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






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






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






17. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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






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






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






21. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records






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






23. 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






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






25. 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.)






26. A collection of two or more servers that is designed to appear as a single server.






27. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.






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






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






30. Consists of 11 distinct activities: (1.) Service Desk (2.) Incident Management (3.) Problem Management (4.) Change Management (5.) Configuration Management (6.) Release Management (7.) Service-level Management (8.) Financial Management (9.) Capacity






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






32. Focuses on: maintaining service availability with the least disruption to standard operating parameters during an event






33. The annual expected loss to an asset. It is calculated as the single loss expectancy (SLE) X the annualized rate of occurrence (ARO.)






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






35. An external IS auditor has discovered a _______________________ - The external auditor can only document the finding in the audit report. An external auditor is not in a position to implement controls.






36. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






37. Handle application processing






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






39. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






40. Framework for auditing and measuring IT Service Management Processes.






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






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






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






44. An audit of an accounting system - accounting department processes - and procedures to determine if business controls are sufficient to ensure the integrity of financial statements.






45. 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 ________.






46. 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






47. 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.






48. 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.






49. A facility that is used to store and manage access to an organization's application source and object code. It consists of 5 parts: (1.) Access and authorization controls (2.) Program checkout (3.) Program Check-in (4.) Version Control (5.) Code Ana






50. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.







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