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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. A representation of how closely a sample represents an entire population.






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






3. 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 ________.






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






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






6. (1.) IP (2.) ICMP (3.) RRC (Radio Resource Control) (4.) AppleTalk






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






8. Used to control connections that are established between systems (1.) TCP (2.) IPC (3.) SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) (4.) RPC (Remote Procedure Call) (5.) NetBIOS






9. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment






10. The risk that a material error exists that will not be prevented or detected by the organization's control framework - The possibility that a process or procedure will be unable to prevent or deter serious errors and wrongdoing.






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






12. 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






13. A programmer is updating an application that saves passwords in plaintext. In this case - Passwords should be stored in a _____. This makes it impossible for any person to retrieve a password - which could lead to account compromise.






14. 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.






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






16. 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






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






18. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time






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






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






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






22. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.






23. 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






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






25. Define 10 elements of an Audit - (1.) Subject of audit (2.) Audit Objective (3.) Type of audit (4.) Audit scope (5.) Pre-audit planning (6.) Audit procedures (7.) Communication plan (8.) Report Preparation (9.) Wrap-up (10.) Post-audit follow-up






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






27. (1.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication






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






29. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act






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






31. 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






32. 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






33. To communication security policies - procedures - and other security-related information to an organization's employees.






34. (1.) Feasibility (2.) Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation






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






36. A sampling technique where at least one exception is sought in a population






37. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






39. An organization that has experienced a sudden increase in its long-distance charges has asked an auditor to investigate. The auditor is most likely to suspect that intruders have discovered a ______________________and is committing toll fraud.

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40. 0. No process at all (1.) Process are ad hoc and disorganized (2.) Consistent processes (3.) Documented processes (4.) Measured and managed processes (5.) Processes are continuously improved






41. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)






42. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them






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






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






45. 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






46. 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.






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






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






49. (1.) Develop a BC Policy (2.) Conduct BIA (3.) Perform critical analysis (4.) Establish recovery targets (5.) Develop recovery and continuity strategies and plans (6.) Test recovery and continuity plans and procedures Train personnel Maintain strateg






50. An estimate that expresses the percent of errors or exceptions that may exist in an entire population