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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. 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






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






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






5. 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






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






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






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






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 sampling technique where items are chosen at random; each item has a statistically equal probability of being chosen.






11. 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.






12. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.






13. 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.






14. A tightly coupled collection of computers that are used to solve a common task. One or more actively perform tasks - while zero or more may be in a standby state.






15. A technique that is used to identify the most critical path in a project to understand which tasks are most likely to affect the project schedule.






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






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






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






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






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






21. 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






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






23. The 5 types of risks that are related to audits include: (1.) Control Risk (2.) Detection Risk (3.) Inherent risk (4.) _____________ (5.) Sampling risk






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






25. A database administrator has been asked to configure a database management system so that it records all changes made by users - The DBA should implement ___________. This will cause the database to record every change that is made to it.






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






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






28. An audit of operational efficiency.






29. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.






30. 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






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






32. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






33. 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






34. Gantt: used to display ______________.






35. A Fire sprinkler system has water in its pipes - and sprinkler heads emit water only if the ambient temperature reaches 220 deg. F. This is a ________________. The system is charged with water and will discharge water out of any sprinkler head whose






36. 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






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






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






39. During the development phase - Developers should only be performing Unit Testing - to verify that the individual sections of code they have written are performing properly.






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






41. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.






42. (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






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






44. 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






45. (1.) Access controls (2.) Encryption (3.) Audit logging






46. 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






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






48. 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.






49. 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.






50. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.