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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. (1.) MPLS (2.) SONET (3.) T-Carrier (4.) Frame Relay (5.) ISDN (6.) X.25






2. 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.






3. (1.) Feasibility Study (2.) Definition of Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation phase






4. An IS auditor is examining the IT standards document for an organization that was last reviewed two years earlier. The best course of action for the IS auditor is: Report that the ____________________________. Two years is far too long between revie






5. ____________________ of the hot site is most important consideration for site selection. IF they are too close together then a single event may involve both locations






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






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






8. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality






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






10. 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






11. 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






12. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance






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






14. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.






15. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.






16. A quantitative risk analysis is __________________ because: It is difficult to get accurate figures on the frequency of specific threats. It is difficult to determine the probability that a threat will be realized. It is relatively easy to determine






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






18. Delivery of packets from one station to another - on the same network or on different networks.






19. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.






20. 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.






21. Information is arranged in frames and transported across the medium. Collision detection. Checksum verification of delivery.






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






23. The main hardware component of a computer system - which executes instructions in computer programs.






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






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






26. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






28. Support the functioning of the application controls






29. A large number of loosely coupled computers that are used to solve a common task may be in close proximity to each other or scattered over a large geographical area.






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






31. 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.






32. An audit that is performed in support of an anticipated or active legal proceeding.






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






34. 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






35. (1.) General (2.) Application






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






37. Outsourcing is an opportunity for the organization to focus on core competencies. When an organization oursources a business function - it no longer needs to be concerned about training employees in that function. Outsources does not always reduce co






38. An auditor has discovered several errors in user account management: many terminated employees' computer accounts are still active. The best course of action - To improve the _________________ to reduce the number of exceptions. For a time - the proc






39. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration






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






41. Used to estimate the effort required to develop a software program.






42. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






43. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.






44. (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






45. 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






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






47. A database term - which means that the database will not permit a program (or user) to deleted rows from a table if there are records in other tables whose foreign keys reference the row to be deleted.






48. 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.






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






50. 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







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