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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. 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






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






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






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






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






6. A condition that is the result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms e.g. A web application is displaying information incorrectly and many users have contacted the IT service desk.






7. Handle application processing






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






9. A dynamically scalable and usually virtualized computing environment that is provided as a service. Clout computing services may be rented or leased so that an organization can have a scalable application without the need for supporting hardware.






10. 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






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






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






13. The process to ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of all changes.






14. An IS auditor has discovered a high-risk exception during control testing. The best course of action for the IS auditor to take - The IS auditor should immediately ________________ when any high-risk situation is discovered.






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






16. 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






17. A condition often identified as a result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms. Problems can also be identified from a single significant incident for which the impact is significant.






18. A computer uses RAM for several purposes: (1.) Operating System - to store info regarding running processes (2.) ____________ - that are used to temporarily store information retrieved from hard disks (3.) Storage of program code (4.) Storage of prog






19. 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.






20. (1.) General (2.) Application






21. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.






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






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






24. Used to schedule and sequence activities in a waterfall-type representation. Planned activities are shown flowing downward to completion. More simplistic than a PERT Diagram.






25. Focuses on: post-event recovery and restoration of services






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






27. 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.






28. A sampling technique used to permit sampling to stop at the earliest possible time. This technique is used when the auditor feels that there is a low risk or low rate of exceptions in the population.






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






30. 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






31. 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.






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






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






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






35. Any event which is not part of the standard operation of service and which causes or may cause an interruption to or reduction in quality of that service. Includes THREE incident types: (1.) Service Outage (2.) Service Slowdown (3.) Software Bug






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






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






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






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






40. Deliver messages from one station to another on the same network or on different networks. Messaging at this layer is not guaranteed.






41. (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






42. 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.)






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






44. To measure organizational performance and effectiveness against strategic goals.






45. The maximum period of downtime for a process or application






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






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






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






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 IS auditor needs to perform an audit of a financial system and needs to trace individual transactions through the system. What type of testing should the auditor perform?







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