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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. An auditor has discovered that several administrators in an application share an administrative account. The auditor should recommend that - Several __________________ should be used. This will enforce accountability for each administrator's actions.






2. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






4. The primary source for test plans in a software development project is: ________________ that are developed for a project should be the primary source for detailed tests.






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






6. (1.) Access Control (2.) Change Management (3.) Security Controls (4.) Incident Management (5.) SDLC (6.) Source code and versioning controls (7.) Monitoring and logging (8.) Event Management






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






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






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






10. 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






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






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






13. 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






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






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






16. Support the functioning of the application controls






17. 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.






18. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample






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






20. The portion of IT management that tracks the financial value of IT services that support organizational objectives. It includes 4 activities: (1.) Budgeting (2.) Capital Investment (3.) Expense Management (4.) Project accounting and project ROI (Ret






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






22. 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?






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






24. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






25. External auditors are needed under these conditions: (1.) When the organization ________________________. (2.) Some regulations and standards require external - independent auditors






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






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






28. 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.






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






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






31. 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.






32. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Governance and control framework (3.) Control Objectives (4.) Management Guidelines (5.) Implementation Guide (6.) IT Assurance Guide






33. 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






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






35. 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.)






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






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






38. 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.






39. (1.) LAN protocols (2.) 80 (2.) 11 MAC/LLC (WiFi) (3.) Common Carrier packet networks (4.) ARP (5.) PPP and SLIP (6.) Tunneling - PPTP - L2TP






40. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.






41. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






42. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine how many samples possess a specific characteristic.






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






44. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.






45. An active - instance of a server operating system running on a machine that is designed to house two or more such virtual servers.






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






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






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






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






50. The highest number of errors that can exist without a result being materially misstated.