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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. 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






2. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine the numeric total of a specific attribute from the entire population.






3. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






4. 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






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






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






11. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






13. What three elements allow validation of business practices against acceptable measures of regulatory compliance - performance - and standard operational guidelines.






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






15. 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






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






18. (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






19. 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.






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






21. An auditor is examining a key management process and has found that the IT department is not following its split-custody procedure. As a result - Someone may be in possession of the _________________.






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






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






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






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






26. 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






27. 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






28. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.






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






30. An IS auditor is auditing the change management process for a financial application. The auditor has two primary pieces of evidence: change logs and a written analysis of the change logs performed by a business analyst. The change log is best because






31. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.






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






33. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems






34. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components






35. What activity involves the identification of potential risk and the appropriate response for each threat based on impact assessment using qualitative and/or quantitative measures for an enterprise-wide risk management strategy?






36. 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.






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






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






39. An audit of a third-party organization that provides services to other organizations.






40. 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.






41. 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






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






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






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






45. (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






46. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.






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






48. 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






49. 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.)






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