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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






2. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.






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






4. 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.






5. 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.






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






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






8. 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






9. (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






10. 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






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






12. An audit of an accounting system - accounting department processes - and procedures to determine if business controls are sufficient to ensure the integrity of financial statements.






13. 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.






14. The IS auditor should conduct a risk assessment first to determine which areas have highest risk. She should devote more testing resources to those high-risk areas.






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






16. 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.






17. 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






18. 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.






19. During an audit - the auditor should obtain 6 types of documents - (1.) Org charts (2.) ___________ (3.) third-party contracts (4.) policies and procedures (5.) standards (6.) system documentation






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






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






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






23. 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






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






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






26. 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






27. 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.






28. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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






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






31. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.






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






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






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






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






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






37. 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






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






39. 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






40. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






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






43. Collections of Controls that work together to achieve an entire range of an organization's objectives.






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






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






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






47. 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.






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






49. 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.






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







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