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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






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






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






4. (1.) General (2.) Application






5. The party that performs strategic planning - addresses near-term and long-term requirements aligning business objectives - and technology strategies.






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






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






9. A facility that is used to store and manage access to an organization's application source and object code. It consists of 5 parts: (1.) Access and authorization controls (2.) Program checkout (3.) Program Check-in (4.) Version Control (5.) Code Ana






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






11. Who is responsible for imposing an IT governance model encompassing IT strategy - information security - and formal enterprise architectural mandates?






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






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






14. The result of strategic planning - process development - and systems development - which all contribute towards a launch of business operations to reach a set of business objectives.






15. 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?






16. 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






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






18. 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.






19. Framework for auditing and measuring IT Service Management Processes.






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






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






22. Handle application processing






23. A field in a record in one table that can reference a primary key in another table that can reference a primary key in another table.






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






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






26. 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






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






28. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.






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






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






31. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)






32. 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.






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






34. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices






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






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






37. 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 _________________.






38. 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






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






40. A critical application is backed up once per day. The recovery point objective (RPO) for an application that is backed up once per day cannot be ________.






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






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






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






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






45. (1.) Utility (DNS - SNMP - DHCP (2.) Messaging protocols (SMTP) (3.) Data Transfer protocols (NFS - FTP) (4.) Interactive protocols (Telnet)






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






47. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery






48. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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






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