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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. Define 10 elements of an Audit - (1.) Subject of audit (2.) Audit Objective (3.) Type of audit (4.) Audit scope (5.) Pre-audit planning (6.) Audit procedures (7.) Communication plan (8.) Report Preparation (9.) Wrap-up (10.) Post-audit follow-up






2. 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.






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






4. 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






5. 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






6. (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






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






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






9. (1.) General (2.) Application






10. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.






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






12. 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.






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






14. 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.






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






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






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






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






19. 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.






20. 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.






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






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






23. 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






24. 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.






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






26. (1.) Feasibility Study (2.) Definition of Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation phase






27. 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.






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






29. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.






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






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






32. Consists of 11 distinct activities: (1.) Service Desk (2.) Incident Management (3.) Problem Management (4.) Change Management (5.) Configuration Management (6.) Release Management (7.) Service-level Management (8.) Financial Management (9.) Capacity






33. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






34. 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?






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






36. 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






37. The annual expected loss to an asset. It is calculated as the single loss expectancy (SLE) X the annualized rate of occurrence (ARO.)






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






39. 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






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






41. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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






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






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






45. 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






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






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






48. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.






49. 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






50. 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.