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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. 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






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






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






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






5. To determine effectiveness of a disaster recovery program - an IT auditor should examine _____________.






6. (1.) Feasibility (2.) Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation






7. 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






8. 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.






9. 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.






10. An organization has discovered that some of its employees have criminal records. The best course of action for the organization to take - The organization should have ___________________ on all of its existing employees and also begin instituting bac






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






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






13. Focuses on: maintaining service availability with the least disruption to standard operating parameters during an event






14. 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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15. 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.






16. An IS auditor is examining the IT standards document for an organization that was last reviewed two years earlier. The best course of action for the IS auditor is: Report that the ____________________________. Two years is far too long between revie






17. The maximum period of downtime for a process or application






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






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






20. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






21. 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.






22. 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.






23. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






24. 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






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






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






27. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






28. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






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






30. 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






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






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






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






34. 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.






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






36. 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.)






37. 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.






38. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time






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






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






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






42. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider






43. Subjective sampling is used when the auditor wants to _________________________.






44. 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.






45. A programmer is updating an application that saves passwords in plaintext. In this case - Passwords should be stored in a _____. This makes it impossible for any person to retrieve a password - which could lead to account compromise.






46. 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






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






48. 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.






49. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.






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






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