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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. 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






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






3. 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.






4. Deliver messages from one station to another on the same network or on different networks. Messaging at this layer is not guaranteed.






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






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






7. Used to measure the relative maturity of an organization and its processes.






8. 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.






9. 0. No process at all (1.) Process are ad hoc and disorganized (2.) Consistent processes (3.) Documented processes (4.) Measured and managed processes (5.) Processes are continuously improved






10. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






11. The portion of IT management that tracks the financial value of IT services that support organizational objectives. It includes 4 activities: (1.) Budgeting (2.) Capital Investment (3.) Expense Management (4.) Project accounting and project ROI (Ret






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






13. To review and approve proposed changes to systems and infrastructure. This helps to reduce the risk of unintended events and unplanned downtime.






14. ____________________ of the hot site is most important consideration for site selection. IF they are too close together then a single event may involve both locations






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






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






17. (1.) Reliable delivery (2.) Connection oriented (persistent connection) (3.) Order of Delivery (4.) Flow Control (transfer rate is throttled) (5.) Port Number






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






19. 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 _________________.






20. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.






21. (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






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






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. 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.






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






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






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






28. 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.






29. 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.






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






31. Gantt: used to display ______________.






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






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






34. 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






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






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






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






38. 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.






39. Delivery of packets from one station to another - on the same network or on different networks.






40. 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?






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






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






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






44. An audit of operational efficiency.






45. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






46. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






47. Handle application processing






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






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






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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