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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. 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






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






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






4. An audit that is performed in support of an anticipated or active legal proceeding.






5. 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.






6. An organization experiences frequent malware infections on end-user workstations that are received through email - despite the tact that workstations have anti-virus software. To reducing malware - Implementing ________________ will provide an effect






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






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






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






10. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






12. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components






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






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






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






16. To measure organizational performance and effectiveness against strategic goals.






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






18. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.






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






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






21. The process of recording the configuration of IT systems. Each configuration setting is known in ITSM parlance as a Configuration Item.






22. 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






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






24. 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






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






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






27. Used to control connections that are established between systems (1.) TCP (2.) IPC (3.) SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) (4.) RPC (Remote Procedure Call) (5.) NetBIOS






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






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






30. An external IS auditor has discovered a _______________________ - The external auditor can only document the finding in the audit report. An external auditor is not in a position to implement controls.






31. An auditor has detected potential fraud while testing a control objective - He should ___________________. Because Audit committee members are generally not involved in business operations - they will be sufficiently remove from the matter - and they






32. IS auditors can _____________________ through the following means: (1.) training courses (2.) webinars (3.) ISACA chapter training events (4.) Industry conferences






33. 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.)






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






35. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






36. ____________________ 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






37. (1.) General (2.) Application






38. Focuses on: post-event recovery and restoration of services






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






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






41. 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.






42. 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.






43. 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.


44. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.






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






46. 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.






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






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






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






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