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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






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






3. 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






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






5. A database administrator has been asked to configure a database management system so that it records all changes made by users - The DBA should implement ___________. This will cause the database to record every change that is made to it.






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






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






8. Aids in the coordinating of business processes using a sequence of three events -(1.) Business process creation (2.) Implementation (3.) Maintenance 3a. Benchmarking: Facilitates continuous improvement within the BPLC






9. 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






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






11. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - as the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient.






12. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






13. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance






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






15. 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






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






18. A tightly coupled collection of computers that are used to solve a common task. One or more actively perform tasks - while zero or more may be in a standby state.






19. 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.






20. A Fire sprinkler system has water in its pipes - and sprinkler heads emit water only if the ambient temperature reaches 220 deg. F. This is a ________________. The system is charged with water and will discharge water out of any sprinkler head whose






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






22. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






23. 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 _________________.






24. 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.






25. An auditor has discovered that several administrators in an application share an administrative account. The auditor should recommend that - Several __________________ should be used. This will enforce accountability for each administrator's actions.






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






27. Support the functioning of the application controls






28. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.






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






30. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






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






33. 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






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 determine if control procedures have proper design and are operating properly?






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






37. (1.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication






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






39. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration






40. 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.






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






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






43. 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






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






45. 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.)






46. 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






47. ____________________ 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






48. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






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






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







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