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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. 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






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






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






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






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






6. 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






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






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






9. 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






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






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






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






13. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices






14. A sampling technique where items are chosen at random; each item has a statistically equal probability of being chosen.






15. In Release Management - _________________ means that each step of the release process undergoes formal review and approval before the next step is allowed to begin.






16. During the development phase - Developers should only be performing Unit Testing - to verify that the individual sections of code they have written are performing properly.






17. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.






18. 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.






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






20. 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






21. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






22. 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






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






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






25. 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.






26. The main hardware component of a computer system - which executes instructions in computer programs.






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






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






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






30. 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.






31. Application controls limit ___________ in three ways: (1.) Point of Entry (Input Controls) (2.) During consumption (process controls) (3.) At the point of expression (Output Controls)






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






33. 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.






34. 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






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






36. A condition often identified as a result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms. Problems can also be identified from a single significant incident for which the impact is significant.






37. A quantitative risk analysis is __________________ because: It is difficult to get accurate figures on the frequency of specific threats. It is difficult to determine the probability that a threat will be realized. It is relatively easy to determine






38. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.






39. 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.






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






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






42. 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






43. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






44. 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.






45. A large number of loosely coupled computers that are used to solve a common task may be in close proximity to each other or scattered over a large geographical area.






46. Information is arranged in frames and transported across the medium. Collision detection. Checksum verification of delivery.






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






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






49. Outsourcing is an opportunity for the organization to focus on core competencies. When an organization oursources a business function - it no longer needs to be concerned about training employees in that function. Outsources does not always reduce co






50. (1.) Access Control (2.) Change Management (3.) Security Controls (4.) Incident Management (5.) SDLC (6.) Source code and versioning controls (7.) Monitoring and logging (8.) Event Management