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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






2. 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






3. An auditor has reviewed access privileges of some employees and has discovered that employees with longer terms of service have excessive privileges. This means User privileges are not being removed from their old position when they transfer to a new






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






5. 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.






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






7. (1.) General (2.) Application






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






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






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






11. 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.






12. 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.)






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






14. (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






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






16. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.






17. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.






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






19. ____________________ 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






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






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






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






23. Support the functioning of the application controls






24. A condition that is the result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms e.g. A web application is displaying information incorrectly and many users have contacted the IT service desk.






25. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.






26. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery






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






28. The risk that a material error exists that will not be prevented or detected by the organization's control framework - The possibility that a process or procedure will be unable to prevent or deter serious errors and wrongdoing.






29. The IS auditor should conduct a risk assessment first to determine which areas have highest risk. She should devote more testing resources to those high-risk areas.






30. 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






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






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






33. An active - instance of a server operating system running on a machine that is designed to house two or more such virtual servers.






34. A database term - which means that the database will not permit a program (or user) to deleted rows from a table if there are records in other tables whose foreign keys reference the row to be deleted.






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






36. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)






37. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






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






44. 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.






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






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






47. 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






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






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






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







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