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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






2. 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






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






4. 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.






5. 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 _________________.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. 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.






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






15. A critical application is backed up once per day. The recovery point objective (RPO) for an application that is backed up once per day cannot be ________.






16. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality






17. 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.






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






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






20. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






21. 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.






22. An audit of an IS department's operations and systems.






23. Should include 4 steps: (1.) Emergency Approval (2.) Implementation (3.) Verification (4.) Review






24. 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






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






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






27. 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






28. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.






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






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






31. 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.






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. 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






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






36. 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.






37. A dynamically scalable and usually virtualized computing environment that is provided as a service. Clout computing services may be rented or leased so that an organization can have a scalable application without the need for supporting hardware.






38. (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






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






40. 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






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






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






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






44. Gantt: used to display ______________.






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






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






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






48. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified






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






50. Collections of Controls that work together to achieve an entire range of an organization's objectives.







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