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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






2. (1.) Develop a BC Policy (2.) Conduct BIA (3.) Perform critical analysis (4.) Establish recovery targets (5.) Develop recovery and continuity strategies and plans (6.) Test recovery and continuity plans and procedures Train personnel Maintain strateg






3. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






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 organization has chosen to open a business office in another country where labor costs are lower and has hired workers to perform business functions there. - The organization is ___________ - while they may have opened the office in a foreign coun






6. An auditor has discovered several errors in user account management: many terminated employees' computer accounts are still active. The best course of action - To improve the _________________ to reduce the number of exceptions. For a time - the proc






7. 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






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






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






10. 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.






11. ____________________ 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






12. (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






13. Handle application processing






14. 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






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






16. (1.) LAN protocols (2.) 80 (2.) 11 MAC/LLC (WiFi) (3.) Common Carrier packet networks (4.) ARP (5.) PPP and SLIP (6.) Tunneling - PPTP - L2TP






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






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






19. (1.) Authentication (2.) Authorization (3.) Change Management (4.) Completeness checks (5.) Validation checks (6.) Input controls (7.) Output controls (8.) Problem management (9.) Identification/access controls






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






21. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






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






24. 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.






25. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application






26. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






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






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






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. The means by which management establishes and measures processes by which organizational objectives are achieved






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






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






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






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






36. To ensure that input values are within established ranges - of the correct character types - and free of harmful contents.






37. An audit of operational efficiency.






38. 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






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






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






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






42. 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.






43. 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






44. 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






45. 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






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






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






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






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






50. 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.