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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. External auditors are needed under these conditions: (1.) When the organization ________________________. (2.) Some regulations and standards require external - independent auditors






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






3. The purpose of an auditor doing interviews - To observe personnel to better understand their discipline - as well as ______________.






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






5. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






6. (1.) Utility (DNS - SNMP - DHCP (2.) Messaging protocols (SMTP) (3.) Data Transfer protocols (NFS - FTP) (4.) Interactive protocols (Telnet)






7. Gantt: used to display ______________.






8. 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






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






10. (1.) General (2.) Application






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






12. 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.






13. 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






14. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






15. (1.) Developers (2.) Architects (3.) Analysts (4.) Users






16. 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






17. 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






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






19. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






20. 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?






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






22. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






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






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






26. 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.)






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. The party that performs strategic planning - addresses near-term and long-term requirements aligning business objectives - and technology strategies.






34. 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.






35. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.






36. Handle application processing






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






38. 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.






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






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






41. One of a database table's fields - whose value is unique.






42. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider






43. An audit report usually includes the following 10 elements: (1.) Cover letter (2.) Introduction (3.) Summary (4.) Audit description (5.) _______________ (6.) Interviewees (7.) Evidence (8.) Explanation of sampling techniques (9.) Findings (10.) Recom






44. 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.






45. 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.






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






47. 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






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






49. 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.






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