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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. 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.






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






3. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems






4. 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.






5. (1.) General (2.) Application






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






7. (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






8. 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 _________________.






9. An IS auditor needs to perform an audit of a financial system and needs to trace individual transactions through the system. What type of testing should the auditor perform?






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






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






12. 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.






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






14. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample






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






16. 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.






17. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






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






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






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






21. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration






22. 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.






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






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






25. An IS auditor is examining the IT standards document for an organization that was last reviewed two years earlier. The best course of action for the IS auditor is: Report that the ____________________________. Two years is far too long between revie






26. 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






27. Handle application processing






28. 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.






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






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






31. 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.






32. 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.






33. 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?






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






35. 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.






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






37. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Framework (3.) Reporting to External Parties (4.) Evaluation Tools






38. 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.






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






40. 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






41. Any event which is not part of the standard operation of service and which causes or may cause an interruption to or reduction in quality of that service. Includes THREE incident types: (1.) Service Outage (2.) Service Slowdown (3.) Software Bug






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






43. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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






45. Support the functioning of the application controls






46. A facility that is used to store and manage access to an organization's application source and object code. It consists of 5 parts: (1.) Access and authorization controls (2.) Program checkout (3.) Program Check-in (4.) Version Control (5.) Code Ana






47. 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






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






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






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