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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






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






3. An auditor has detected potential fraud while testing a control objective - He should ___________________. Because Audit committee members are generally not involved in business operations - they will be sufficiently remove from the matter - and they






4. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.






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






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






7. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment






8. 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






9. An IS auditor is auditing the change management process for a financial application. The auditor has two primary pieces of evidence: change logs and a written analysis of the change logs performed by a business analyst. The change log is best because






10. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them






11. 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.






12. 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






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






14. Framework for auditing and measuring IT Service Management Processes.






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






16. (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






17. 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.






18. What type of testing is performed to determine if control procedures have proper design and are operating properly?






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






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






21. Gantt: used to display ______________.






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






23. 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.






24. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.






25. 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






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






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






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






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






30. An organization that has experienced a sudden increase in its long-distance charges has asked an auditor to investigate. The auditor is most likely to suspect that intruders have discovered a ______________________and is committing toll fraud.

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






32. (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






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






34. 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






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






36. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






37. 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






38. What three elements allow validation of business practices against acceptable measures of regulatory compliance - performance - and standard operational guidelines.






39. 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 _________________.






40. (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






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






42. 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.






43. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time






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






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






46. Support the functioning of the application controls






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. Application controls limit ___________ in three ways: (1.) Point of Entry (Input Controls) (2.) During consumption (process controls) (3.) At the point of expression (Output Controls)






49. The memory locations in the CPU where arithmetic values are stored.






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







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