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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. 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 ________.






2. A collection of two or more servers that is designed to appear as a single server.






3. (1.) Reliable delivery (2.) Connection oriented (persistent connection) (3.) Order of Delivery (4.) Flow Control (transfer rate is throttled) (5.) Port Number






4. The primary source for test plans in a software development project is: ________________ that are developed for a project should be the primary source for detailed tests.






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






6. 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.






7. A software developer has informed the project manager that a portion of the application development is going to take five additional days to complete. The project manager make a __________________ to document the reason for the change.






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






9. An audit of a third-party organization that provides services to other organizations.






10. Used to control connections that are established between systems (1.) TCP (2.) IPC (3.) SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) (4.) RPC (Remote Procedure Call) (5.) NetBIOS






11. 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






12. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






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






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






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






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






19. Support the functioning of the application controls






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. An audit of operational efficiency.






28. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.






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






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






31. 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.






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






33. An organization has discovered that some of its employees have criminal records. The best course of action for the organization to take - The organization should have ___________________ on all of its existing employees and also begin instituting bac






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. 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






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






37. 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.






38. 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






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






40. 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.






41. The portion of IT management that tracks the financial value of IT services that support organizational objectives. It includes 4 activities: (1.) Budgeting (2.) Capital Investment (3.) Expense Management (4.) Project accounting and project ROI (Ret






42. 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






43. 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)






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






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






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






47. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.






48. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices






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






50. 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.