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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. 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






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






3. The process to ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of all changes.






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






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






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






7. 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






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






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






10. 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.






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






12. 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






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






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






15. 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






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






17. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.






18. (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






19. 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.






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






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






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






23. 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.






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






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






26. 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)






27. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components






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






29. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.






30. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






32. Critical Path Methodology helps a project manager determine which activities are on a project's critical list - ________________________.






33. 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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34. 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






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






36. 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






37. The maximum period of downtime for a process or application






38. 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






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






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






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






42. 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






43. Gantt: used to display ______________.






44. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act






45. A CMM helps an organization to _______________ - which is an important first step to any large-scale process improvement effort.






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






47. An audit of an IS department's operations and systems.






48. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning






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






50. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.







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