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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






2. Who is responsible for imposing an IT governance model encompassing IT strategy - information security - and formal enterprise architectural mandates?






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






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






5. 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.






6. 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.






7. (1.) Access controls (2.) Encryption (3.) Audit logging






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






9. ____________________ of the hot site is most important consideration for site selection. IF they are too close together then a single event may involve both locations






10. An estimate that expresses the percent of errors or exceptions that may exist in an entire population






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






12. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






14. An auditor has reviewed access privileges of some employees and has discovered that employees with longer terms of service have excessive privileges. This means User privileges are not being removed from their old position when they transfer to a new






15. 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






16. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.






17. Gantt: used to display ______________.






18. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






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






20. 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.






21. 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.






22. A sampling technique used to permit sampling to stop at the earliest possible time. This technique is used when the auditor feels that there is a low risk or low rate of exceptions in the population.






23. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.






24. (1.) General (2.) Application






25. To measure organizational performance and effectiveness against strategic goals.






26. An audit that is performed in support of an anticipated or active legal proceeding.






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






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






29. 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






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






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






32. 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.






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






34. 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






35. 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?






36. An organization has chosen to open a business office in another country where labor costs are lower and has hired workers to perform business functions there. - The organization is ___________ - while they may have opened the office in a foreign coun






37. To determine effectiveness of a disaster recovery program - an IT auditor should examine _____________.






38. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.






39. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.






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






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






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






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






44. 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






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






46. The means by which management establishes and measures processes by which organizational objectives are achieved






47. To review and approve proposed changes to systems and infrastructure. This helps to reduce the risk of unintended events and unplanned downtime.






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






49. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.






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







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