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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






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






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






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






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






6. 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.






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






8. One of a database table's fields - whose value is unique.






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






10. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.






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






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






13. 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






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






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






16. The party that performs strategic planning - addresses near-term and long-term requirements aligning business objectives - and technology strategies.






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






18. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.






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






20. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






22. 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.






23. (1.) Feasibility Study (2.) Definition of Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation phase






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






25. (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






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






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






28. 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






29. Used to measure the relative maturity of an organization and its processes.






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






31. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine how many samples possess a specific characteristic.






32. 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.






33. IS auditors can _____________________ through the following means: (1.) training courses (2.) webinars (3.) ISACA chapter training events (4.) Industry conferences






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






35. (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






36. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






38. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.






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






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






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






42. 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?






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






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






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






46. What type of testing is performed to verify the accuracy and integrity of transactions as they flow through a system?






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






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






49. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.






50. A programmer is updating an application that saves passwords in plaintext. In this case - Passwords should be stored in a _____. This makes it impossible for any person to retrieve a password - which could lead to account compromise.







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