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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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






3. An external IS auditor has discovered a _______________________ - The external auditor can only document the finding in the audit report. An external auditor is not in a position to implement controls.






4. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.






5. 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






6. 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






7. 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






8. 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






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






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






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






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






13. 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






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






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






16. Information is arranged in frames and transported across the medium. Collision detection. Checksum verification of delivery.






17. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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






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






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






21. 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.






22. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems






23. 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.






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






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






27. 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.






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






29. 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.






30. 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






31. (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






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






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






34. An audit of an accounting system - accounting department processes - and procedures to determine if business controls are sufficient to ensure the integrity of financial statements.






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






36. 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






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






38. 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






39. 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






40. 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






41. 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






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






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






44. (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






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






46. 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.






47. 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






48. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






49. A sampling technique where a population is divided into classes or strata - based upon the value of one of the attributes. Samples are then selected from each class.






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