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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. 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.






2. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review






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






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






5. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






6. Consists of 11 distinct activities: (1.) Service Desk (2.) Incident Management (3.) Problem Management (4.) Change Management (5.) Configuration Management (6.) Release Management (7.) Service-level Management (8.) Financial Management (9.) Capacity






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






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






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






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






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






12. Should include 4 steps: (1.) Emergency Approval (2.) Implementation (3.) Verification (4.) Review






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






14. A Fire sprinkler system has water in its pipes - and sprinkler heads emit water only if the ambient temperature reaches 220 deg. F. This is a ________________. The system is charged with water and will discharge water out of any sprinkler head whose






15. (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






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






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






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






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






20. During an audit - the auditor should obtain 6 types of documents - (1.) Org charts (2.) ___________ (3.) third-party contracts (4.) policies and procedures (5.) standards (6.) system documentation






21. 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)






22. A database term - which means that the database will not permit a program (or user) to deleted rows from a table if there are records in other tables whose foreign keys reference the row to be deleted.






23. A sampling technique where at least one exception is sought in a population






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






25. A field in a record in one table that can reference a primary key in another table that can reference a primary key in another table.






26. An IS auditor needs to perform an audit of a financial system and needs to trace individual transactions through the system. What type of testing should the auditor perform?






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






28. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. An IS auditor is examining the IT standards document for an organization that was last reviewed two years earlier. The best course of action for the IS auditor is: Report that the ____________________________. Two years is far too long between revie






37. 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






38. 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.






39. Handle application processing






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






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






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






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






44. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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