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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. 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.






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






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






4. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. 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






12. (1.) Access Control (2.) Change Management (3.) Security Controls (4.) Incident Management (5.) SDLC (6.) Source code and versioning controls (7.) Monitoring and logging (8.) Event Management






13. Used to schedule and sequence activities in a waterfall-type representation. Planned activities are shown flowing downward to completion. More simplistic than a PERT Diagram.






14. 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.






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






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






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






18. (1.) Feasibility (2.) Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation






19. (1.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication






20. 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






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






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






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






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






25. 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.






26. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






27. 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






28. Any event which is not part of the standard operation of service and which causes or may cause an interruption to or reduction in quality of that service. Includes THREE incident types: (1.) Service Outage (2.) Service Slowdown (3.) Software Bug






29. 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.






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






31. During the development phase - Developers should only be performing Unit Testing - to verify that the individual sections of code they have written are performing properly.






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






33. 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)






34. 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?






35. 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.






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






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






38. Deliver messages from one station to another on the same network or on different networks. Messaging at this layer is not guaranteed.






39. 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






40. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration






41. 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






42. Handle application processing






43. 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






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






45. An auditor is examining a key management process and has found that the IT department is not following its split-custody procedure. As a result - Someone may be in possession of the _________________.






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






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






48. 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






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






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







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