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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. 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






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






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






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






6. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






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






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






10. 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






11. 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






12. 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.






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






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






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






16. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






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






19. 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






20. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






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






23. The main hardware component of a computer system - which executes instructions in computer programs.






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






25. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.






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






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






28. 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.






29. Subjective sampling is used when the auditor wants to _________________________.






30. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act






31. A quantitative risk analysis is __________________ because: It is difficult to get accurate figures on the frequency of specific threats. It is difficult to determine the probability that a threat will be realized. It is relatively easy to determine






32. 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.






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






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






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






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






37. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine the numeric total of a specific attribute from the entire population.






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






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






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






41. Used for several types of system changes: (1.) Incidents and problem resolution (bug fixes.) (2.) Enhancements (new functionality.) (3.) Subsystem patches and changes (require testing similar to when changes are made to the application itself.)






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






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






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






45. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance






46. An auditor has discovered that several administrators in an application share an administrative account. The auditor should recommend that - Several __________________ should be used. This will enforce accountability for each administrator's actions.






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






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






49. 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.






50. An IS auditor has discovered a high-risk exception during control testing. The best course of action for the IS auditor to take - The IS auditor should immediately ________________ when any high-risk situation is discovered.






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