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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






2. 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






3. ____________________ of the hot site is most important consideration for site selection. IF they are too close together then a single event may involve both locations






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






5. 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.






6. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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






8. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - as the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient.






9. Gantt: used to display ______________.






10. 0. No process at all (1.) Process are ad hoc and disorganized (2.) Consistent processes (3.) Documented processes (4.) Measured and managed processes (5.) Processes are continuously improved






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






12. 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






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






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






16. A facility that is used to store and manage access to an organization's application source and object code. It consists of 5 parts: (1.) Access and authorization controls (2.) Program checkout (3.) Program Check-in (4.) Version Control (5.) Code Ana






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






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






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






20. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






21. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.






30. 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.






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






32. A condition that is the result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms e.g. A web application is displaying information incorrectly and many users have contacted the IT service desk.






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






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






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






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






37. A technique that is used to identify the most critical path in a project to understand which tasks are most likely to affect the project schedule.






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






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






41. (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






42. An audit of operational efficiency.






43. Collections of Controls that work together to achieve an entire range of an organization's objectives.






44. 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






45. 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






46. The risk that a material error exists that will not be prevented or detected by the organization's control framework - The possibility that a process or procedure will be unable to prevent or deter serious errors and wrongdoing.






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






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






49. 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.






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







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