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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






2. 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






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






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






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






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






7. 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.)






8. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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






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






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






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






13. 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






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






15. A sampling technique used to permit sampling to stop at the earliest possible time. This technique is used when the auditor feels that there is a low risk or low rate of exceptions in the population.






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. 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.






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






19. 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






20. 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






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






22. 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






23. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






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






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






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






28. Aids in the coordinating of business processes using a sequence of three events -(1.) Business process creation (2.) Implementation (3.) Maintenance 3a. Benchmarking: Facilitates continuous improvement within the BPLC






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






30. 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.






31. 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.






32. Support the functioning of the application controls






33. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






34. 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.






35. Handle application processing






36. 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






37. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.






45. 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.






46. (1.) General (2.) Application






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






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






49. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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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