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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






2. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality






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






4. Gantt: used to display ______________.






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






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






7. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.






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






9. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.






10. 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






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






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






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






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






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






16. 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.






17. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)






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






19. (1.) LAN protocols (2.) 80 (2.) 11 MAC/LLC (WiFi) (3.) Common Carrier packet networks (4.) ARP (5.) PPP and SLIP (6.) Tunneling - PPTP - L2TP






20. 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.






21. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.






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






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






24. The highest number of errors that can exist without a result being materially misstated.






25. 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






26. 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.






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






28. 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.






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






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






31. 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.






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






33. 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






34. 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.






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






36. 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






37. 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.






38. 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.






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






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






41. Delivery of packets from one station to another - on the same network or on different networks.






42. 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?






43. A critical application is backed up once per day. The recovery point objective (RPO) for an application that is backed up once per day cannot be ________.






44. 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






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






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






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






48. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.






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






50. A dynamically scalable and usually virtualized computing environment that is provided as a service. Clout computing services may be rented or leased so that an organization can have a scalable application without the need for supporting hardware.






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