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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






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






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






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






5. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.






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






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






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






9. 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.






10. An IS auditor is auditing the change management process for a financial application. The auditor has two primary pieces of evidence: change logs and a written analysis of the change logs performed by a business analyst. The change log is best because






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






12. 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.






13. Handle application processing






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






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






16. 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 _________________.






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






18. The memory locations in the CPU where arithmetic values are stored.






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






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






21. 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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22. 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.






23. 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






24. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems






25. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.






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






27. 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.






28. An auditor has reviewed access privileges of some employees and has discovered that employees with longer terms of service have excessive privileges. This means User privileges are not being removed from their old position when they transfer to a new






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






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






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






33. An audit of a third-party organization that provides services to other organizations.






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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






41. 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






42. (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






43. (1.) Develop a BC Policy (2.) Conduct BIA (3.) Perform critical analysis (4.) Establish recovery targets (5.) Develop recovery and continuity strategies and plans (6.) Test recovery and continuity plans and procedures Train personnel Maintain strateg






44. 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.






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






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






47. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.






48. 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






49. 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






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