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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. 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.






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






3. 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






4. 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






5. 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






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






7. A representation of how closely a sample represents an entire population.






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






9. 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






10. (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






11. An active - instance of a server operating system running on a machine that is designed to house two or more such virtual servers.






12. An audit report usually includes the following 10 elements: (1.) Cover letter (2.) Introduction (3.) Summary (4.) Audit description (5.) _______________ (6.) Interviewees (7.) Evidence (8.) Explanation of sampling techniques (9.) Findings (10.) Recom






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






14. (1.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication






15. Used to control connections that are established between systems (1.) TCP (2.) IPC (3.) SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) (4.) RPC (Remote Procedure Call) (5.) NetBIOS






16. Support the functioning of the application controls






17. 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






18. 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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19. (1.) Access Control (2.) Change Management (3.) Security Controls (4.) Incident Management (5.) SDLC (6.) Source code and versioning controls (7.) Monitoring and logging (8.) Event Management






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






21. 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.






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






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






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






25. 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






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






27. 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.






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






29. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.






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






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






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






33. 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?






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






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






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






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






38. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






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






41. An audit of an IS department's operations and systems.






42. 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






43. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






44. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Framework (3.) Reporting to External Parties (4.) Evaluation Tools






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






46. 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






47. The primary source for test plans in a software development project is: ________________ that are developed for a project should be the primary source for detailed tests.






48. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






49. A large number of loosely coupled computers that are used to solve a common task may be in close proximity to each other or scattered over a large geographical area.






50. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.







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