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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






2. 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.






3. 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.






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






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






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






7. (1.) General (2.) Application






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






9. 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






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






11. Subjective sampling is used when the auditor wants to _________________________.






12. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records






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






14. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application






15. 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






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






17. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






18. The IS auditor should conduct a risk assessment first to determine which areas have highest risk. She should devote more testing resources to those high-risk areas.






19. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






21. 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.






22. 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.






23. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.






24. 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






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






26. (1.) Access controls (2.) Encryption (3.) Audit logging






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






28. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment






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






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






31. 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.)






32. n audit strategy and plans that include: (1.) Scope (2.) Objectives (3.) Resources (4.) Procedures used to evaluation controls and processes






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






34. 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






35. 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.






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






37. (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






38. An IS auditor has discovered a high-risk exception during control testing. The best course of action for the IS auditor to take - The IS auditor should immediately ________________ when any high-risk situation is discovered.






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






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






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






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






44. 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






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






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






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






48. In Release Management - _________________ means that each step of the release process undergoes formal review and approval before the next step is allowed to begin.






49. Guide program execution through organization of resources and development of clear project objectives.






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