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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. Should include 4 steps: (1.) Emergency Approval (2.) Implementation (3.) Verification (4.) Review






2. 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.)






3. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






5. 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






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






7. 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 _________________.






8. 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






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






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






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






12. Used to estimate the effort required to develop a software program.






13. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act






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






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






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






17. 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 ________.






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






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. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time






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






22. 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.






23. 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.






24. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






25. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample






26. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.






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






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






29. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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






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






32. 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






33. ____________________ of the hot site is most important consideration for site selection. IF they are too close together then a single event may involve both locations






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






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






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






37. 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.






38. 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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39. 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.






40. A Fire sprinkler system has water in its pipes - and sprinkler heads emit water only if the ambient temperature reaches 220 deg. F. This is a ________________. The system is charged with water and will discharge water out of any sprinkler head whose






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






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






43. Focuses on: post-event recovery and restoration of services






44. 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.






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






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






47. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery






48. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.






49. 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






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