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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. 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






2. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.






3. 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






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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






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






12. 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






13. The set of activities that is concerned with the ability of the organization to continue to provide services - primarily in the event that a natural or man made disaster has occurred.






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






15. A tightly coupled collection of computers that are used to solve a common task. One or more actively perform tasks - while zero or more may be in a standby state.






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






17. 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.






18. 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.






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






20. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






21. IS auditors can _____________________ through the following means: (1.) training courses (2.) webinars (3.) ISACA chapter training events (4.) Industry conferences






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






23. 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 ________.






24. 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.






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






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






27. 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.






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






29. 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






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






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






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






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






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






35. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient






36. 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






37. An external IS auditor has discovered a _______________________ - The external auditor can only document the finding in the audit report. An external auditor is not in a position to implement controls.






38. To communication security policies - procedures - and other security-related information to an organization's employees.






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






40. Application controls limit ___________ in three ways: (1.) Point of Entry (Input Controls) (2.) During consumption (process controls) (3.) At the point of expression (Output Controls)






41. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. Support the functioning of the application controls






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






50. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual