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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. (1.) LAN protocols (2.) 80 (2.) 11 MAC/LLC (WiFi) (3.) Common Carrier packet networks (4.) ARP (5.) PPP and SLIP (6.) Tunneling - PPTP - L2TP






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






3. 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.






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






5. 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)






6. During the development phase - Developers should only be performing Unit Testing - to verify that the individual sections of code they have written are performing properly.






7. 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.






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






9. 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






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






11. Consists of 11 distinct activities: (1.) Service Desk (2.) Incident Management (3.) Problem Management (4.) Change Management (5.) Configuration Management (6.) Release Management (7.) Service-level Management (8.) Financial Management (9.) Capacity






12. (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






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






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






15. Define 10 elements of an Audit - (1.) Subject of audit (2.) Audit Objective (3.) Type of audit (4.) Audit scope (5.) Pre-audit planning (6.) Audit procedures (7.) Communication plan (8.) Report Preparation (9.) Wrap-up (10.) Post-audit follow-up






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






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






18. A collection of two or more servers that is designed to appear as a single server.






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






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






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






22. 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






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






24. 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.






25. 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.






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






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






28. 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?






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






30. 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






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






32. 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.)






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






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






35. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






36. To measure organizational performance and effectiveness against strategic goals.






37. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.






38. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






40. 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.






41. A CMM helps an organization to _______________ - which is an important first step to any large-scale process improvement effort.






42. A programmer is updating an application that saves passwords in plaintext. In this case - Passwords should be stored in a _____. This makes it impossible for any person to retrieve a password - which could lead to account compromise.






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






44. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






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






47. (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






48. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






49. 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.






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







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