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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records






2. A database term - which means that the database will not permit a program (or user) to deleted rows from a table if there are records in other tables whose foreign keys reference the row to be deleted.






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






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






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






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






7. The annual expected loss to an asset. It is calculated as the single loss expectancy (SLE) X the annualized rate of occurrence (ARO.)






8. 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






9. A dynamically scalable and usually virtualized computing environment that is provided as a service. Clout computing services may be rented or leased so that an organization can have a scalable application without the need for supporting hardware.






10. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.






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






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






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






14. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






15. A technique that is used to identify the most critical path in a project to understand which tasks are most likely to affect the project schedule.






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






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






18. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.






19. Aids in the coordinating of business processes using a sequence of three events -(1.) Business process creation (2.) Implementation (3.) Maintenance 3a. Benchmarking: Facilitates continuous improvement within the BPLC






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






21. Gantt: used to display ______________.






22. A sampling technique where items are chosen at random; each item has a statistically equal probability of being chosen.






23. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them






24. Support the functioning of the application controls






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






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






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






28. (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






29. 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.






30. 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






31. 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.






32. Critical Path Methodology helps a project manager determine which activities are on a project's critical list - ________________________.






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






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






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. 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






38. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






39. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.






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






42. 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






43. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components






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






45. 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.






46. 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






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






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






49. What type of testing is performed to determine if control procedures have proper design and are operating properly?






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