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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






2. 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






3. 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.






4. 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






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






6. An IS auditor is auditing the change management process for a financial application. The auditor has two primary pieces of evidence: change logs and a written analysis of the change logs performed by a business analyst. The change log is best because






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






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






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






10. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






11. 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.






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






13. 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






14. A condition that is the result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms e.g. A web application is displaying information incorrectly and many users have contacted the IT service desk.






15. 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






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






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






18. 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 _________________.






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






20. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






21. 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.






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






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






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






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






26. 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.






27. What three elements allow validation of business practices against acceptable measures of regulatory compliance - performance - and standard operational guidelines.






28. 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.






29. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.






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






31. 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.






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






33. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified






34. An organization has chosen to open a business office in another country where labor costs are lower and has hired workers to perform business functions there. - The organization is ___________ - while they may have opened the office in a foreign coun






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






36. ____________________ 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






37. An active - instance of a server operating system running on a machine that is designed to house two or more such virtual servers.






38. 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.






39. 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.






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






41. 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






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






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






44. 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






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






46. 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






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






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






49. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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







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