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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






2. 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.






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






4. What activity involves the identification of potential risk and the appropriate response for each threat based on impact assessment using qualitative and/or quantitative measures for an enterprise-wide risk management strategy?






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






6. (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






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






8. (1.) Reliable delivery (2.) Connection oriented (persistent connection) (3.) Order of Delivery (4.) Flow Control (transfer rate is throttled) (5.) Port Number






9. The process to ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of all changes.






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






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. 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






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






14. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.






15. Handle application processing






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






17. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration






18. 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.






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






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






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






22. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices






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






24. Support the functioning of the application controls






25. The means by which management establishes and measures processes by which organizational objectives are achieved






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






27. A condition often identified as a result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms. Problems can also be identified from a single significant incident for which the impact is significant.






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






29. To determine effectiveness of a disaster recovery program - an IT auditor should examine _____________.






30. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






31. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






32. The memory locations in the CPU where arithmetic values are stored.






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






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






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






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Framework (3.) Reporting to External Parties (4.) Evaluation Tools






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






40. An audit report usually includes the following 10 elements: (1.) Cover letter (2.) Introduction (3.) Summary (4.) Audit description (5.) _______________ (6.) Interviewees (7.) Evidence (8.) Explanation of sampling techniques (9.) Findings (10.) Recom






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






43. 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






44. 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






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






46. Outsourcing is an opportunity for the organization to focus on core competencies. When an organization oursources a business function - it no longer needs to be concerned about training employees in that function. Outsources does not always reduce co






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






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






49. 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






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