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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






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






3. A representation of how closely a sample represents an entire population.






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






5. (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






6. 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 _________________.






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






8. The purpose of an auditor doing interviews - To observe personnel to better understand their discipline - as well as ______________.






9. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider






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






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






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






13. An audit of operational efficiency.






14. 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






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






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






17. 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.)






18. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






19. 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.






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






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






22. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.






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






24. 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






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






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






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






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






29. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)






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






31. To review and approve proposed changes to systems and infrastructure. This helps to reduce the risk of unintended events and unplanned downtime.






32. A sampling technique where a population is divided into classes or strata - based upon the value of one of the attributes. Samples are then selected from each class.






33. 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






34. An organization wants to reduce the number of user IDs and passwords that its employees need to remember. The best available solution to this - _______________. This provides a single authentication service (such as LDAP or AD) that many applications






35. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application






36. 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






37. 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.






38. ____________________ 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






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






40. 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






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






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






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






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






45. A sampling technique where at least one exception is sought in a population






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






47. 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.






48. 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.






49. 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






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