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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. (1.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication






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






3. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.






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






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






6. (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






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






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






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






10. An estimate that expresses the percent of errors or exceptions that may exist in an entire population






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






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






13. 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.)






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






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






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






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






18. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






20. 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?






21. 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






22. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






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






25. What type of testing is performed to verify the accuracy and integrity of transactions as they flow through a system?






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






27. (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






28. 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.






29. (1.) MPLS (2.) SONET (3.) T-Carrier (4.) Frame Relay (5.) ISDN (6.) X.25






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






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






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






34. 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






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






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






37. 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






38. 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.






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






40. Focuses on: maintaining service availability with the least disruption to standard operating parameters during an event






41. 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






42. 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.






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






44. The primary source for test plans in a software development project is: ________________ that are developed for a project should be the primary source for detailed tests.






45. 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.






46. ____________________ 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






47. 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.






48. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review






49. (1.) General (2.) Application






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