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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






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






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






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






5. (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






6. 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






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






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






9. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






10. (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






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






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






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






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






16. An IS auditor is examining the IT standards document for an organization that was last reviewed two years earlier. The best course of action for the IS auditor is: Report that the ____________________________. Two years is far too long between revie






17. 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






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






19. 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






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






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






22. Used to control connections that are established between systems (1.) TCP (2.) IPC (3.) SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) (4.) RPC (Remote Procedure Call) (5.) NetBIOS






23. 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.






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






25. 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.






26. 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.






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






28. An external IS auditor has discovered a _______________________ - The external auditor can only document the finding in the audit report. An external auditor is not in a position to implement controls.






29. 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






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






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






32. 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.






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






34. 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.






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






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






37. 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.






38. (1.) General (2.) Application






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






40. External auditors are needed under these conditions: (1.) When the organization ________________________. (2.) Some regulations and standards require external - independent auditors






41. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.






42. Application controls limit ___________ in three ways: (1.) Point of Entry (Input Controls) (2.) During consumption (process controls) (3.) At the point of expression (Output Controls)






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






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






45. 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.






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






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






48. 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.






49. 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?






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







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