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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. During an audit - the auditor should obtain 6 types of documents - (1.) Org charts (2.) ___________ (3.) third-party contracts (4.) policies and procedures (5.) standards (6.) system documentation






2. 0. No process at all (1.) Process are ad hoc and disorganized (2.) Consistent processes (3.) Documented processes (4.) Measured and managed processes (5.) Processes are continuously improved






3. 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.






4. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






5. A sampling technique used to permit sampling to stop at the earliest possible time. This technique is used when the auditor feels that there is a low risk or low rate of exceptions in the population.






6. 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.






7. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components






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






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






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






11. (1.) Access controls (2.) Encryption (3.) Audit logging






12. Any event which is not part of the standard operation of service and which causes or may cause an interruption to or reduction in quality of that service. Includes THREE incident types: (1.) Service Outage (2.) Service Slowdown (3.) Software Bug






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






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






15. 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.






16. 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






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






18. 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






19. 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.






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






21. 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?






22. 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






23. 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.






24. 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






25. 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.






26. 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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27. 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






28. 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.






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






30. A critical application is backed up once per day. The recovery point objective (RPO) for an application that is backed up once per day cannot be ________.






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






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






33. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine the numeric total of a specific attribute from the entire population.






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






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






36. 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






37. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Governance and control framework (3.) Control Objectives (4.) Management Guidelines (5.) Implementation Guide (6.) IT Assurance Guide






38. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.






39. A computer uses RAM for several purposes: (1.) Operating System - to store info regarding running processes (2.) ____________ - that are used to temporarily store information retrieved from hard disks (3.) Storage of program code (4.) Storage of prog






40. 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.






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






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






43. ____________________ 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






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






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






46. 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.






47. An audit of operational efficiency.






48. 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.






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






50. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.