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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






2. 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.






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






4. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






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






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






11. 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






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






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






15. 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.






16. Gantt: used to display ______________.






17. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.






18. 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






19. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






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






22. 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.






23. A sampling technique where items are chosen at random; each item has a statistically equal probability of being chosen.






24. 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






25. 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






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






27. 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.






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






29. 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






30. 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.






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






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






33. (1.) General (2.) Application






34. 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 _________________.






35. An audit that is performed in support of an anticipated or active legal proceeding.






36. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






42. (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






43. 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.






44. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






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






47. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






48. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






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