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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. 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.






2. (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






3. 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






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






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






6. 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






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






8. What activity involves the identification of potential risk and the appropriate response for each threat based on impact assessment using qualitative and/or quantitative measures for an enterprise-wide risk management strategy?






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






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






11. 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






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






13. Handle application processing






14. 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.






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






16. ____________________ 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






17. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






18. 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.






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






20. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






21. 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






22. (1.) General (2.) Application






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






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






25. An audit of an accounting system - accounting department processes - and procedures to determine if business controls are sufficient to ensure the integrity of financial statements.






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






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






28. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.






29. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






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






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






33. A software developer has informed the project manager that a portion of the application development is going to take five additional days to complete. The project manager make a __________________ to document the reason for the change.






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






35. 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.






36. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






37. 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






38. The annual expected loss to an asset. It is calculated as the single loss expectancy (SLE) X the annualized rate of occurrence (ARO.)






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






40. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records






41. 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.






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






43. Gantt: used to display ______________.






44. (1.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas






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






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






47. (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






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






49. 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






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







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