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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






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






3. 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






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






5. The party that performs strategic planning - addresses near-term and long-term requirements aligning business objectives - and technology strategies.






6. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified






7. 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.






8. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.






9. A CMM helps an organization to _______________ - which is an important first step to any large-scale process improvement effort.






10. 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.






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






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






13. 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






14. (1.) Developers (2.) Architects (3.) Analysts (4.) Users






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






16. A technique that is used to identify the most critical path in a project to understand which tasks are most likely to affect the project schedule.






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






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






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






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






21. 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.






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






23. 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






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






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






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






27. A facility that is used to store and manage access to an organization's application source and object code. It consists of 5 parts: (1.) Access and authorization controls (2.) Program checkout (3.) Program Check-in (4.) Version Control (5.) Code Ana






28. 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






29. Deliver messages from one station to another on the same network or on different networks. Messaging at this layer is not guaranteed.






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






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






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. 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.






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






36. 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.)






37. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.






38. 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






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






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






41. 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.






42. ____________________ 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






43. 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






44. (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






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






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






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






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






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






50. 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







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