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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. To communication security policies - procedures - and other security-related information to an organization's employees.






2. 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.






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






4. 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.






5. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time






6. (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






7. An organization is building a data center in an area frequented by power outages. The organization cannot tolerate power outages. The best _________________solution is an electric generator and an uninterruptible power supply. The UPS responds to the






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






9. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






10. n audit strategy and plans that include: (1.) Scope (2.) Objectives (3.) Resources (4.) Procedures used to evaluation controls and processes






11. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






12. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.






13. 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.






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






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






16. 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.






17. 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.






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






19. The IS auditor should conduct a risk assessment first to determine which areas have highest risk. She should devote more testing resources to those high-risk areas.






20. (1.) Reliable delivery (2.) Connection oriented (persistent connection) (3.) Order of Delivery (4.) Flow Control (transfer rate is throttled) (5.) Port Number






21. 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






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






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






24. 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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25. (1.) General (2.) Application






26. 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.






27. 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.






28. 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






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






30. IS auditors can _____________________ through the following means: (1.) training courses (2.) webinars (3.) ISACA chapter training events (4.) Industry conferences






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






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






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






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






35. An audit of an IS department's operations and systems.






36. 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






37. 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






38. Consists of 11 distinct activities: (1.) Service Desk (2.) Incident Management (3.) Problem Management (4.) Change Management (5.) Configuration Management (6.) Release Management (7.) Service-level Management (8.) Financial Management (9.) Capacity






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






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






41. Handle application processing






42. (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






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






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






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






46. 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.)






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






48. ____________________ 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






49. 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.






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






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