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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






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






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






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






5. 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 ________.






6. Used to schedule and sequence activities in a waterfall-type representation. Planned activities are shown flowing downward to completion. More simplistic than a PERT Diagram.






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






8. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices






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






10. 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.)






11. (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






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






13. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)






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






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






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






17. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






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






19. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






20. 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






21. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.






22. (1.) Feasibility Study (2.) Definition of Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation phase






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






24. 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.






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






26. 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.






27. 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?






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






29. 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.






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






31. An organization has discovered that some of its employees have criminal records. The best course of action for the organization to take - The organization should have ___________________ on all of its existing employees and also begin instituting bac






32. Who is responsible for imposing an IT governance model encompassing IT strategy - information security - and formal enterprise architectural mandates?






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






34. (1.) Develop a BC Policy (2.) Conduct BIA (3.) Perform critical analysis (4.) Establish recovery targets (5.) Develop recovery and continuity strategies and plans (6.) Test recovery and continuity plans and procedures Train personnel Maintain strateg






35. Support the functioning of the application controls






36. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.






37. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.






38. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






44. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






45. Information is arranged in frames and transported across the medium. Collision detection. Checksum verification of delivery.






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






47. 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.






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






49. An auditor has discovered several errors in user account management: many terminated employees' computer accounts are still active. The best course of action - To improve the _________________ to reduce the number of exceptions. For a time - the proc






50. Gantt: used to display ______________.







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