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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. The set of activities that is concerned with the ability of the organization to continue to provide services - primarily in the event that a natural or man made disaster has occurred.






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






3. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning






4. 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.






5. 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






6. 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.






7. To determine effectiveness of a disaster recovery program - an IT auditor should examine _____________.






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






9. 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?






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






11. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






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






14. The maximum period of downtime for a process or application






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






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






17. 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.






18. Guide program execution through organization of resources and development of clear project objectives.






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






21. An auditor has detected potential fraud while testing a control objective - He should ___________________. Because Audit committee members are generally not involved in business operations - they will be sufficiently remove from the matter - and they






22. What type of testing is performed to determine if control procedures have proper design and are operating properly?






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






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






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






26. 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






27. An external IS auditor has discovered a _______________________ - The external auditor can only document the finding in the audit report. An external auditor is not in a position to implement controls.






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






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






30. The main hardware component of a computer system - which executes instructions in computer programs.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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 ________.






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






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






42. In Release Management - _________________ means that each step of the release process undergoes formal review and approval before the next step is allowed to begin.






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






44. 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






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






46. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






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






49. Handle application processing






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