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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. 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?






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






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






4. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery






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






6. A condition often identified as a result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms. Problems can also be identified from a single significant incident for which the impact is significant.






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






8. An auditor is examining a key management process and has found that the IT department is not following its split-custody procedure. As a result - Someone may be in possession of the _________________.






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






10. An audit report usually includes the following 10 elements: (1.) Cover letter (2.) Introduction (3.) Summary (4.) Audit description (5.) _______________ (6.) Interviewees (7.) Evidence (8.) Explanation of sampling techniques (9.) Findings (10.) Recom






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






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






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






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






15. A sampling technique where a population is divided into classes or strata - based upon the value of one of the attributes. Samples are then selected from each class.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






24. 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.






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






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






27. Used to measure the relative maturity of an organization and its processes.






28. A sampling technique where at least one exception is sought in a population






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






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






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






32. 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






33. 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.






34. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






36. Define 10 elements of an Audit - (1.) Subject of audit (2.) Audit Objective (3.) Type of audit (4.) Audit scope (5.) Pre-audit planning (6.) Audit procedures (7.) Communication plan (8.) Report Preparation (9.) Wrap-up (10.) Post-audit follow-up






37. 0. No process at all (1.) Process are ad hoc and disorganized (2.) Consistent processes (3.) Documented processes (4.) Measured and managed processes (5.) Processes are continuously improved






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






39. 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.






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






41. 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.






42. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine how many samples possess a specific characteristic.






43. A representation of how closely a sample represents an entire population.






44. 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.






45. 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






46. 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.






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






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






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