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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. 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.






2. Critical Path Methodology helps a project manager determine which activities are on a project's critical list - ________________________.






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






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. 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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6. (1.) Access Control (2.) Change Management (3.) Security Controls (4.) Incident Management (5.) SDLC (6.) Source code and versioning controls (7.) Monitoring and logging (8.) Event Management






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






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






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






10. 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






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






12. 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 ________.






13. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.






14. 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.






15. 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.






16. An organization experiences frequent malware infections on end-user workstations that are received through email - despite the tact that workstations have anti-virus software. To reducing malware - Implementing ________________ will provide an effect






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






18. ____________________ 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






19. 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






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






21. The means by which management establishes and measures processes by which organizational objectives are achieved






22. 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.






23. A collection of two or more servers that is designed to appear as a single server.






24. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.






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






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






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






28. Application controls limit ___________ in three ways: (1.) Point of Entry (Input Controls) (2.) During consumption (process controls) (3.) At the point of expression (Output Controls)






29. 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






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






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






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






33. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






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






36. 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.






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






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






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






40. 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






41. Subjective sampling is used when the auditor wants to _________________________.






42. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Framework (3.) Reporting to External Parties (4.) Evaluation Tools






43. 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






44. 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






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






46. 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.






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






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






49. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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