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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. 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






2. (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






3. The primary source for test plans in a software development project is: ________________ that are developed for a project should be the primary source for detailed tests.






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






5. 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






6. (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






7. 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.






8. (1.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas






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






10. 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






11. 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.






12. 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.






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






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






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






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






17. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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






19. 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?






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






21. 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






22. Handle application processing






23. Outsourcing is an opportunity for the organization to focus on core competencies. When an organization oursources a business function - it no longer needs to be concerned about training employees in that function. Outsources does not always reduce co






24. An auditor has reviewed access privileges of some employees and has discovered that employees with longer terms of service have excessive privileges. This means User privileges are not being removed from their old position when they transfer to a new






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






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






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






28. 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 ________.






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






30. 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






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






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






33. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records






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






35. Gantt: used to display ______________.






36. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






38. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






44. The highest number of errors that can exist without a result being materially misstated.






45. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.






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






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






48. 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






49. 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 _________________.






50. 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.







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