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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






2. 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






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






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






5. 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.






6. 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.






7. 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






8. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






9. 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






10. (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






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






12. Gantt: used to display ______________.






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






14. (1.) General (2.) Application






15. 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 _________________.






16. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient






17. (1.) Feasibility (2.) Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation






18. 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






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






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






21. 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.






22. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.






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






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






25. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






26. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. 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






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






39. (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






40. A quantitative risk analysis is __________________ because: It is difficult to get accurate figures on the frequency of specific threats. It is difficult to determine the probability that a threat will be realized. It is relatively easy to determine






41. 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






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






43. An auditor has discovered that several administrators in an application share an administrative account. The auditor should recommend that - Several __________________ should be used. This will enforce accountability for each administrator's actions.






44. A dynamically scalable and usually virtualized computing environment that is provided as a service. Clout computing services may be rented or leased so that an organization can have a scalable application without the need for supporting hardware.






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






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






47. Support the functioning of the application controls






48. The IS auditor should conduct a risk assessment first to determine which areas have highest risk. She should devote more testing resources to those high-risk areas.






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






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







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