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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. 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.






2. 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 ________.






3. IS auditors can _____________________ through the following means: (1.) training courses (2.) webinars (3.) ISACA chapter training events (4.) Industry conferences






4. 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.






5. Gantt: used to display ______________.






6. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application






7. A software developer has informed the project manager that a portion of the application development is going to take five additional days to complete. The project manager make a __________________ to document the reason for the change.






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






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






10. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.






11. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified






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






13. 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






14. 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






15. 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?






16. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Governance and control framework (3.) Control Objectives (4.) Management Guidelines (5.) Implementation Guide (6.) IT Assurance Guide






17. 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






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






19. Used for several types of system changes: (1.) Incidents and problem resolution (bug fixes.) (2.) Enhancements (new functionality.) (3.) Subsystem patches and changes (require testing similar to when changes are made to the application itself.)






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






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






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






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






24. 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.






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






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






27. A condition that is the result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms e.g. A web application is displaying information incorrectly and many users have contacted the IT service desk.






28. 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






29. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






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






32. 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.






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.






41. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample






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






43. (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






44. 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






45. 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.






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






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






48. 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






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






50. Handle application processing






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