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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






2. 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






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






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






5. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time






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






7. A tightly coupled collection of computers that are used to solve a common task. One or more actively perform tasks - while zero or more may be in a standby state.






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






9. (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






10. Gantt: used to display ______________.






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






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






13. Aids in the coordinating of business processes using a sequence of three events -(1.) Business process creation (2.) Implementation (3.) Maintenance 3a. Benchmarking: Facilitates continuous improvement within the BPLC






14. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






16. 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 ________.






17. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider






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






19. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






20. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.






21. To ensure that input values are within established ranges - of the correct character types - and free of harmful contents.






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






23. Support the functioning of the application controls






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






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






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






27. 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.






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






29. The annual expected loss to an asset. It is calculated as the single loss expectancy (SLE) X the annualized rate of occurrence (ARO.)






30. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.






31. Should include 4 steps: (1.) Emergency Approval (2.) Implementation (3.) Verification (4.) Review






32. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.






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






34. 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






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






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






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






38. 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






39. 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.






40. 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






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






42. 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?






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






44. 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






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






46. 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






47. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.






48. 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.)






49. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






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







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