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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






2. 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






3. 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.






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






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






6. (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






7. 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






8. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.






9. 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 _________________.






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






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






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






13. 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.






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






15. 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 ________.






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






17. Who is responsible for imposing an IT governance model encompassing IT strategy - information security - and formal enterprise architectural mandates?






18. 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






19. 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.






20. 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.






21. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






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






24. 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






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






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






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






28. The main hardware component of a computer system - which executes instructions in computer programs.






29. The memory locations in the CPU where arithmetic values are stored.






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






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






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






33. 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.






34. 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.






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






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






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






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






39. A condition often identified as a result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms. Problems can also be identified from a single significant incident for which the impact is significant.






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






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






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






43. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






44. 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.






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






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






47. 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.






48. 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.






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






50. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.