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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






2. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality






3. 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.






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






5. A database term - which means that the database will not permit a program (or user) to deleted rows from a table if there are records in other tables whose foreign keys reference the row to be deleted.






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






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






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






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






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






11. 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






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






13. 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.






14. A technique that is used to identify the most critical path in a project to understand which tasks are most likely to affect the project schedule.






15. Any event which is not part of the standard operation of service and which causes or may cause an interruption to or reduction in quality of that service. Includes THREE incident types: (1.) Service Outage (2.) Service Slowdown (3.) Software Bug






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






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






18. 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.






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






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






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






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






23. (1.) LAN protocols (2.) 80 (2.) 11 MAC/LLC (WiFi) (3.) Common Carrier packet networks (4.) ARP (5.) PPP and SLIP (6.) Tunneling - PPTP - L2TP






24. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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






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






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






28. An audit that is performed in support of an anticipated or active legal proceeding.






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






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






31. 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.






32. 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 _________________.






33. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






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






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






37. 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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38. Information is arranged in frames and transported across the medium. Collision detection. Checksum verification of delivery.






39. An IS auditor is auditing the change management process for a financial application. The auditor has two primary pieces of evidence: change logs and a written analysis of the change logs performed by a business analyst. The change log is best because






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






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






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






43. (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






44. In Release Management - _________________ means that each step of the release process undergoes formal review and approval before the next step is allowed to begin.






45. To communication security policies - procedures - and other security-related information to an organization's employees.






46. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act






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






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






49. Focuses on: post-event recovery and restoration of services






50. A facility that is used to store and manage access to an organization's application source and object code. It consists of 5 parts: (1.) Access and authorization controls (2.) Program checkout (3.) Program Check-in (4.) Version Control (5.) Code Ana