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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. 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






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






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






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






5. 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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6. 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.






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






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






9. An IS auditor needs to perform an audit of a financial system and needs to trace individual transactions through the system. What type of testing should the auditor perform?






10. An audit of an IS department's operations and systems.






11. (1.) General (2.) Application






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






13. 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.






14. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






21. The primary source for test plans in a software development project is: ________________ that are developed for a project should be the primary source for detailed tests.






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






23. An IS auditor is examining the IT standards document for an organization that was last reviewed two years earlier. The best course of action for the IS auditor is: Report that the ____________________________. Two years is far too long between revie






24. 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.






25. ____________________ of the hot site is most important consideration for site selection. IF they are too close together then a single event may involve both locations






26. 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.)






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






28. 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






29. The portion of IT management that tracks the financial value of IT services that support organizational objectives. It includes 4 activities: (1.) Budgeting (2.) Capital Investment (3.) Expense Management (4.) Project accounting and project ROI (Ret






30. Support the functioning of the application controls






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






32. 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






33. 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






34. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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






36. 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.






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






38. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






39. Gantt: used to display ______________.






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






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






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






43. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.






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






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






46. 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.






47. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






48. 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.






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






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