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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. The purpose of an auditor doing interviews - To observe personnel to better understand their discipline - as well as ______________.






2. Support the functioning of the application controls






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






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






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






6. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.






7. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.






8. 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 _________________.






9. Gantt: used to display ______________.






10. Application controls limit ___________ in three ways: (1.) Point of Entry (Input Controls) (2.) During consumption (process controls) (3.) At the point of expression (Output Controls)






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






12. 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.






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






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






15. An auditor has discovered several errors in user account management: many terminated employees' computer accounts are still active. The best course of action - To improve the _________________ to reduce the number of exceptions. For a time - the proc






16. An organization has discovered that some of its employees have criminal records. The best course of action for the organization to take - The organization should have ___________________ on all of its existing employees and also begin instituting bac






17. 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.






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






19. A field in a record in one table that can reference a primary key in another table that can reference a primary key in another table.






20. 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






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






22. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






23. 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?






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






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






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






27. Used to control connections that are established between systems (1.) TCP (2.) IPC (3.) SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) (4.) RPC (Remote Procedure Call) (5.) NetBIOS






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






29. 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.






30. 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.






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






32. 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.






33. 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.






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






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






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






38. Deliver messages from one station to another on the same network or on different networks. Messaging at this layer is not guaranteed.






39. A Fire sprinkler system has water in its pipes - and sprinkler heads emit water only if the ambient temperature reaches 220 deg. F. This is a ________________. The system is charged with water and will discharge water out of any sprinkler head whose






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






41. (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






42. 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






43. 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.






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






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






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






47. 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






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






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






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