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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






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






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






4. Handle application processing






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






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






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






8. 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






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






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






11. 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.






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






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






14. 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.






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






16. 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






17. What three elements allow validation of business practices against acceptable measures of regulatory compliance - performance - and standard operational guidelines.






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






19. The risk that a material error exists that will not be prevented or detected by the organization's control framework - The possibility that a process or procedure will be unable to prevent or deter serious errors and wrongdoing.






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






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






22. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment






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






24. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.






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






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






27. 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.






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






29. 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 ________.






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






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






32. 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.






33. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






34. 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






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery






38. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






40. To review and approve proposed changes to systems and infrastructure. This helps to reduce the risk of unintended events and unplanned downtime.






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






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






43. 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?






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






45. 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






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






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. 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






50. 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.







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