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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






2. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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






4. An audit of a third-party organization that provides services to other organizations.






5. Gantt: used to display ______________.






6. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.






7. 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.






8. (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






9. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.






10. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.






11. 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






12. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.






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






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






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






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






17. (1.) Feasibility (2.) Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation






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






19. 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






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






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






22. 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.






23. 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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24. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components






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






26. 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






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. 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.






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






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






31. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






33. 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






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






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






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






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






38. 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.)






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






40. 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.






41. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified






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






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






44. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient






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






46. 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.






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 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






49. (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






50. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.







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