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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. 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.






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






3. 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






4. 0. No process at all (1.) Process are ad hoc and disorganized (2.) Consistent processes (3.) Documented processes (4.) Measured and managed processes (5.) Processes are continuously improved






5. Outsourcing is an opportunity for the organization to focus on core competencies. When an organization oursources a business function - it no longer needs to be concerned about training employees in that function. Outsources does not always reduce co






6. (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






7. Gantt: used to display ______________.






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






9. A sampling technique where items are chosen at random; each item has a statistically equal probability of being chosen.






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






11. An organization experiences frequent malware infections on end-user workstations that are received through email - despite the tact that workstations have anti-virus software. To reducing malware - Implementing ________________ will provide an effect






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






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






14. 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






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






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






17. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






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






20. 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.






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






22. 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






23. 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






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






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






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






27. 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.






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






29. What activity involves the identification of potential risk and the appropriate response for each threat based on impact assessment using qualitative and/or quantitative measures for an enterprise-wide risk management strategy?






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






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






32. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






34. (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






35. 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






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






37. A condition that is the result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms e.g. A web application is displaying information incorrectly and many users have contacted the IT service desk.






38. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time






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






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






41. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.






42. An audit report usually includes the following 10 elements: (1.) Cover letter (2.) Introduction (3.) Summary (4.) Audit description (5.) _______________ (6.) Interviewees (7.) Evidence (8.) Explanation of sampling techniques (9.) Findings (10.) Recom






43. 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






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






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






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






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






48. Focuses on: maintaining service availability with the least disruption to standard operating parameters during an event






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






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