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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






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






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






4. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






5. A database term - which means that the database will not permit a program (or user) to deleted rows from a table if there are records in other tables whose foreign keys reference the row to be deleted.






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






7. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






8. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.






9. 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.






10. A large number of loosely coupled computers that are used to solve a common task may be in close proximity to each other or scattered over a large geographical area.






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






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






13. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






14. 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.)






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






16. 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.






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






18. An audit of an accounting system - accounting department processes - and procedures to determine if business controls are sufficient to ensure the integrity of financial statements.






19. An alternate processing center that contains no information processing equipment.






20. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.






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






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






23. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application






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






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






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






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






28. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






30. 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.






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






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






33. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.






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






35. To determine effectiveness of a disaster recovery program - an IT auditor should examine _____________.






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






37. Collections of Controls that work together to achieve an entire range of an organization's objectives.






38. Handle application processing






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






40. A dynamically scalable and usually virtualized computing environment that is provided as a service. Clout computing services may be rented or leased so that an organization can have a scalable application without the need for supporting hardware.






41. 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






42. An active - instance of a server operating system running on a machine that is designed to house two or more such virtual servers.






43. 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






44. The party that performs strategic planning - addresses near-term and long-term requirements aligning business objectives - and technology strategies.






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






46. 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.






47. An IS auditor is auditing the change management process for a financial application. The auditor has two primary pieces of evidence: change logs and a written analysis of the change logs performed by a business analyst. The change log is best because






48. 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






49. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.






50. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP