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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. An IS auditor has discovered a high-risk exception during control testing. The best course of action for the IS auditor to take - The IS auditor should immediately ________________ when any high-risk situation is discovered.






2. 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.






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






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






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






6. 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






7. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Governance and control framework (3.) Control Objectives (4.) Management Guidelines (5.) Implementation Guide (6.) IT Assurance Guide






8. (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






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






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






11. (1.) Access controls (2.) Encryption (3.) Audit logging






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






13. n audit strategy and plans that include: (1.) Scope (2.) Objectives (3.) Resources (4.) Procedures used to evaluation controls and processes






14. 1.) Executive Support (2.) Well-defined roles and responsibilities.






15. 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 ________.






16. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






17. 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)






18. An auditor has detected potential fraud while testing a control objective - He should ___________________. Because Audit committee members are generally not involved in business operations - they will be sufficiently remove from the matter - and they






19. (1.) General (2.) Application






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






21. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






22. The means by which management establishes and measures processes by which organizational objectives are achieved






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






24. 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.)






25. 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






26. 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






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






28. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






29. 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






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






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






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






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






34. 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.






35. 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






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






41. ____________________ of the hot site is most important consideration for site selection. IF they are too close together then a single event may involve both locations






42. 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.






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






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






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






46. 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.






47. An organization is building a data center in an area frequented by power outages. The organization cannot tolerate power outages. The best _________________solution is an electric generator and an uninterruptible power supply. The UPS responds to the






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






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






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







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