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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






2. During the development phase - Developers should only be performing Unit Testing - to verify that the individual sections of code they have written are performing properly.






3. A Fire sprinkler system has water in its pipes - and sprinkler heads emit water only if the ambient temperature reaches 220 deg. F. This is a ________________. The system is charged with water and will discharge water out of any sprinkler head whose






4. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems






5. 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.






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






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






8. 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.






9. (1.) Physical (2.) Technical (4.) Administrative






10. Support the functioning of the application controls






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






12. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning






13. 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






14. To communication security policies - procedures - and other security-related information to an organization's employees.






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






16. 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.






17. A computer uses RAM for several purposes: (1.) Operating System - to store info regarding running processes (2.) ____________ - that are used to temporarily store information retrieved from hard disks (3.) Storage of program code (4.) Storage of prog






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






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






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






21. 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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22. (1.) IP (2.) ICMP (3.) RRC (Radio Resource Control) (4.) AppleTalk






23. (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






24. 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.






25. 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.






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






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






28. 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.






29. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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






31. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






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






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






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






36. In Release Management - _________________ means that each step of the release process undergoes formal review and approval before the next step is allowed to begin.






37. 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.






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






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






40. 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.






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. (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






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






44. 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.






45. An IS auditor is examining the IT standards document for an organization that was last reviewed two years earlier. The best course of action for the IS auditor is: Report that the ____________________________. Two years is far too long between revie






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






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






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






49. Delivery of packets from one station to another - on the same network or on different networks.






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