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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. An audit that combines an operational audit and a financial audit.






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






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






4. (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






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






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






7. 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.






8. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.






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






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






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. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






13. Framework for auditing and measuring IT Service Management Processes.






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. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






16. Must be tested to validate effectiveness through: (1.) Document Review (2.) Walkthrough (3.) Simulation (4.) Parallel testing (5.) Cutover testing practices






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






18. Used to estimate the effort required to develop a software program.






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






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






21. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






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






23. An external IS auditor has discovered a _______________________ - The external auditor can only document the finding in the audit report. An external auditor is not in a position to implement controls.






24. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






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






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






28. 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






29. 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






30. Used to determine which business processes are the most critical - by ranking them in order of criticality






31. Who is responsible for imposing an IT governance model encompassing IT strategy - information security - and formal enterprise architectural mandates?






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






33. An auditor is examining a key management process and has found that the IT department is not following its split-custody procedure. As a result - Someone may be in possession of the _________________.






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






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






36. 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.






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






38. 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.






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






40. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records






41. 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 ________.






42. 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






43. 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






44. Guide program execution through organization of resources and development of clear project objectives.






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






46. A database administrator has been asked to configure a database management system so that it records all changes made by users - The DBA should implement ___________. This will cause the database to record every change that is made to it.






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






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






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






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