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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






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






3. An IS auditor needs to perform an audit of a financial system and needs to trace individual transactions through the system. What type of testing should the auditor perform?






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






5. The main hardware component of a computer system - which executes instructions in computer programs.






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






7. (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






8. 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.






9. 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






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






12. (1.) Reliable delivery (2.) Connection oriented (persistent connection) (3.) Order of Delivery (4.) Flow Control (transfer rate is throttled) (5.) Port Number






13. 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






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






15. Support the functioning of the application controls






16. An auditor has discovered that several administrators in an application share an administrative account. The auditor should recommend that - Several __________________ should be used. This will enforce accountability for each administrator's actions.






17. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






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






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






20. 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






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






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






23. 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






24. A sampling technique used to permit sampling to stop at the earliest possible time. This technique is used when the auditor feels that there is a low risk or low rate of exceptions in the population.






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






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






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






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






29. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.






30. 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






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






32. Subjective sampling is used when the auditor wants to _________________________.






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






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






35. 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






36. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review






37. (1.) Access Control (2.) Change Management (3.) Security Controls (4.) Incident Management (5.) SDLC (6.) Source code and versioning controls (7.) Monitoring and logging (8.) Event Management






38. Used to measure the relative maturity of an organization and its processes.






39. 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






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






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






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






43. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






44. 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






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






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






47. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.






48. 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






49. 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.






50. The memory locations in the CPU where arithmetic values are stored.







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