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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






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






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






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






5. 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






6. 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.






7. What three elements allow validation of business practices against acceptable measures of regulatory compliance - performance - and standard operational guidelines.






8. (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






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






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






11. Support the functioning of the application controls






12. Gantt: used to display ______________.






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






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






15. A condition that is the result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms e.g. A web application is displaying information incorrectly and many users have contacted the IT service desk.






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






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






18. 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






19. 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.






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






21. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






22. 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.






23. During an audit - the auditor should obtain 6 types of documents - (1.) Org charts (2.) ___________ (3.) third-party contracts (4.) policies and procedures (5.) standards (6.) system documentation






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






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






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






27. 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.






28. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine how many samples possess a specific characteristic.






29. 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






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






31. 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.






32. 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.






33. Used to control connections that are established between systems (1.) TCP (2.) IPC (3.) SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) (4.) RPC (Remote Procedure Call) (5.) NetBIOS






34. (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






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






36. Critical Path Methodology helps a project manager determine which activities are on a project's critical list - ________________________.






37. To ensure that input values are within established ranges - of the correct character types - and free of harmful contents.






38. 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






39. (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






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






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






42. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - as the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient.






43. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment






44. 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)






45. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery






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






47. (1.) General (2.) Application






48. (1.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas






49. 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.






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







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