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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






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






3. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.






4. Aids in the coordinating of business processes using a sequence of three events -(1.) Business process creation (2.) Implementation (3.) Maintenance 3a. Benchmarking: Facilitates continuous improvement within the BPLC






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






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






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






8. 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






9. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.






10. The maximum period of downtime for a process or application






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






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






18. 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






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






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






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






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






23. 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






24. An audit of a third-party organization that provides services to other organizations.






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






26. ____________________ 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






27. What type of testing is performed to verify the accuracy and integrity of transactions as they flow through a system?






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






29. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






31. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






32. A sampling technique where items are chosen at random; each item has a statistically equal probability of being chosen.






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






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






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






36. 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.






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






38. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.






39. 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






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






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






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






43. 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






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






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






46. 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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47. (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






48. 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.






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






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