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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. 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.






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






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






4. 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






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






6. (1.) General (2.) Application






7. Consists of 11 distinct activities: (1.) Service Desk (2.) Incident Management (3.) Problem Management (4.) Change Management (5.) Configuration Management (6.) Release Management (7.) Service-level Management (8.) Financial Management (9.) Capacity






8. The process of recording the configuration of IT systems. Each configuration setting is known in ITSM parlance as a Configuration Item.






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






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






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






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






13. The 5 types of risks that are related to audits include: (1.) Control Risk (2.) Detection Risk (3.) Inherent risk (4.) _____________ (5.) Sampling risk






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






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






16. 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 ________.






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






18. A facility that is used to store and manage access to an organization's application source and object code. It consists of 5 parts: (1.) Access and authorization controls (2.) Program checkout (3.) Program Check-in (4.) Version Control (5.) Code Ana






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






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






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






22. Support the functioning of the application controls






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. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






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






27. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






29. 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.






30. 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.






31. An organization has discovered that some of its employees have criminal records. The best course of action for the organization to take - The organization should have ___________________ on all of its existing employees and also begin instituting bac






32. Information is arranged in frames and transported across the medium. Collision detection. Checksum verification of delivery.






33. 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.






34. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample






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






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. An audit that is performed in support of an anticipated or active legal proceeding.






39. 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.






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






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. 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






43. 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






44. A condition often identified as a result of multiple incidents that exhibit common symptoms. Problems can also be identified from a single significant incident for which the impact is significant.






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






46. (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






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






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






49. To measure organizational performance and effectiveness against strategic goals.






50. (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