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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






2. What activity involves the identification of potential risk and the appropriate response for each threat based on impact assessment using qualitative and/or quantitative measures for an enterprise-wide risk management strategy?






3. 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






4. Handle application processing






5. (1.) MPLS (2.) SONET (3.) T-Carrier (4.) Frame Relay (5.) ISDN (6.) X.25






6. The risk that there are material weaknesses in existing business processes and no compensating controls to detect or prevent them






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






8. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






9. 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.






10. 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






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






12. Describes the effect on the business if a process is incapacitated for any appreciable time






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






14. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






16. A representation of how closely a sample represents an entire population.






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






22. A sampling technique where at least one exception is sought in a population






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






24. Used for several types of system changes: (1.) Incidents and problem resolution (bug fixes.) (2.) Enhancements (new functionality.) (3.) Subsystem patches and changes (require testing similar to when changes are made to the application itself.)






25. Outsourcing is an opportunity for the organization to focus on core competencies. When an organization oursources a business function - it no longer needs to be concerned about training employees in that function. Outsources does not always reduce co






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






27. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






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






29. (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






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






31. 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.






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






33. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.






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






35. 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






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






37. To review and approve proposed changes to systems and infrastructure. This helps to reduce the risk of unintended events and unplanned downtime.






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






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






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






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






44. (1.) Feasibility Study (2.) Definition of Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation phase






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






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






47. 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






48. (1.) General (2.) Application






49. 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






50. 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.