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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






2. An IS auditor has discovered a high-risk exception during control testing. The best course of action for the IS auditor to take - The IS auditor should immediately ________________ when any high-risk situation is discovered.






3. 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






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






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






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






7. (1.) Access controls (2.) Encryption (3.) Audit logging






8. 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.






9. 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






10. 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






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






12. Used to schedule and sequence activities in a waterfall-type representation. Planned activities are shown flowing downward to completion. More simplistic than a PERT Diagram.






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






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






15. An audit of operational efficiency.






16. 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?






17. 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.






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






19. (1.) Developers (2.) Architects (3.) Analysts (4.) Users






20. 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






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






22. 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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23. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment






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






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






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






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






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






29. Delivery of packets from one station to another - on the same network or on different networks.






30. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.






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






32. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning






33. 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.






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 active - instance of a server operating system running on a machine that is designed to house two or more such virtual servers.






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






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






38. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






39. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Framework (3.) Reporting to External Parties (4.) Evaluation Tools






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






41. A technique that is used to identify the most critical path in a project to understand which tasks are most likely to affect the project schedule.






42. 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






43. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






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






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






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






48. 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.






49. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






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