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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. 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






2. External auditors are needed under these conditions: (1.) When the organization ________________________. (2.) Some regulations and standards require external - independent auditors






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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






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






10. 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






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






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






13. 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






14. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider






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






16. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






17. 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.






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






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






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






21. 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






22. Guide program execution through organization of resources and development of clear project objectives.






23. An auditor is examining a key management process and has found that the IT department is not following its split-custody procedure. As a result - Someone may be in possession of the _________________.






24. 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






25. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






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






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






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






30. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.






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






32. (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






33. An organization is building a data center in an area frequented by power outages. The organization cannot tolerate power outages. The best _________________solution is an electric generator and an uninterruptible power supply. The UPS responds to the






34. 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






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






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






37. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.






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






39. 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.






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






41. Gantt: used to display ______________.






42. 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?






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






44. 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.






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






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






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






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






49. 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






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