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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






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






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






4. 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






5. 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






6. To communication security policies - procedures - and other security-related information to an organization's employees.






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






8. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.






9. 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 ________.






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






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






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






13. An organization experiences frequent malware infections on end-user workstations that are received through email - despite the tact that workstations have anti-virus software. To reducing malware - Implementing ________________ will provide an effect






14. (1.) General (2.) Application






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






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






17. 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






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






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






20. Gantt: used to display ______________.






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






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






23. 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.






24. 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






25. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.






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






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






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






29. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient






30. 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






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






32. (1.) Feasibility (2.) Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation






33. (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






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






35. 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






36. 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.






37. A sampling technique where a population is divided into classes or strata - based upon the value of one of the attributes. Samples are then selected from each class.






38. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






39. 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






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






41. An auditor has discovered that several administrators in an application share an administrative account. The auditor should recommend that - Several __________________ should be used. This will enforce accountability for each administrator's actions.






42. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.






43. The risk that a material error exists that will not be prevented or detected by the organization's control framework - The possibility that a process or procedure will be unable to prevent or deter serious errors and wrongdoing.






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






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






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






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






48. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






49. An external IS auditor has discovered a _______________________ - The external auditor can only document the finding in the audit report. An external auditor is not in a position to implement controls.






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







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