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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.






2. 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.






3. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






4. 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






5. 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.






6. What three elements allow validation of business practices against acceptable measures of regulatory compliance - performance - and standard operational guidelines.






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






8. 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.






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






10. A sampling technique used to permit sampling to stop at the earliest possible time. This technique is used when the auditor feels that there is a low risk or low rate of exceptions in the population.






11. (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






12. (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






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






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






15. Gantt: used to display ______________.






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






17. 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?






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






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






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






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






22. 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






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






24. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.






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






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






27. 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






28. 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.






29. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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.)






41. 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?






42. 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.






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






44. 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.






45. 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.






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






47. What type of testing is performed to verify the accuracy and integrity of transactions as they flow through a system?






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






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






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







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