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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






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






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






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






5. (1.) Authentication (2.) Authorization (3.) Change Management (4.) Completeness checks (5.) Validation checks (6.) Input controls (7.) Output controls (8.) Problem management (9.) Identification/access controls






6. During the development phase - Developers should only be performing Unit Testing - to verify that the individual sections of code they have written are performing properly.






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






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






9. 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






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






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






12. 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.






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






14. n audit strategy and plans that include: (1.) Scope (2.) Objectives (3.) Resources (4.) Procedures used to evaluation controls and processes






15. (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






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






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






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






19. 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






20. 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.






21. (1.) Hardware Complement (physical specifications) (2.) Hardware Configuration (firmware settings) (3.) Operating system version and configuration (4.) Software versions and configuration






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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.






30. The 5 types of risks that are related to audits include: (1.) Control Risk (2.) Detection Risk (3.) Inherent risk (4.) _____________ (5.) Sampling risk






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






32. 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?






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






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






35. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






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






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






39. 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.)






40. 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.






41. 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






42. 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.






43. 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






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






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






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






47. 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






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






50. 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 _________________.







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