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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






2. An IS auditor is auditing the change management process for a financial application. The auditor has two primary pieces of evidence: change logs and a written analysis of the change logs performed by a business analyst. The change log is best because






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






4. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






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






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






8. (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






9. 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






10. 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.






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






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






13. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance






14. 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






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






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






17. 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






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






19. 0. No process at all (1.) Process are ad hoc and disorganized (2.) Consistent processes (3.) Documented processes (4.) Measured and managed processes (5.) Processes are continuously improved






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






21. A dynamically scalable and usually virtualized computing environment that is provided as a service. Clout computing services may be rented or leased so that an organization can have a scalable application without the need for supporting hardware.






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






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






24. 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






25. Support the functioning of the application controls






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






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






28. Consists of main chassis component that is equipped with slots are fitted with individual cpu modules. Main advantage is lower cost per unit.






29. The memory locations in the CPU where arithmetic values are stored.






30. 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.






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






32. 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.






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






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






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






37. The means by which management establishes and measures processes by which organizational objectives are achieved






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






39. 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.






40. Application controls limit ___________ in three ways: (1.) Point of Entry (Input Controls) (2.) During consumption (process controls) (3.) At the point of expression (Output Controls)






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






42. Handle application processing






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






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






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






46. 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






47. 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.






48. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






49. 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 _________________.






50. The set of activities that is concerned with the ability of the organization to continue to provide services - primarily in the event that a natural or man made disaster has occurred.