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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






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






3. 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






4. 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 ________.






5. 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.






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






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






8. 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






9. The result of strategic planning - process development - and systems development - which all contribute towards a launch of business operations to reach a set of business objectives.






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






11. An audit report usually includes the following 10 elements: (1.) Cover letter (2.) Introduction (3.) Summary (4.) Audit description (5.) _______________ (6.) Interviewees (7.) Evidence (8.) Explanation of sampling techniques (9.) Findings (10.) Recom






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






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






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






15. What type of testing is performed to determine if control procedures have proper design and are operating properly?






16. 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






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






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






19. 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






20. 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.






21. A computer uses RAM for several purposes: (1.) Operating System - to store info regarding running processes (2.) ____________ - that are used to temporarily store information retrieved from hard disks (3.) Storage of program code (4.) Storage of prog






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






23. A CMM helps an organization to _______________ - which is an important first step to any large-scale process improvement effort.






24. 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.






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






26. (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






27. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery






28. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






29. The highest number of errors that can exist without a result being materially misstated.






30. 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.






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






32. An audit of an accounting system - accounting department processes - and procedures to determine if business controls are sufficient to ensure the integrity of financial statements.






33. A large number of loosely coupled computers that are used to solve a common task may be in close proximity to each other or scattered over a large geographical area.






34. An auditor has reviewed access privileges of some employees and has discovered that employees with longer terms of service have excessive privileges. This means User privileges are not being removed from their old position when they transfer to a new






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






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






37. 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.






38. (1.) General (2.) Application






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






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






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






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






43. A sampling technique where items are chosen based upon the auditor's judgment - usually based on risk or materiality.






44. An audit of operational efficiency.






45. Support the functioning of the application controls






46. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine the numeric total of a specific attribute from the entire population.






47. 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






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






49. 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.






50. 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.







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