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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. 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






2. 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.






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. 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






5. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.






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






7. 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.






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






9. (1.) Reliable delivery (2.) Connection oriented (persistent connection) (3.) Order of Delivery (4.) Flow Control (transfer rate is throttled) (5.) Port Number






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






11. A representation of how closely a sample represents an entire population.






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






13. 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.






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






15. 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






16. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act






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






18. 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.






19. 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.






20. Used to schedule and sequence activities in a waterfall-type representation. Planned activities are shown flowing downward to completion. More simplistic than a PERT Diagram.






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






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






23. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records






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






25. Should include 4 steps: (1.) Emergency Approval (2.) Implementation (3.) Verification (4.) Review






26. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






27. Requires that a password be broken into two or more parts - with each part in the possession of a separate person.






28. 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.






29. Handle application processing






30. 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.






31. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






32. (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






33. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






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






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






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






37. A collection of two or more servers that is designed to appear as a single server.






38. 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.






39. 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.






40. Used to illustrate the relationship between planned activities. PERT diagrams show multiple routes through the project activities - as necessary for accomplishing a goal.






41. 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.






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






43. (1.) MPLS (2.) SONET (3.) T-Carrier (4.) Frame Relay (5.) ISDN (6.) X.25






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






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






46. 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.






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






48. 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)






49. Information is arranged in frames and transported across the medium. Collision detection. Checksum verification of delivery.






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






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