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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






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






3. Framework for auditing and measuring IT Service Management Processes.






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






5. 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.)






6. Used to control connections that are established between systems (1.) TCP (2.) IPC (3.) SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) (4.) RPC (Remote Procedure Call) (5.) NetBIOS






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






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






9. The IS auditor should conduct a risk assessment first to determine which areas have highest risk. She should devote more testing resources to those high-risk areas.






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






11. 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.






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






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






14. An IS auditor has discovered a high-risk exception during control testing. The best course of action for the IS auditor to take - The IS auditor should immediately ________________ when any high-risk situation is discovered.






15. Support the functioning of the application controls






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






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






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






19. 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.






20. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






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






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






24. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






25. 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






26. An auditor has detected potential fraud while testing a control objective - He should ___________________. Because Audit committee members are generally not involved in business operations - they will be sufficiently remove from the matter - and they






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






28. 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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29. 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.






30. Deliver messages from one station to another on the same network or on different networks. Messaging at this layer is not guaranteed.






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






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






33. (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






34. Used to estimate the effort required to develop a software program.






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






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






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






38. A database term - which means that the database will not permit a program (or user) to deleted rows from a table if there are records in other tables whose foreign keys reference the row to be deleted.






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






40. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.






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






42. 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.






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






44. (1.) IP (2.) ICMP (3.) RRC (Radio Resource Control) (4.) AppleTalk






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






46. ____________________ of the hot site is most important consideration for site selection. IF they are too close together then a single event may involve both locations






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






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






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






50. 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