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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






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






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






4. 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






5. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






7. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.






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






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






10. 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






11. A programmer is updating an application that saves passwords in plaintext. In this case - Passwords should be stored in a _____. This makes it impossible for any person to retrieve a password - which could lead to account compromise.






12. 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.






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






14. The CPU has: (1.) Arithmetic Logic Unit (2.) ______________ (3.) a small amount of memory (usually in to form of registers)






15. 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






16. 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






17. 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.






18. 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.






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






20. An audit that is performed in support of an anticipated or active legal proceeding.






21. (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






22. 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






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






24. 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.






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






26. 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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27. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Framework (3.) Reporting to External Parties (4.) Evaluation Tools






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






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






30. 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






31. (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






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. 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






34. The party that performs strategic planning - addresses near-term and long-term requirements aligning business objectives - and technology strategies.






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






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






43. 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.






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






45. 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






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






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






48. 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.






49. 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






50. The inventory of all in-scope business processes and systems