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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






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






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






4. During an audit - the auditor should obtain 6 types of documents - (1.) Org charts (2.) ___________ (3.) third-party contracts (4.) policies and procedures (5.) standards (6.) system documentation






5. 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.






6. Handle application processing






7. 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






8. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






10. (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






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






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






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






14. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - as the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient.






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






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






17. (1.) Physical (2.) Technical (4.) Administrative






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






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






20. 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






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






22. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.






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






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






25. An auditor has discovered several errors in user account management: many terminated employees' computer accounts are still active. The best course of action - To improve the _________________ to reduce the number of exceptions. For a time - the proc






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






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






28. 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.






29. A sampling technique where a population is divided into classes or strata - based upon the value of one of the attributes. Samples are then selected from each class.






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






31. A quantitative risk analysis is __________________ because: It is difficult to get accurate figures on the frequency of specific threats. It is difficult to determine the probability that a threat will be realized. It is relatively easy to determine






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






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






34. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






36. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.






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






38. Lowest layer. Delivers messages (frames) from one station to another vial local network.






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






40. 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






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






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






43. 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






44. In Release Management - _________________ means that each step of the release process undergoes formal review and approval before the next step is allowed to begin.






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






46. An IS auditor needs to perform an audit of a financial system and needs to trace individual transactions through the system. What type of testing should the auditor perform?






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






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






49. 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.






50. 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.







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