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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






2. An audit of operational efficiency.






3. 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






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






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






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






7. The primary source for test plans in a software development project is: ________________ that are developed for a project should be the primary source for detailed tests.






8. 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.






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






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






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






12. A facility that is used to store and manage access to an organization's application source and object code. It consists of 5 parts: (1.) Access and authorization controls (2.) Program checkout (3.) Program Check-in (4.) Version Control (5.) Code Ana






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






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






15. (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






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






17. 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.






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






19. 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






20. Support the functioning of the application controls






21. 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






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






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






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






25. 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






26. Used to measure the relative maturity of an organization and its processes.






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






28. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






34. Subjective sampling is used when the auditor wants to _________________________.






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






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






37. An audit to determine the level and degree of compliance to a law - regulation - standard - contract provision - or internal control.






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






39. 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.






40. 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.






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






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






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






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






45. 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






46. The IS auditor should act as a SME in the control self-assessment - but should not play a major role in the process.






47. 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.






48. When several incidents have occurred that appear to have the same or a similar root cause - a PROBLEM is occurring.






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






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







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