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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






2. 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






3. 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.






4. 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.






5. Contains programs that communicate directly with the end user.






6. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






7. Support the functioning of the application controls






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






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






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






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






12. (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






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






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






15. 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






16. 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.






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






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






20. 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.






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






22. 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.






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






24. 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






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






26. External auditors are needed under these conditions: (1.) When the organization ________________________. (2.) Some regulations and standards require external - independent auditors






27. Who is responsible for imposing an IT governance model encompassing IT strategy - information security - and formal enterprise architectural mandates?






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






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






30. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






31. 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






32. 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






33. (1.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas






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






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






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






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






38. 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






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






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






41. (1.) Requirements (2.) Design (3.) Development (4.) Testing (5.) Release preparation (packaging) (6.) Release Deployment






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






43. A dynamically scalable and usually virtualized computing environment that is provided as a service. Clout computing services may be rented or leased so that an organization can have a scalable application without the need for supporting hardware.






44. A maturity model that represents the aggregations of other maturity models.






45. To determine effectiveness of a disaster recovery program - an IT auditor should examine _____________.






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






47. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






48. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






50. An auditor is examining a key management process and has found that the IT department is not following its split-custody procedure. As a result - Someone may be in possession of the _________________.