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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






2. n audit strategy and plans that include: (1.) Scope (2.) Objectives (3.) Resources (4.) Procedures used to evaluation controls and processes






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






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






5. Collections of Controls that work together to achieve an entire range of an organization's objectives.






6. 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.)






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






8. 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.






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






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. 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.






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






13. 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






14. 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






15. 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






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






17. The probability that a sample selected actually represents the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage.






18. (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






19. 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.






20. 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






21. 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






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






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






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






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






26. The process to ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of all changes.






27. 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






28. The annual expected loss to an asset. It is calculated as the single loss expectancy (SLE) X the annualized rate of occurrence (ARO.)






29. The delivery of messages from one station to another via one or more networks.. Routes packets between networks.






30. An active - instance of a server operating system running on a machine that is designed to house two or more such virtual servers.






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






32. 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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33. To communication security policies - procedures - and other security-related information to an organization's employees.






34. 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






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






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






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






38. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.






39. 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






40. A field in a record in one table that can reference a primary key in another table that can reference a primary key in another table.






41. 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?






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






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






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






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






46. 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 _________________.






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






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






49. The 5 types of risks that are related to audits include: (1.) Control Risk (2.) Detection Risk (3.) Inherent risk (4.) _____________ (5.) Sampling risk






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