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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






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






3. 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.






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






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






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






8. An auditor has detected potential fraud while testing a control objective - He should ___________________. Because Audit committee members are generally not involved in business operations - they will be sufficiently remove from the matter - and they






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






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






11. 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.






12. 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






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






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






17. 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






18. 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.






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






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






21. An organization experiences frequent malware infections on end-user workstations that are received through email - despite the tact that workstations have anti-virus software. To reducing malware - Implementing ________________ will provide an effect






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






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






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






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






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






27. (1.) Utility (DNS - SNMP - DHCP (2.) Messaging protocols (SMTP) (3.) Data Transfer protocols (NFS - FTP) (4.) Interactive protocols (Telnet)






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






29. Delivery of packets from one station to another - on the same network or on different networks.






30. 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






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






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






33. 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






34. (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






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






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






37. The result of strategic planning - process development - and systems development - which all contribute towards a launch of business operations to reach a set of business objectives.






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






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






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






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






42. An organization wants to reduce the number of user IDs and passwords that its employees need to remember. The best available solution to this - _______________. This provides a single authentication service (such as LDAP or AD) that many applications






43. Defines internal controls and provides guidance for assessing and improving internal control systems.






44. 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






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






46. (1.) Access controls (2.) Encryption (3.) Audit logging






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






48. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






49. 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.






50. An audit report usually includes the following 10 elements: (1.) Cover letter (2.) Introduction (3.) Summary (4.) Audit description (5.) _______________ (6.) Interviewees (7.) Evidence (8.) Explanation of sampling techniques (9.) Findings (10.) Recom







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