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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






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






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






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






5. 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






6. 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






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






8. (1.) Link (2.) Internet (3.) Transport (4.) Application






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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






15. 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






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






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






18. A database term - which means that the database will not permit a program (or user) to deleted rows from a table if there are records in other tables whose foreign keys reference the row to be deleted.






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






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






21. Support the functioning of the application controls






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






23. 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






24. A technique that is used to select a portion of a population when it is not feasible to test an entire population.






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






26. A sampling technique where at least one exception is sought in a population






27. 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.






28. 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






29. The sum of all samples divided by the number of samples.






30. A critical application is backed up once per day. The recovery point objective (RPO) for an application that is backed up once per day cannot be ________.






31. 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






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






33. 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.






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






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






36. 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






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






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






39. 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.






40. Information is arranged in frames and transported across the medium. Collision detection. Checksum verification of delivery.






41. 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






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






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






44. 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






45. 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






46. 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






47. (1.) General (2.) Application






48. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






49. 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.)






50. The first major task in a disaster recovery or business continuity planning project.