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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. A programmer is updating an application that saves passwords in plaintext. In this case - Passwords should be stored in a _____. This makes it impossible for any person to retrieve a password - which could lead to account compromise.






2. 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.






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






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






5. 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






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






7. 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.






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






9. 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






10. (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






11. 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?






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






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






14. 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.






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






16. 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






17. A software developer has informed the project manager that a portion of the application development is going to take five additional days to complete. The project manager make a __________________ to document the reason for the change.






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






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






20. Used to translate or transform data from lower layers into formats that the application layer can work with.






21. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






22. 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






23. 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.






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






25. 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






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






27. 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






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






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






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






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






32. Used to estimate the effort required to develop a software program.






33. 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






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






35. Disasters are generally grouped in terms of type: ______________.






36. A computer uses RAM for several purposes: (1.) Operating System - to store info regarding running processes (2.) ____________ - that are used to temporarily store information retrieved from hard disks (3.) Storage of program code (4.) Storage of prog






37. 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






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






39. What activity involves the identification of potential risk and the appropriate response for each threat based on impact assessment using qualitative and/or quantitative measures for an enterprise-wide risk management strategy?






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






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






42. 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.)






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






44. (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






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






46. 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.






47. 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






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






50. 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