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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






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






3. 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.






4. (1.) Operational (2.) Financial (3.) Integrated (4.) IS (5.) Administrative (6.) Compliance (7.) Forensic (8.) Service Provider






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






6. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






7. (1.) MPLS (2.) SONET (3.) T-Carrier (4.) Frame Relay (5.) ISDN (6.) X.25






8. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






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






10. 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






11. 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.






12. 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.






13. (1.) Physical (2.) Technical (4.) Administrative






14. (1.) Feasibility (2.) Requirements (3.) Design (4.) Development (5.) Testing (6.) Implementation (7.) Post-implementation






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






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






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






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






19. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






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






22. 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






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






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






25. 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.






26. What three elements allow validation of business practices against acceptable measures of regulatory compliance - performance - and standard operational guidelines.






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






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






29. 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 _________________.






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






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






32. 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.






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






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






35. The risk that a material error exists that will not be prevented or detected by the organization's control framework - The possibility that a process or procedure will be unable to prevent or deter serious errors and wrongdoing.






36. Focuses on: maintaining service availability with the least disruption to standard operating parameters during an event






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






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






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






40. The primary source for test plans in a software development project is: ________________ that are developed for a project should be the primary source for detailed tests.






41. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine the numeric total of a specific attribute from the entire population.






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






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






45. 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






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






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






48. 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.)






49. The set of activities that is concerned with the ability of the organization to continue to provide services - primarily in the event that a natural or man made disaster has occurred.






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







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