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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. Application controls limit ___________ in three ways: (1.) Point of Entry (Input Controls) (2.) During consumption (process controls) (3.) At the point of expression (Output Controls)






2. Gantt: used to display ______________.






3. 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.






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






5. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






6. 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.






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






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






9. 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?






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






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 auditor has discovered that several administrators in an application share an administrative account. The auditor should recommend that - Several __________________ should be used. This will enforce accountability for each administrator's actions.






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






14. A sampling technique where a population is divided into classes or strata - based upon the value of one of the attributes. Samples are then selected from each class.






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






16. 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.






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






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






19. (1.) Automatic (2.) Manual






20. A four-step quality control process known as PDSA - or PDCA. Steps: (1.) Plan (2.) Do (3.) Study (4.) Act






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






22. 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






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






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






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






26. 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






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






28. (1.) Executive Summary (2.) Framework (3.) Reporting to External Parties (4.) Evaluation Tools






29. 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?






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






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






32. 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.






33. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






34. 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.)






35. 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.






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






37. 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






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






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






40. (1.) Observations (2.) Written Notes (3.) Correspondence (4.) Process and Procedure documentation (5.) Business records






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






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






43. 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.






44. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






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






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






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






48. What type of testing is performed to determine if control procedures have proper design and are operating properly?






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






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







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