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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






3. 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






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






5. 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.






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






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






8. To ensure that input values are within established ranges - of the correct character types - and free of harmful contents.






9. 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.






10. 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






11. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






12. 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)






13. 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.






14. (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






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






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






17. Handle application processing






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






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






20. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






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






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






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






25. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






27. 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.






28. 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






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






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






31. 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.






32. 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?






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






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






35. 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.






36. Support the functioning of the application controls






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. The process of recording the configuration of IT systems. Each configuration setting is known in ITSM parlance as a Configuration Item.






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






48. An organization is building a data center in an area frequented by power outages. The organization cannot tolerate power outages. The best _________________solution is an electric generator and an uninterruptible power supply. The UPS responds to the






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






50. Governed by: (1.) Effective Change Management (2.) Effective Application Testing (3.) Resilient Architecture (4.) Serviceable Components