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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. An audit of an IS department's operations and systems.






2. IT Service Management is defined in ___________________ framework.






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






4. (1.) Financial (2.) Customer (3.) Internal processes (4.) Innovation / Learning






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






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






7. 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






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






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






10. (1.) Access Control (2.) Change Management (3.) Security Controls (4.) Incident Management (5.) SDLC (6.) Source code and versioning controls (7.) Monitoring and logging (8.) Event Management






11. The process to ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of all changes.






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






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






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






15. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






16. 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.






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






18. 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.






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






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






21. 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.






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






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






24. 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






25. 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






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






27. 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






28. The risk that an IS auditor will overlook errors or exceptions during an audit.






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






30. (1.) Reliable delivery (2.) Connection oriented (persistent connection) (3.) Order of Delivery (4.) Flow Control (transfer rate is throttled) (5.) Port Number






31. (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






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






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






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






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






37. 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.






38. 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 _________________.






39. The purpose of an auditor doing interviews - To observe personnel to better understand their discipline - as well as ______________.






40. Deliver messages from one station to another on the same network or on different networks. Messaging at this layer is not guaranteed.






41. 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?






42. 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






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






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






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






46. An audit of a third-party organization that provides services to other organizations.






47. To measure organizational performance and effectiveness against strategic goals.






48. A computation of the variance of sample values from the sample mean. This is a measurement of the spread of values in a sample






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






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