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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






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






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






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






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






6. During the development phase - Developers should only be performing Unit Testing - to verify that the individual sections of code they have written are performing properly.






7. An estimate that expresses the percent of errors or exceptions that may exist in an entire population






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






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






10. The result of strategic planning - process development - and systems development - which all contribute towards a launch of business operations to reach a set of business objectives.






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






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






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






14. 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






15. 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






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






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






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






19. 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






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






21. 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.






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






23. An IS auditor is auditing the change management process for a financial application. The auditor has two primary pieces of evidence: change logs and a written analysis of the change logs performed by a business analyst. The change log is best because






24. 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.)






25. The IS auditor should conduct a risk assessment first to determine which areas have highest risk. She should devote more testing resources to those high-risk areas.






26. (1.) Monitoring (2.) Control Environment (3.) Risk Assessment and Control (4.) Information and Communication






27. 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.






28. 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.






29. Any event which is not part of the standard operation of service and which causes or may cause an interruption to or reduction in quality of that service. Includes THREE incident types: (1.) Service Outage (2.) Service Slowdown (3.) Software Bug






30. 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.






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






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. An organization experiences frequent malware infections on end-user workstations that are received through email - despite the tact that workstations have anti-virus software. To reducing malware - Implementing ________________ will provide an effect






35. Used to control connections that are established between systems (1.) TCP (2.) IPC (3.) SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) (4.) RPC (Remote Procedure Call) (5.) NetBIOS






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. The portion of IT management that tracks the financial value of IT services that support organizational objectives. It includes 4 activities: (1.) Budgeting (2.) Capital Investment (3.) Expense Management (4.) Project accounting and project ROI (Ret






43. 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?






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






45. A Fire sprinkler system has water in its pipes - and sprinkler heads emit water only if the ambient temperature reaches 220 deg. F. This is a ________________. The system is charged with water and will discharge water out of any sprinkler head whose






46. 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.






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






48. Concerned with electrical and physical specifications for devices. No frames or packets involved.






49. 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






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