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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. An organization has discovered that some of its employees have criminal records. The best course of action for the organization to take - The organization should have ___________________ on all of its existing employees and also begin instituting bac






2. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






3. (1.) Objectives (2.) Components (3.) Business Units / Areas






4. PERT: shows the ______________ critical path.






5. 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.






6. 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.






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






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






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






10. 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)






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






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






13. 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.






14. 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.)






15. Individual events may often create combined threats to enterprise operations: A tornado might also spawn ____________________.






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






17. Collections of Controls that work together to achieve an entire range of an organization's objectives.






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






19. (1.) IP (2.) ICMP (3.) RRC (Radio Resource Control) (4.) AppleTalk






20. n audit strategy and plans that include: (1.) Scope (2.) Objectives (3.) Resources (4.) Procedures used to evaluation controls and processes






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






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






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






24. Gantt: used to display ______________.






25. The main hardware component of a computer system - which executes instructions in computer programs.






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






27. 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






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






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






30. 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






31. The 5 types of risks that are related to audits include: (1.) Control Risk (2.) Detection Risk (3.) Inherent risk (4.) _____________ (5.) Sampling risk






32. 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.






33. (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






34. 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






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






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






37. Should include 4 steps: (1.) Emergency Approval (2.) Implementation (3.) Verification (4.) Review






38. 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.






39. An audit of operational efficiency.






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






41. 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.






42. 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






43. 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






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






45. An IS auditor is examining the IT standards document for an organization that was last reviewed two years earlier. The best course of action for the IS auditor is: Report that the ____________________________. Two years is far too long between revie






46. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






47. 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.






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






49. 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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50. 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.