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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






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






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






4. Consists of two main packet transport protocols: TCP and UDP.






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






6. Outsourcing is an opportunity for the organization to focus on core competencies. When an organization oursources a business function - it no longer needs to be concerned about training employees in that function. Outsources does not always reduce co






7. 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






8. 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.






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






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






11. 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






12. (1.) Statistical (2.) Judgmental (3.) Attribute (4.) Variable (5.) Stop-or-Go (6.) Discovery (7.) Stratified






13. A programmer is updating an application that saves passwords in plaintext. In this case - Passwords should be stored in a _____. This makes it impossible for any person to retrieve a password - which could lead to account compromise.






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






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






16. Support the functioning of the application controls






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






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






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






20. 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






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






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






23. 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.






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






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






26. 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.






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






28. 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






29. Consists of 11 distinct activities: (1.) Service Desk (2.) Incident Management (3.) Problem Management (4.) Change Management (5.) Configuration Management (6.) Release Management (7.) Service-level Management (8.) Financial Management (9.) Capacity






30. 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






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






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






33. A large number of loosely coupled computers that are used to solve a common task may be in close proximity to each other or scattered over a large geographical area.






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






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






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






37. (1.) TCP (2.) UDP






38. A sampling technique where at least one exception is sought in a population






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






40. Handle application processing






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






42. IT Governance is most concerned with ________.






43. 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






44. 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






45. A critical application is backed up once per day. The recovery point objective (RPO) for an application that is backed up once per day cannot be ________.






46. 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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47. 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.






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






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






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