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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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






2. 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






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






4. 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






5. A sampling technique used to study the characteristics of a population to determine how many samples possess a specific characteristic.






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






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






8. (1.) Developers (2.) Architects (3.) Analysts (4.) Users






9. 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






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






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






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






13. 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






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






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






16. (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






17. 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.






18. The party that performs strategic planning - addresses near-term and long-term requirements aligning business objectives - and technology strategies.






19. 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.






20. 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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21. A sampling technique where items are chosen at random; each item has a statistically equal probability of being chosen.






22. 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.






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






24. A software developer has informed the project manager that a portion of the application development is going to take five additional days to complete. The project manager make a __________________ to document the reason for the change.






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






26. 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.






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






28. 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.






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






30. 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 _________________.






31. 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






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






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






34. Change Management includes a _____________ of six steps: (1.) Proposal or Request (2.) Review (3.) Approval (4.) Implementation (5.) Verification (6.) Post-change Review






35. 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.






36. 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






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






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






39. The means by which management establishes and measures processes by which organizational objectives are achieved






40. (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






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






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






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






44. 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






45. 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.






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






47. ____________________ of the hot site is most important consideration for site selection. IF they are too close together then a single event may involve both locations






48. Risk Mitigation Risk Avoidance Risk Transfer Risk Acceptance






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






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