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CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

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1. 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






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






3. 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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4. The probability that a sample selected does not represent the entire population. This is usually expressed as a percentage - as the numeric inverse of the confidence coefficient.






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






6. 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.)






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






8. Used to measure the relative maturity of an organization and its processes.






9. (1.) Avoidance (2.) Transfer (3.) Mitigation (4.) Acceptance






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






11. What activity involves the identification of potential risk and the appropriate response for each threat based on impact assessment using qualitative and/or quantitative measures for an enterprise-wide risk management strategy?






12. ITIL term used to describe the SDLC.






13. 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.






14. 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






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






16. 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






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. 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






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. 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.






21. 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.






22. An audit of IS controls - security controls - or business controls to determine control existence and effectiveness.






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






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






25. 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 ________.






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






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






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






29. Aids in the coordinating of business processes using a sequence of three events -(1.) Business process creation (2.) Implementation (3.) Maintenance 3a. Benchmarking: Facilitates continuous improvement within the BPLC






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






31. An auditor has discovered that several administrators in an application share an administrative account. The auditor should recommend that - Several __________________ should be used. This will enforce accountability for each administrator's actions.






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






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






34. 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






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






36. Use of a set of monitoring and review activities that confirm whether IS operations is providing service to its customers.






37. The process of recording the configuration of IT systems. Each configuration setting is known in ITSM parlance as a Configuration Item.






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






39. Subjective sampling is used when the auditor wants to _________________________.






40. 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.






41. 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






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






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






44. Concerns the reliability of data transfer between systems. (1.) Connection Oriented (2.) Guaranteed Delivery (3.) Order of Delivery






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






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






47. A technique that is used to identify the most critical path in a project to understand which tasks are most likely to affect the project schedule.






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






49. 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






50. 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