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CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor Study Guide

By : Hemang Doshi
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CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor Study Guide

By: Hemang Doshi

Overview of this book

Are you looking to prepare for the CISA exam and understand the roles and responsibilities of an information systems (IS) auditor? The CISA - Certified Information Systems Auditor Study Guide is here to help you get started with CISA exam prep. This book covers all the five CISA domains in detail to help you pass the exam. You’ll start by getting up and running with the practical aspects of an information systems audit. The book then shows you how to govern and manage IT, before getting you up to speed with acquiring information systems. As you progress, you’ll gain knowledge of information systems operations and understand how to maintain business resilience, which will help you tackle various real-world business problems. Finally, you’ll be able to assist your organization in effectively protecting and controlling information systems with IT audit standards. By the end of this CISA book, you'll not only have covered the essential concepts and techniques you need to know to pass the CISA certification exam but also have the ability to apply them in the real world.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: Information System Auditing Process
4
Section 2: Governance and Management of IT
7
Section 3: Information Systems Acquisition, Development, and Implementation
10
Section 4: Information System Operations and Business Resilience
13
Section 5: Protection of Information Assets

Cloud computing

Cloud computing is the practice of using remote servers hosted on the internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. Cloud computing simply means the use of computing resources as a service through networks, typically the internet.

With cloud computing, users can access computing resources via the internet from anywhere, for as long as they need, without worrying about the maintenance or the management of actual resources.

The following are some of the characteristics of cloud computing:

  • It provides the capability for organizations to access the data or application from anywhere, anytime, and from almost any device.
  • It provides the capability for the organization to scale the IT resources as per the business requirements at the optimum cost.
  • It provides the capability to monitor, control, and report the usage of the resources.

Resources such as storage, processing power, memory, network bandwidth, and virtual machines...