ISACA CRISC Dumps Questions Updated [2022] Pass Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Exam

1. The PRIMARY objective for selecting risk response options is to:

2. An organization has procured a managed hosting service and just discovered the location is likely to be flooded every 20 years. Of the following, who should be notified of this new information FIRST.

3. IT management has asked for a consolidated view into the organization's risk profile to enable project prioritization and resource allocation .

Which of the following materials would be MOST helpful?

4. Which of the following is the MOST useful indicator to measure the efficiency of an identity and access management process?

5. A risk practitioner is assisting with the preparation of a report on the organization s disaster recovery (DR) capabilities .

Which information would have the MOST impact on the overall recovery profile?

6. Which of the following changes would be reflected in an organization's risk profile after the failure of a critical patch implementation?

7. Which of the following would be MOST important for a risk practitioner to provide to the internal audit department during the audit planning process?

8. The MAIN purpose of conducting a control self-assessment (CSA) is to:

9. Which of the following attributes of a key risk indicator (KRI) is MOST important?

10. A contract associated with a cloud service provider MUST include:

11. Who should be accountable for ensuring effective cybersecurity controls are established?

12. Which of the following is the BEST method to identify unnecessary controls?

13. Which of the following BEST describes the role of the IT risk profile in strategic IT-related decisions?

14. Which of the following should be the PRIMARY consideration when implementing controls for monitoring user activity logs?

15. Which of the following is the BEST method to ensure a terminated employee's access to IT systems is revoked upon departure from the organization?

16. Who is the MOST appropriate owner for newly identified IT risk?

17. Which of the following is the BEST indication of an improved risk-aware culture following the implementation of a security awareness training program for all employees?

18. Which of the following tools is MOST effective in identifying trends in the IT risk profile?

19. A risk practitioner has determined that a key control does not meet design expectations .

Which of the following should be done NEXT?

20. Which of the following is the FIRST step in managing the risk associated with the leakage of confidential data?

21. Which of the following is the PRIMARY reason to perform ongoing risk assessments?

22. Numerous media reports indicate a recently discovered technical vulnerability is being actively exploited .

Which of the following would be the BEST response to this scenario?

23. Which of the following BEST provides an early warning that network access of terminated employees is not being revoked in accordance with the service level agreement (SLA)?

24. A risk assessment has identified that departments have installed their own WiFi access points on the enterprise network .

Which of the following would be MOST important to include in a report to senior management?

25. Which of the following is the MOST important element of a successful risk awareness training program?

26. The number of tickets to rework application code has significantly exceeded the established threshold .

Which of the following would be the risk practitioner s BEST recommendation?

27. An effective control environment is BEST indicated by controls that:

28. Which of the following is the PRIMARY reason for a risk practitioner to use global standards related to risk management?

29. Which of the following helps ensure compliance with a nonrepudiation policy requirement for electronic transactions?

30. Establishing and organizational code of conduct is an example of which type of control?

31. Management has noticed storage costs have increased exponentially over the last 10 years because most users do not delete their emails .

Which of the following can BEST alleviate this issue while not sacrificing security?

32. Malware has recently affected an organization.

The MOST effective way to resolve this situation and define a comprehensive risk treatment plan would be to perform:

33. Calculation of the recovery time objective (RTO) is necessary to determine the:

34. During testing, a risk practitioner finds the IT department's recovery time objective (RTO) for a key system does not align with the enterprise's business continuity plan (BCP) .

Which of the following should be done NEXT?

35. Which of the following is the MOST important key performance indicator (KPI) to establish in the service level agreement (SLA) for an outsourced data center?

36. Which of the following is the MOST important factor affecting risk management in an organization?

37. A global organization is considering the acquisition of a competitor. Senior management has requested a review of the overall risk profile from the targeted organization .

Which of the following components of this review would provide the MOST useful information?

38. Which of the following should be the PRIMARY input when designing IT controls?

39. A rule-based data loss prevention {DLP) tool has recently been implemented to reduce the risk of sensitive data leakage .

Which of the following is MOST likely to change as a result of this implementation?

40. The PRIMARY objective of testing the effectiveness of a new control before implementation is to:

41. Which of the following is the MOST important benefit of key risk indicators (KRIs)'

42. Which of the following is the BEST way for a risk practitioner to help management prioritize risk response?

43. Which of the following would provide the BEST guidance when selecting an appropriate risk treatment plan?

44. A systems interruption has been traced to a personal USB device plugged into the corporate network by an IT employee who bypassed internal control procedures.

Of the following, who should be accountable?

45. A web-based service provider with a low risk appetite for system outages is reviewing its current risk profile for online security .

Which of the following observations would be MOST relevant to escalate to senior management?

46. Which of the following elements of a risk register is MOST likely to change as a result of change in management's risk appetite?

47. Which of the following would be a risk practitioners BEST recommendation for preventing cyber intrusion?

48. An organization wants to assess the maturity of its internal control environment.

The FIRST step should be to:

49. Which of the following roles would provide the MOST important input when identifying IT risk scenarios?

50. Which of the following risk register updates is MOST important for senior management to review?

51. Which of the following is the BEST method for assessing control effectiveness?

52. The MOST effective way to increase the likelihood that risk responses will be implemented is to:

53. During an IT risk scenario review session, business executives question why they have been assigned ownership of IT-related risk scenarios. They feel IT risk is technical in nature and therefore should be owned by IT .

Which of the following is the BEST way for the risk practitioner to address these concerns?

54. Which of the following would BEST help to ensure that identified risk is efficiently managed?

55. Which of the following is the FIRST step in managing the security risk associated with wearable technology in the workplace?

56. Which of the following is the BEST way to identify changes to the risk landscape?

57. In an organization with a mature risk management program, which of the following would provide the BEST evidence that the IT risk profile is up to date?

58. The PRIMARY benefit of maintaining an up-to-date risk register is that it helps to:

59. Which of the following is the BEST key performance indicator (KPI) to measure the maturity of an organization's security incident handling process?

60. Which of the following should be the risk practitioner s PRIMARY focus when determining whether controls are adequate to mitigate risk?

61. From a business perspective, which of the following is the MOST important objective of a disaster recovery test?

62. Which of the following is the PRIMARY factor in determining a recovery time objective (RTO)?

63. A risk assessment has identified that an organization may not be in compliance with industry regulations.

The BEST course of action would be to:

64. A risk practitioner is summarizing the results of a high-profile risk assessment sponsored by senior management.

The BEST way to support risk-based decisions by senior management would be to:

65. Which of the following is the BEST way to determine the ongoing efficiency of control processes?

66. An application owner has specified the acceptable downtime in the event of an incident to be much lower than the actual time required for the response team to recover the application .

Which of the following should be the NEXT course of action?

67. Which of the following is the MOST important consideration when sharing risk management updates with executive management?

68. Which of the following activities would BEST contribute to promoting an organization-wide risk-aware culture?

69. Which of the following would be MOST helpful when estimating the likelihood of negative events?

70. A risk practitioner is organizing risk awareness training for senior management .

Which of the following is the MOST important topic to cover in the training session?

71. An organization has identified a risk exposure due to weak technical controls in a newly implemented HR system.

The risk practitioner is documenting the risk in the risk register. The risk should be owned by the:

72. When using a third party to perform penetration testing, which of the following is the MOST important control to minimize operational impact?

73. Which of the following would MOST effectively enable a business operations manager to identify events exceeding risk thresholds?

74. The MOST important characteristic of an organization s policies is to reflect the organization's:

75. A risk heat map is MOST commonly used as part of an IT risk analysis to facilitate risk:

76. A trusted third party service provider has determined that the risk of a client's systems being hacked is low .

Which of the following would be the client's BEST course of action?

77. Which of the following is the BEST course of action to reduce risk impact?

78. Improvements in the design and implementation of a control will MOST likely result in an update to:

79. A risk practitioner observes that hardware failure incidents have been increasing over the last few months. However, due to built-in redundancy and fault-tolerant architecture, there have been no interruptions to business operations. The risk practitioner should conclude that:

80. A risk practitioner discovers several key documents detailing the design of a product currently in development have been posted on the Internet .

What should be the risk practitioner's FIRST course of action?

81. During the risk assessment of an organization that processes credit cards, a number of existing controls have been found to be ineffective and do not meet industry standards.

The overall control environment may still be effective if:

82. After a risk has been identified, who is in the BEST position to select the appropriate risk treatment option?

83. A data processing center operates in a jurisdiction where new regulations have significantly increased penalties for data breaches .

Which of the following elements of the risk register is MOST important to update to reflect this change?

84. Which of the following would BEST provide early warning of a high-risk condition?

85. What is the BEST information to present to business control owners when justifying costs related to controls?

86. Which of the following should be the PRIMARY consideration when assessing the automation of control monitoring?

87. An organization has determined a risk scenario is outside the defined risk tolerance level .

What should be the NEXT course of action?

88. A risk practitioner is organizing a training session lo communicate risk assessment methodologies to ensure a consistent risk view within the organization.

Which of the following i< the MOST important topic to cover in this training?

89. Which of the following will BEST help mitigate the risk associated with malicious functionality in outsourced application development?

90. Which of the following would be MOST useful when measuring the progress of a risk response action plan?

91. An unauthorized individual has socially engineered entry into an organization's secured physical premises .

Which of the following is the BEST way to prevent future occurrences?

92. The analysis of which of the following will BEST help validate whether suspicious network activity is malicious?

93. Which of the following is the MOST important outcome of reviewing the risk management process?

94. Which of the following is the BEST metric to demonstrate the effectiveness of an organization's change management process?

95. The PRIMARY advantage of implementing an IT risk management framework is the:

96. During a routine check, a system administrator identifies unusual activity indicating an intruder within a firewall .

Which of the following controls has MOST likely been compromised?

97. Which of the following will BEST mitigate the risk associated with IT and business misalignment?

98. Which of the following is the GREATEST benefit of incorporating IT risk scenarios into the corporate risk register?

99. An organization that has been the subject of multiple social engineering attacks is developing a risk awareness program.

The PRIMARY goal of this program should be to:

100. Which of the following is the MOST important consideration when multiple risk practitioners capture risk scenarios in a single risk register?