Month End Sale - Limited Time 70% Discount Offer - Ends in 0d 00h 00m 00s - Coupon code: xmaspas7

Easiest Solution 2 Pass Your Certification Exams

512-50 ECCouncil EC-Council Information Security Manager (E|ISM) Free Practice Exam Questions (2025 Updated)

Prepare effectively for your ECCouncil 512-50 EC-Council Information Security Manager (E|ISM) certification with our extensive collection of free, high-quality practice questions. Each question is designed to mirror the actual exam format and objectives, complete with comprehensive answers and detailed explanations. Our materials are regularly updated for 2025, ensuring you have the most current resources to build confidence and succeed on your first attempt.

Page: 2 / 7
Total 404 questions

Which of the following methods are used to define contractual obligations that force a vendor to meet customer expectations?

A.

Terms and Conditions

B.

Service Level Agreements (SLA)

C.

Statement of Work

D.

Key Performance Indicators (KPI)

Which of the following is considered a project versus a managed process?

A.

monitoring external and internal environment during incident response

B.

ongoing risk assessments of routine operations

C.

continuous vulnerability assessment and vulnerability repair

D.

installation of a new firewall system

An international organization is planning a project to implement encryption technologies to protect company confidential information. This organization has data centers on three continents. Which of the following would be considered a MAJOR constraint for the project?

A.

Time zone differences

B.

Compliance to local hiring laws

C.

Encryption import/export regulations

D.

Local customer privacy laws

Which of the following can the company implement in order to avoid this type of security issue in the future?

A.

Network based intrusion detection systems

B.

A security training program for developers

C.

A risk management process

D.

A audit management process

As the CISO for your company you are accountable for the protection of information resources commensurate with:

A.

Customer demand

B.

Cost and time to replace

C.

Insurability tables

D.

Risk of exposure

The company decides to release the application without remediating the high-risk vulnerabilities. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for the company to release the application?

A.

The company lacks a risk management process

B.

The company does not believe the security vulnerabilities to be real

C.

The company has a high risk tolerance

D.

The company lacks the tools to perform a vulnerability assessment

A CISO decides to analyze the IT infrastructure to ensure security solutions adhere to the concepts of how hardware and software is implemented and managed within the organization. Which of the following principles does this best demonstrate?

A.

Alignment with the business

B.

Effective use of existing technologies

C.

Leveraging existing implementations

D.

Proper budget management

You manage a newly created Security Operations Center (SOC), your team is being inundated with security alerts and don’t know what to do. What is the BEST approach to handle this situation?

A.

Tell the team to do their best and respond to each alert

B.

Tune the sensors to help reduce false positives so the team can react better

C.

Request additional resources to handle the workload

D.

Tell the team to only respond to the critical and high alerts

A severe security threat has been detected on your corporate network. As CISO you quickly assemble key members of the Information Technology team and business operations to determine a modification to security controls in response to the threat. This is an example of:

A.

Change management

B.

Business continuity planning

C.

Security Incident Response

D.

Thought leadership

When is an application security development project complete?

A.

When the application is retired.

B.

When the application turned over to production.

C.

When the application reaches the maintenance phase.

D.

After one year.

Which of the following will be MOST helpful for getting an Information Security project that is behind schedule back on schedule?

A.

Upper management support

B.

More frequent project milestone meetings

C.

More training of staff members

D.

Involve internal audit

Which of the following is the MOST effective way to measure the effectiveness of security controls on a perimeter network?

A.

Perform a vulnerability scan of the network

B.

External penetration testing by a qualified third party

C.

Internal Firewall ruleset reviews

D.

Implement network intrusion prevention systems

Which of the following tests is an IS auditor performing when a sample of programs is selected to determine if the source and object versions are the same?

A.

A substantive test of program library controls

B.

A compliance test of program library controls

C.

A compliance test of the program compiler controls

D.

A substantive test of the program compiler controls

When a CISO considers delaying or not remediating system vulnerabilities which of the following are MOST important to take into account?

A.

Threat Level, Risk of Compromise, and Consequences of Compromise

B.

Risk Avoidance, Threat Level, and Consequences of Compromise

C.

Risk Transfer, Reputational Impact, and Consequences of Compromise

D.

Reputational Impact, Financial Impact, and Risk of Compromise

You are the Chief Information Security Officer of a large, multinational bank and you suspect there is a flaw in a two factor authentication token management process. Which of the following represents your BEST course of action?

A.

Validate that security awareness program content includes information about the potential vulnerability

B.

Conduct a thorough risk assessment against the current implementation to determine system functions

C.

Determine program ownership to implement compensating controls

D.

Send a report to executive peers and business unit owners detailing your suspicions

Which of the following activities must be completed BEFORE you can calculate risk?

A.

Determining the likelihood that vulnerable systems will be attacked by specific threats

B.

Calculating the risks to which assets are exposed in their current setting

C.

Assigning a value to each information asset

D.

Assessing the relative risk facing the organization’s information assets

Which of the following are necessary to formulate responses to external audit findings?

A.

Internal Audit, Management, and Technical Staff

B.

Internal Audit, Budget Authority, Management

C.

Technical Staff, Budget Authority, Management

D.

Technical Staff, Internal Audit, Budget Authority

Which International Organization for Standardization (ISO) below BEST describes the performance of risk management, and includes a five-stage risk management methodology.

A.

ISO 27001

B.

ISO 27002

C.

ISO 27004

D.

ISO 27005

An IT auditor has recently discovered that because of a shortage of skilled operations personnel, the security administrator has agreed to work one late night shift a week as the senior computer operator. The most appropriate course of action for the IT auditor is to:

A.

Inform senior management of the risk involved.

B.

Agree to work with the security officer on these shifts as a form of preventative control.

C.

Develop a computer assisted audit technique to detect instances of abuses of the arrangement.

D.

Review the system log for each of the late night shifts to determine whether any irregular actions occurred.

The risk found after a control has been fully implemented is called:

A.

Residual Risk

B.

Total Risk

C.

Post implementation risk

D.

Transferred risk

Page: 2 / 7
Total 404 questions
Copyright © 2014-2025 Solution2Pass. All Rights Reserved