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

Which of the following would negatively impact a log analysis of a multinational organization?

SCENARIO: Critical servers show signs of erratic behavior within your organization’s intranet. Initial information indicates the systems are under attack from an outside entity. As the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), you decide to deploy the Incident Response Team (IRT) to determine the details of this incident and take action according to the information available to the team.

In what phase of the response will the team extract information from the affected systems without altering original data?

What are the primary reasons for the development of a business case for a security project?

Scenario: Your organization employs single sign-on (user name and password only) as a convenience to your employees to access organizational systems and data. Permission to individual systems and databases is vetted and approved through supervisors and data owners to ensure that only approved personnel can use particular applications or retrieve information. All employees have access to their own human resource information, including the ability to change their bank routing and account information and other personal details through the Employee Self-Service application. All employees have access to the organizational VPN.

The organization wants a more permanent solution to the threat to user credential compromise through phishing. What technical solution would BEST address this issue?

Scenario: You are the CISO and have just completed your first risk assessment for your organization. You find many risks with no security controls, and some risks with inadequate controls. You assign work to your staff to create or adjust existing security controls to ensure they are adequate for risk mitigation needs.

When formulating the remediation plan, what is a required input?

As the Business Continuity Coordinator of a financial services organization, you are responsible for ensuring assets are recovered timely in the event of a disaster. Which is the BEST Disaster Recovery performance indicator to validate that you are prepared for a disaster?

SCENARIO: A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) recently had a third party conduct an audit of the security program. Internal policies and international standards were used as audit baselines. The audit report was presented to the CISO and a variety of high, medium and low rated gaps were identified.

Which of the following is the FIRST action the CISO will perform after receiving the audit report?

When updating the security strategic planning document what two items must be included?

At what level of governance are individual projects monitored and managed?

Bob waits near a secured door, holding a box. He waits until an employee walks up to the secured door and

uses the special card in order to access the restricted area of the target company. Just as the employee opens

the door, Bob walks up to the employee (still holding the box) and asks the employee to hold the door open so

that he can enter. What is the best way to undermine the social engineering activity of tailgating?

Which of the following is a common technology for visual monitoring?

The new CISO was informed of all the Information Security projects that the organization has in progress. Two projects are over a year behind schedule and over budget. Using best business practices for project management you determine that the project correctly aligns with the company goals.

Which of the following needs to be performed NEXT?

As the Chief Information Security Officer, you want to ensure data shared securely, especially when shared with

third parties outside the organization. What protocol provides the ability to extend the network perimeter with

the use of encapsulation and encryption?

Which of the following best describes an access control process that confirms the identity of the entity seeking access to a logical or physical area?

Scenario: An organization has made a decision to address Information Security formally and consistently by adopting established best practices and industry standards. The organization is a small retail merchant but it is expected to grow to a global customer base of many millions of customers in just a few years.

Which of the following frameworks and standards will BEST fit the organization as a baseline for their security program?

The newly appointed CISO of an organization is reviewing the IT security strategic plan. Which of the following is the MOST important component of the strategic plan?

The total cost of security controls should:

Which of the following is a primary method of applying consistent configurations to IT systems?

Scenario: An organization has recently appointed a CISO. This is a new role in the organization and it signals the increasing need to address security consistently at the enterprise level. This new CISO, while confident with skills and experience, is constantly on the defensive and is unable to advance the IT security centric agenda.

Which of the following is the reason the CISO has not been able to advance the security agenda in this organization?