EC-Council 712-50 Practice Exams
Last updated on Oct 22,2026- Exam Code: 712-50
- Exam Name: EC-Council Certified CISO (CCISO)
- Certification Provider: EC-Council
- Latest update: Oct 22,2026
When information security falls under the Chief Information Officer (CIO), what is their MOST essential role?
- A . Oversees the organization’s day-to-day operations, creating the policies and strategies that govern operations
- B . Enlisting support from key executives the information security program budget and policies
- C . Charged with developing and implementing policies designed to protect employees and customers’ data from unauthorized access
- D . Responsible for the success or failure of the IT organization and setting strategic direction
An employee successfully avoids becoming a victim of a sophisticated spear phishing attack due to knowledge gained through the corporate information security awareness program.
What type of control has been effectively utilized?
- A . Management Control
- B . Technical Control
- C . Training Control
- D . Operational Control
Network Forensics is the prerequisite for any successful legal action after attacks on your Enterprise Network.
Which is the single most important factor to introducing digital evidence into a court of law?
- A . Comprehensive Log-Files from all servers and network devices affected during the attack
- B . Fully trained network forensic experts to analyze all data right after the attack
- C . Uninterrupted Chain of Custody
- D . Expert forensics witness
The CIO of an organization has decided to assign the responsibility of internal IT audit to the IT team. This is consider a bad practice MAINLY because
- A . The IT team is not familiar in IT audit practices
- B . This represents a bad implementation of the Least Privilege principle
- C . This represents a conflict of interest
- D . The IT team is not certified to perform audits
When an organization claims it is secure because it is PCI-DSS certified, what is a good first question to ask towards assessing the effectiveness of their security program?
- A . How many credit card records are stored?
- B . How many servers do you have?
- C . What is the scope of the certification?
- D . What is the value of the assets at risk?
One of the MAIN goals of a Business Continuity Plan is to
- A . Ensure all infrastructure and applications are available in the event of a disaster
- B . Allow all technical first-responders to understand their roles in the event of a disaster
- C . Provide step by step plans to recover business processes in the event of a disaster
- D . Assign responsibilities to the technical teams responsible for the recovery of all data.
What is the MOST critical output of the incident response process?
- A . A complete document of all involved team members and the support they provided
- B . Recovery of all data from affected systems
- C . Lessons learned from the incident, so they can be incorporated into the incident response processes
- D . Clearly defined documents detailing standard evidence collection and preservation processes
What is the MOST critical output of the incident response process?
- A . A complete document of all involved team members and the support they provided
- B . Recovery of all data from affected systems
- C . Lessons learned from the incident, so they can be incorporated into the incident response processes
- D . Clearly defined documents detailing standard evidence collection and preservation processes
In MOST organizations which group periodically reviews network intrusion detection system logs for all systems as part of their daily tasks?
- A . Internal Audit
- B . Database Administration
- C . Information Security
- D . Compliance
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?
- A . Response
- B . Investigation
- C . Recovery
- D . Follow-up