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📊 CISM

ISACA’s security-management standard — governance, risk, program, and incident management.

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// WHO IT’S FOR

Security professionals moving into management: people who will own the program, not just operate the tools.

// EXAM AT A GLANCE

150 questions · 4 hours · passing score 450 (scaled 200–800) · requires 5 years’ experience to certify

EXAM DOMAINS

17% Information Security Governance
governance vs management, alignment, appetite vs tolerance, KPI/KRI/KGI.
20% Information Security Risk Management
the risk lifecycle, SLE/ALE, the four responses, residual risk.
33% Information Security Program
program development, control types, third-party risk, metrics.
30% Incident Management
the IR lifecycle, BCP/DR (RTO/RPO/MTD), testing, forensics.

SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Three tasters — the real track has hundreds, graded, with full rationale.

Q1. Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD) relates to RTO and Work Recovery Time (WRT) how?
A. MTD = RTO + WRT
B. MTD = RTO − WRT
C. MTD = RPO + RTO
D. MTD = WRT only
reveal answer

A. MTD = RTO + WRT. The recovery-time objective (restore the system) plus the work-recovery time (validate and resume work) cannot exceed the maximum the business can tolerate.

Q2. Who should formally accept a residual risk that exceeds the security manager’s authority?
A. The security manager
B. The business/risk owner (senior management)
C. The external auditor
D. The help desk
reveal answer

B. Risk acceptance for material risk is a business decision owned by senior management / the risk owner. The security manager advises and recommends; they do not own the acceptance.

Q3. MTTD (mean time to detect) trending upward over successive quarters is best labelled a:
A. KPI
B. KRI
C. KGI
D. SLA
reveal answer

B. A point-in-time MTTD is a KPI (performance). A forward-looking, threshold-breaching trend is a Key Risk Indicator (KRI) — it signals rising risk.

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