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Annex A controls
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ISO/IEC 27001 · 100 questions · 120 min · passing score 65%
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ISO 27001 questions are deliberately written so that three of four options are technically plausible. The exam tests whether you pick the best first action under process order. AnyCert trains that judgment — here’s the pattern.
An ISMS internal audit finds that access rights for a former contractor were not revoked until 11 days after the contract ended. What should the internal auditor do FIRST?
Record a nonconformity and recommend the control owner immediately revoke the access.
Sounds right — but auditors don’t ‘recommend’ remediation as step one. The trap is the word ‘first’.
Verify the facts with the control owner and determine whether the incident is isolated or systemic.
ISO 19011 expects auditors to verify evidence and establish scope before classification or reporting.
Raise a major nonconformity against Annex A control A.5.18 (Access rights).
The clause reference is correct — but classifying before verifying breaks the audit process.
Escalate the issue to top management as part of the management review.
Management review is an output of the ISMS cycle, not the first action on a finding.
The pattern
ISO 27001 exams force you to pick the BEST first action from four plausible ones. Three are technically related; only one respects process order. The bank drills this until it’s automatic.
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Question 47 · A.5 Organizational
An ISMS internal audit finds access rights for a former contractor were not revoked until 11 days after contract end. What should the internal auditor do FIRST?
Your answer: Recommend HR strengthen the offboarding checklist.
Correct: Raise a nonconformity in the audit report against A.5.16.
But isn’t strengthening the checklist also correct? It prevents this from happening again.
You’re not wrong about the fix — but the question asks what the auditor does first. The auditor’s job is to document the gap, not redesign the process. Order of operations: nonconformity first, recommendations second.
What’s A.5.16 again?
A.5.16 — Identity management. Requires the full lifecycle of identities to be managed: creation, modification, deletion. An 11-day delay in revocation is a textbook A.5.16 nonconformity.
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All 93 Annex A controls · A.5–A.8
Organizational (A.5 · 37 controls), People (A.6 · 8), Physical (A.7 · 14), Technological (A.8 · 34). Every control has at least one scenario question attached.
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