After a significant security incident, the incident response team completes the recovery phase. The CISO wants to ensure that the organization learns from the incident. What is the MOST effective next step?

Conduct a post-incident review with all involved parties to identify lessons learned

Share the incident report with all employees to raise awareness

Update the incident response plan based on the team's memory of the incident

Close the incident ticket and move on to daily operations

What is the primary purpose of incident response within an organization's overall information security program?

To assign blame to individuals responsible for security breaches

To prevent all security incidents from occurring

To detect, respond to, and recover from security incidents in a structured manner

To replace the need for other security controls such as firewalls and antivirus

What is forensic readiness?

The preparation of an organization to effectively collect and preserve digital evidence

The process of analyzing evidence after an incident

The use of forensic tools during an incident

The ability to respond to incidents without collecting evidence

An incident response team is investigating a server that was compromised. The team has a forensic image of the server's hard drive and a memory dump. They need to determine if a specific file was accessed by the attacker. Which forensic tool or technique is most appropriate for this task?

A disk forensics tool that can parse the file system and recover file access times and metadata.

A network forensics tool that can analyze packet captures for file transfers.

A memory forensics tool that can list open files and processes.

A log analysis tool that can review system event logs for file access events.

What is the primary goal of network forensics?

To recover deleted files from a hard drive

To analyze database transactions

To analyze network traffic for signs of malicious activity

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Domain 4Objective 8

Computer Forensics and Incident Response CCISO Practice Questions (Page 9)

Part of the Information Security Core Competencies domain, which makes up ~33% of our current practice bank. EC-Council does not publish an official question count, but from its 150-minute exam (~60–100 total, ~20–33 in this domain), expect 3–4 from this objective — we provide 60 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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13 Concepts in This Objective

Incident Response Fundamentals
Incident Response Lifecycle
Incident Response Team Structure
Incident Classification and Prioritization
Incident Detection and Reporting
Containment, Eradication, and Recovery Strategies
Forensic Readiness
Digital Evidence Collection and Preservation
Forensic Analysis Techniques
Chain of Custody and Legal Considerations
Forensic Tools and Technologies
Reporting and Documentation
Post-Incident Activities and Lessons Learned

Questions 41–45

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After a significant security incident, the incident response team completes the recovery phase. The CISO wants to ensure that the organization learns from the incident. What is the MOST effective next step?
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What is forensic readiness?
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An incident response team is investigating a server that was compromised. The team has a forensic image of the server's hard drive and a memory dump. They need to determine if a specific file was accessed by the attacker. Which forensic tool or technique is most appropriate for this task?
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What is the primary goal of network forensics?
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