ISACA CCOA Certification Sample Questions

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ISACA CCOA Sample Questions:

01. Overnight, an alert shows a service account writing encrypted files across a shared volume on the claims file server. The claims application reads the volume under a different account. The objectives register for the claims-processing service records that availability during the daily claims window takes precedence, with a documented tolerance for degraded but continuing processing and none for a full outage.
The claims window opens in forty minutes, and the response team has prepared several technically sound containment options.
Which containment action BEST serves the stated objective?
a) Power off the file server immediately and restore the shared volume from last night's backup before the claims window opens.
b) Disable the compromised service account and revoke its write access to the volume, leaving the read path in service.
c) Leave the server in service and watch the account's activity through the claims window, then contain once the window closes.
d) Block the service account at the domain and take the shared volume offline for imaging straight away.
 
The packaging line runs continuously and EWS-01 is required for the 06:00 shift changeover. Which containment action BEST reduces further risk within that constraint?
a) Block the historian's database port from the operator panels at the plant firewall, pending review.
b) Disconnect the engineering workstation from the plant network until the investigation is closed.
c) Disable the shared vendor account and remove the gateway rule permitting it to reach the workstation.
d) Power down the remote access gateway in the demilitarized zone so that no vendor session can be established at any plant.
 
03. After a second internet circuit is brought into service, some sessions to an externally hosted ordering service begin to fail. Analysts establish the following:
- Outbound SYN leaves through the circuit-A firewall, source 198.51.100.10
- Provider returns SYN-ACK to 198.51.100.10 through the circuit-B firewall
- circuit-B firewall log: DROP tcp 203.0.113.40:443 -> 198.51.100.10:51044 no matching session
Sessions that both leave and return over the same circuit complete normally. What is the root cause?
a) The routing is asymmetric, and a stateful firewall on the return path holds no session entry for a flow it never saw begin.
b) The second circuit applies a different source address, and the provider's replies are arriving for an address that this session never used at all.
c) The circuit-B firewall lacks the rule that permits inbound replies on 443, and an explicit policy entry is required.
d) The provider is acknowledging to the wrong port number, and the workstation discards the reply long before any firewall in the path sees it.
 
Two haulage customers remain integrated against the older interface until a contractual migration date next quarter. Which action BEST removes the exposure without breaking those customers?
a) Restrict the older route at the reverse proxy to the two customers' registered source addresses.
b) Remove the older route from the service and publish a migration notice to the affected customers.
c) Apply a rate limit to the older route to constrain unauthenticated use.
d) Require on the older route the same credential that the current route already enforces.
 
05. An analyst downloads an installer from a vendor's site and verifies it:
- Algorithm: SHA256 Hash: 9C1B...4AF2 Path: .\setup.exe
The download page publishes the SHA-256 value 3E77...B015 for that installer. The file's digital signature is present and validates against the vendor's certificate, and the file's build timestamp is two weeks later than the date shown on the download page.
Which conclusion does the combined evidence BEST support?
a) The vendor's signing certificate no longer matches the one the page names.
b) The installer corresponds to a later vendor build than the published checksum documents.
c) The tool used a different hash algorithm from the one that the page has published.
d) The installer was altered somewhere in transit between the vendor's site and the analyst's endpoint.
 
06. Two alerts are open and the analyst on shift has capacity for one of them now.
- A - 412 x Event ID 4625 in 6 minutes, account contractor-ro, disabled 2026-01-04, source VPN gateway
- B - 1 x Event ID 4624, Logon Type 10, account svc_sqlagent, target DC-02, first such logon on record
Which choice is BEST supported by the two alerts?
a) Work alert A first, because the failure rate shows a password-guessing run against the perimeter in progress.
b) Work alert A first, because authentication is still being attempted against a disabled account, which shows deprovisioning is leaving exposure behind.
c) Work alert B first, because a Logon Type 10 session to a domain controller bypasses the VPN gateway's logging and leaves no record of the session.
d) Work alert B first, because a service account has succeeded at a remote interactive logon to a domain controller for the first time.
 
Remediation is scheduled for 10:30 and will remove the inbox rule and the application grant. Which evidence should the team capture FIRST?
a) The contents of the RSS Subscriptions folder, including the supplier thread.
b) The mailbox audit and rule-change entries from the tenant for all twelve accounts.
c) A full disk image of the clerk's laptop, taken before the device is returned to service.
d) The forwarded sign-in records for the account, exported from the SOC's log platform.
 
08. The compliance register records that the enterprise's notification obligation to the supervisory authority runs from the point at which the privacy officer determines that a reportable breach of regulated personal data has occurred, and that the privacy officer alone makes and records that determination. The window for notifying is short.
From proxy logs and the database audit trail, an analyst has confirmed that roughly forty thousand customer records were copied to an external host. Establishing exactly which records were taken, and whether anything else left the estate, will take several days.
Which course of action is BEST?
a) Inform the privacy officer now with the confirmed evidence and continue the scoping in parallel.
b) Wait for legal counsel to confirm that the copied records fall within the regulated categories before reporting internally.
c) Complete the forensic scoping first so that the notification can name the exact records affected, then inform the privacy officer.
d) Notify the supervisory authority directly with the confirmed evidence and copy the privacy officer on the submission.
 
Management has ruled out taking the storefront offline before Monday morning, and the team must keep the uploaded file available for analysis.
Which action BEST limits the attacker's use of that file within those constraints?
a) Delete status.aspx from the uploads directory and restart the application pool.
b) Take both web servers out of the load balancer pool until the upload component has been patched and independently reviewed.
c) Copy the file and its directory metadata for analysis, then remove execute permission from the uploads directory.
d) Block the two observed source addresses at the web application firewall and keep monitoring.
 
10. A manufacturer's plant-floor control network shares one flat layer 2 domain with the corporate LAN. A historian on the corporate side must keep receiving process data from control devices that cannot be patched, cannot be restarted during production, and cannot take an agent. Production runs continuously and a maintenance window is available twice a year.
Which segmentation approach reduces exposure the MOST while preserving the stated data flow?
a) Place a collector in a screened subnet that the control devices push data to, and permit no corporate-initiated session inward.
b) Move the control devices behind an inline prevention sensor set to block, and keep the existing flat addressing in place.
c) Disconnect the control network from the corporate LAN entirely, and deliver the process data by scheduled manual export.
d) Install host firewalls on the control devices that admit only the historian's address, and leave the shared segment unchanged.

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Answer: b		 Question: 02
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Answer: b
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Answer: a

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