ISO 27001 LA ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Management Systems Lead Auditor Practice Questions — 10 Free (2026)

What must happen to the readiness of information and communication technology for continuity?

• A. It must be documented and approved
• B. It must be outsourced and monitored
• C. It must be planned, implemented, maintained and tested ✓
• D. It must be certified and reviewed
• E. It must be agreed with the providers on which the organisation depends for the technology concerned

The continuity objectives, and the requirements for continuity of that technology, are its footing. ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor - ISO standards and course material, ISO27001.ISMS

What does the standard say knowledge of the organisation and its context enables an auditor to do?

• A. Predict the auditee's financial results
• B. Judge whether the auditee should be certified whatever either of the parties may prefer
• C. Advise the auditee on strategy
• D. Understand how the auditee is structured, what it is for, and how it is managed ✓
• E. Assess the auditee's market position

It reaches what concerned parties need and look for where that touches the system; what kind of body it is, how it is governed, how big, how arranged, what it does and whom it deals with; ordinary ideas and vocabulary of business and management, planning, budgets and handling staff among them; and the auditee's culture and society. ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor - ISO standards and course material, ISO.LA.CORE

What must be considered in establishing the internal audit programme?

• A. The availability of auditors
• B. The cost of each audit
• C. The certification body's own audit dates
• D. How important the processes concerned are, and what earlier audits found ✓
• E. The number of findings the organisation expects the programme to raise over the period it covers

Two considerations only, where the environmental standard adds changes affecting the organisation. ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor - ISO standards and course material, ISO27001.ISMS

What does the standard require where multi-site sampling is used?

• A. That every site be visited at least once in each cycle
• B. That the client select the sites to be visited
• C. That a sampling programme be developed ✓
• D. That no more than half the sites be sampled
• E. That the accreditation body sign the plan off before the team sets foot on any site the certification covers

Sampling has no place where the sites do not cover the same activity, and some schemes shut it out altogether. ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor - ISO standards and course material, ISO.LA.CORE

What does the guidance say can cross organisational and national boundaries?

• A. Information security incidents ✓
• B. Controls in the ordinary course of things
• C. Policies
• D. Audits
• E. Records

Coordinating the response, and sharing information with outside organisations as suits, is what it recommends. ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor - ISO standards and course material, ISO27001.ISMS

What does the standard require where the contents of an audit document must be disclosed, for instance because the law demands it?

• A. That the disclosure is refused
• B. That the certification body handles it whatever either of the parties may prefer
• C. That the audit client and the auditee are informed as soon as possible ✓
• D. That the document is redacted first
• E. That the team leader decides alone

Lessons drawn from the audit can point to risks and opportunities for the programme and for the auditee. ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor - ISO standards and course material, ISO.LA.CORE

Which step forms part of weighing whether action is needed on the causes of a nonconformity?

• A. Suspending the process
• B. Setting an objective
• C. Reviewing the nonconformity ✓
• D. Notifying interested parties
• E. Establishing whether the matter bears on a requirement of the document or on one the organisation set itself

Determining the causes, and asking whether similar failures exist or could arise, complete the same limb. ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor - ISO standards and course material, ISO27001.ISMS

What does 8.1 require where a process, a product or a service comes in from outside and bears on the ISMS?

• A. That they be brought in-house
• B. That the provider hold certification
• C. That they be excluded from the scope
• D. That the organisation ensure they are controlled ✓
• E. That they be audited annually by the organisation itself or by somebody acting on its behalf

The environmental standard speaks of control or influence; this one speaks of control alone. ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor - ISO standards and course material, ISO27001.ISMS

How can a run of minor nonconformities come to be treated as a major one?

• A. Where several of them attach to the same requirement or the same issue, and together point to a failure running through the system ✓
• B. By exceeding a threshold of ten in any one audit
• C. By remaining open past the closing meeting
• D. By being raised at more than one site
• E. By being raised in successive years by different members of the audit team, whatever the requirement each of them may happen to have been looking at when they did so

A minor nonconformity on its own is one that leaves the system's capability to achieve its intended results intact. ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor - ISO standards and course material, ISO.LA.CORE

What does the standard require where multi-site sampling is used?

• A. That every site be visited at least once in each cycle
• B. That the client select the sites to be visited
• C. That a sampling programme be developed ✓
• D. That no more than half the sites be sampled
• E. That the accreditation body sign the plan off before the team sets foot on any site the certification covers

Sampling has no place where the sites do not cover the same activity, and some schemes shut it out altogether. ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor - ISO standards and course material, ISO.LA.CORE