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Check your readiness for the ISACA Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) exam with 50 risk-practitioner questions across all four domains of the 2025 exam content outline, each with an instant explanation. Free to take, timed to the pace of the real exam, and retake it as often as you want.
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This free ISACA CRISC practice test checks your readiness with 50 risk-practitioner questions across all four domains of the 2025 exam content outline, each with an explanation for every answer choice, under an 80-minute timer that matches the pace of the real exam. Built by Training Camp, an award-winning ISACA Elite+ Training Partner, and drawn from the same objectives we teach in our CRISC Certification Boot Camp.
The CRISC exam is organized into four weighted domains under the exam content outline that took effect November 3, 2025: Governance (26%), Risk Assessment (22%), Risk Response and Reporting (32%), and Technology and Security (20%). This practice test draws its 50 questions from every domain in the same proportions: 13, 11, 16, and 10. For the full breakdown, see ISACA's official CRISC exam content outline.
The real exam has 150 multiple-choice questions and a 4-hour (240-minute) time limit, and it is scored on a scale of 200 to 800 with 450 required to pass. Questions are written from the IT risk practitioner's point of view: what should be done first, which input is most important, who owns the decision. The distractors are often sensible technical actions that skip a governance step or take a decision away from the risk owner, so practicing the practitioner's judgment matters more than memorizing control lists.
The 2025 outline kept the four-domain structure of the 2021 version but shortened two names: IT Risk Assessment became Risk Assessment, and Information Technology and Security became Technology and Security. Two percentage points moved from Technology and Security to Risk Assessment, and the topic list still names emerging technologies and the monitoring and reporting of emerging risks. Exams taken on or after November 3, 2025 use the 2025 outline, which this test follows.
Take it once under the 80-minute timer without notes. That works out to 1.6 minutes per question, the same pace as 150 questions in 4 hours on the real exam. Then read every explanation, including the ones for choices you did not pick. The wrong-answer explanations show the reasoning patterns ISACA expects, such as comparing residual risk with risk appetite before recommending a response, or escalating a risk acceptance to the owner instead of making it yourself. Use the per-domain breakdown to decide where to study, then retake the test after a week to see whether your judgment has shifted.
Domains Covered · CRISC
Organizational and risk governance: strategy, culture, policies, ERM, lines of defense, appetite.
Risk events, threat modeling, vulnerabilities, scenarios, BIA, register, inherent and residual risk.
Response options, control design and testing, KRIs and KCIs, monitoring, reporting to stakeholders.
Enterprise architecture, operations, SDLC, projects, emerging tech, security concepts, privacy, DR.
Four questions from the bank, one per domain, with the reasoning behind every answer. The full test has 50.
A regional bank hires its first dedicated IT risk practitioner. The board asks for a report on the top IT risks within a month, but the enterprise has never defined how much risk it is willing to accept. What should the practitioner do FIRST?
Correct. Risk appetite is the amount of risk the enterprise is willing to accept in pursuit of its objectives, and it is the reference point every later rating, prioritization and treatment decision depends on. Establishing it with senior management comes before reporting on any individual risk.
A risk practitioner at an online travel agency is developing risk scenarios for the booking platform. A workshop produces a long list of technical failure modes suggested by engineers. To make the scenarios useful for risk analysis, what is the MOST important element to include in each one?
Correct. A risk scenario describes a threat acting on an asset or process to produce a business consequence. Naming the affected asset and the consequence is what lets the scenario be rated for impact and likelihood and understood by the owner who must decide on it.
A risk assessment at a wholesale distributor finds that a legacy warehouse management system carries residual risk above the enterprise tolerance. Replacing it is scheduled in 20 months, remediation would cost more than the system is worth, and the operations director asks the practitioner to "just sign off on it." What should the practitioner do?
Correct. The practitioner's job is to analyze and present viable responses, for example low-cost compensating controls plus a formal, time-bound acceptance with review dates, and let the accountable risk owner choose. That keeps the decision with the person who bears the consequence.
A city transit authority is replacing its fare collection system. The IT team wants to skip the security requirements phase and add controls during testing to hit a launch date. From a risk perspective, what is the BEST argument the practitioner can make for keeping security in the requirements phase of the system development life cycle (SDLC)?
Correct. Security requirements defined early shape the design, so controls are built in rather than bolted on. Defects found in testing are expensive to correct, and the schedule pressure that caused the shortcut is the same pressure that leads teams to accept them and ship, leaving the risk in production.
Every one of the 50 questions works this way: an explanation for the right answer and for the one you picked, so a wrong answer teaches you something. Questions last reviewed against the current ISACA Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) objectives.
Quick answers about the test, the ISACA Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) exam, and how to prepare.
Yes. All 50 questions are free to take, with a written explanation for every answer choice across all four ISACA CRISC domains, and you can retake it as often as you want.
50 risk-practitioner questions drawn from all four CRISC domains, with an instant explanation after each answer and an 80-minute timer that matches the pace of the real exam (1.6 minutes per question). Your results break down by domain. It is a readiness check, not a substitute for full preparation.
The ISACA CRISC exam has 150 multiple-choice questions and a 4-hour (240-minute) time limit. Some items are unscored pretest questions, but you will not know which, so answer every question as if it counts.
CRISC is scored on a scale of 200 to 800, and you need a scaled score of 450 or higher to pass. The scaled score is not a percentage of questions answered correctly, and domain-level results are reported for information only.
The exam content outline that took effect November 3, 2025 has four domains: Governance (26%), Risk Assessment (22%), Risk Response and Reporting (32%), and Technology and Security (20%). Compared with the 2021 outline, two domain names were shortened (IT Risk Assessment is now Risk Assessment, and Information Technology and Security is now Technology and Security) and two percentage points moved from Technology and Security to Risk Assessment.
You can sit the exam at any time, but to certify ISACA requires three or more years of cumulative work experience in IT risk management and information systems control, performing the tasks of a CRISC professional across at least two of the four domains. The experience must be gained within the ten years before you apply, ISACA offers no experience waivers or substitutions for CRISC, and you must apply within five years of passing the exam.
CRISC tests judgment more than technical depth. Most questions describe a situation and ask what the risk practitioner should do first, which factor matters most, or who should make the decision, and several of the wrong choices are usually reasonable actions. Candidates who have worked in risk, audit, or security governance tend to find the reasoning familiar; others need to practice thinking in terms of risk owners, appetite and residual risk.
Study ISACA's official CRISC Review Manual and question database, learn the vocabulary of the exam content outline (risk appetite, KRIs, inherent versus residual risk, the three lines of defense), and consider an accelerated CRISC Certification Boot Camp that includes the exam voucher and a free retake if you need it.