Isaca AAIA Practice Test 95
Question 940
An independent AI auditor reviews this case: A risky model update is rolled back but public customer guidance still cites invalid automated decisions made earlier. Which TWO complementary elements should the auditor seek: an effective corrective control and the most probative independent evidence? Select TWO answers.
- Separate development, test and production roles with controlled promotion, scoped credentials and audit trails.
- Declare incident closure when the model endpoint is healthy even if earlier wrong actions remain unresolved.
- Coordinate technical recovery with affected stakeholder review, corrective communication and validated post-incident controls.
- Inspect request counts, context sizes, token or compute cost, caller attribution and saturation events.
- Inspect impact inventory, rollback record, retesting, business communications and lessons-learned owners.
Explanation
Correct Answers
C:The reason it is necessary is: An AI incident ends only after decision impacts, service restoration and recurrence risk are addressed. For this situation: A risky model update is rolled back but public customer guidance still cites invalid automated decisions made earlier.
E:The reason it is necessary is: An AI incident ends only after decision impacts, service restoration and recurrence risk are addressed. The corrective action is: Coordinate technical recovery with affected stakeholder review, corrective communication and validated post-incident controls.
Incorrect Answers
A:This option concerns AI data and model CI/CD separation, which is a related but different AI governance concern. For this situation: A risky model update is rolled back but public customer guidance still cites invalid automated decisions made earlier.
B:This attractive shortcut does not resolve the AI model rollback and stakeholder communication weakness: Declare incident closure when the model endpoint is healthy even if earlier wrong actions remain unresolved. Effective closure requires: Affected decisions are reviewed, relevant stakeholders notified and preventive controls verified.
D:This option concerns AI availability and unbounded consumption incident, which is a related but different AI governance concern. For this situation: A risky model update is rolled back but public customer guidance still cites invalid automated decisions made earlier.
Question 941
A governance and assurance review uncovers the following: A compromised retrieval assistant resumes service after a hotfix with no post-incident red-team regression. What is the MOST appropriate risk-based audit recommendation that addresses the root control weakness? Select ONE best answer.
- Declare incident closure when the model endpoint is healthy even if earlier wrong actions remain unresolved.
- Separate development, test and production roles with controlled promotion, scoped credentials and audit trails.
- Contain disclosure, preserve evidence safely, scope affected data and follow jurisdiction-specific notification assessment.
- Coordinate technical recovery with affected stakeholder review, corrective communication and validated post-incident controls.
Explanation
Correct Answer
D:The reason it is necessary is: An AI incident ends only after decision impacts, service restoration and recurrence risk are addressed. Independent audit evidence includes: Inspect impact inventory, rollback record, retesting, business communications and lessons-learned owners.
Incorrect Answers
A:This attractive shortcut does not resolve the AI model rollback and stakeholder communication weakness: Declare incident closure when the model endpoint is healthy even if earlier wrong actions remain unresolved. In this case: A compromised retrieval assistant resumes service after a hotfix with no post-incident red-team regression.
B:This option concerns AI data and model CI/CD separation, which is a related but different AI governance concern. The decisive principle here is: An AI incident ends only after decision impacts, service restoration and recurrence risk are addressed.
C:This option concerns AI privacy incident preservation and escalation, which is a related but different AI governance concern. The decisive principle here is: An AI incident ends only after decision impacts, service restoration and recurrence risk are addressed.
Question 942
A risk-based audit engagement examines this operating condition: A compromised retrieval assistant resumes service after a hotfix with no post-incident red-team regression. Which principle BEST explains why the observed practice is a material governance or control concern? Select ONE best answer.
- AI delivery involves models, data and code, so conventional app deployment approval alone may not cover behavior changes.
- An AI incident ends only after decision impacts, service restoration and recurrence risk are addressed.
- Declare incident closure when the model endpoint is healthy even if earlier wrong actions remain unresolved.
- AI privacy incidents require ordinary breach governance plus model, retrieval and prompt-specific evidence.
Explanation
Correct Answer
B:Independent audit evidence includes: Inspect impact inventory, rollback record, retesting, business communications and lessons-learned owners. The corrective action is: Coordinate technical recovery with affected stakeholder review, corrective communication and validated post-incident controls.
Incorrect Answers
A:This option concerns AI data and model CI/CD separation, which is a related but different AI governance concern. For this situation: A compromised retrieval assistant resumes service after a hotfix with no post-incident red-team regression.
C:This attractive shortcut does not resolve the AI model rollback and stakeholder communication weakness: Declare incident closure when the model endpoint is healthy even if earlier wrong actions remain unresolved. For this situation: A compromised retrieval assistant resumes service after a hotfix with no post-incident red-team regression.
D:This option concerns AI privacy incident preservation and escalation, which is a related but different AI governance concern. For this situation: A compromised retrieval assistant resumes service after a hotfix with no post-incident red-team regression.
Question 943
An audit committee asks for a defensible assessment of this situation: A compromised retrieval assistant resumes service after a hotfix with no post-incident red-team regression. What evidence should the auditor examine FIRST to substantiate or challenge the control owner’s claim? Select ONE best answer.
- Inspect impact inventory, rollback record, retesting, business communications and lessons-learned owners.
- Inspect tool invocation audit, actor scopes, approval checks, external transaction state and rollback capability.
- Declare incident closure when the model endpoint is healthy even if earlier wrong actions remain unresolved.
- Inspect canary assignment, segment KPIs, error thresholds, baseline model artifacts and rollback drill.
Explanation
Correct Answer
A:The reason it is necessary is: An AI incident ends only after decision impacts, service restoration and recurrence risk are addressed. The acceptable verified outcome is: Affected decisions are reviewed, relevant stakeholders notified and preventive controls verified.
Incorrect Answers
B:This option concerns AI agent unauthorized action incident, which is a related but different AI governance concern. It does not establish control effectiveness for AI model rollback and stakeholder communication.
C:This attractive shortcut does not resolve the AI model rollback and stakeholder communication weakness: Declare incident closure when the model endpoint is healthy even if earlier wrong actions remain unresolved. Coordinate technical recovery with affected stakeholder review, corrective communication and validated post-incident controls.
D:This option concerns Canary releases and model rollback thresholds, which is a related but different AI governance concern. The decisive principle here is: An AI incident ends only after decision impacts, service restoration and recurrence risk are addressed.
Question 944
During an AI controls assessment, the team learns that a compromised retrieval assistant resumes service after a hotfix with no post-incident red-team regression. After management addresses the issue, which result MOST convincingly demonstrates effective remediation? Select ONE best answer.
- Validated clean versions restore approved behavior and compromised data cannot silently retrain new releases.
- Affected decisions are reviewed, relevant stakeholders notified and preventive controls verified.
- Harmful advice is contained, affected users receive appropriate remediation and outputs pass regression tests.
- Declare incident closure when the model endpoint is healthy even if earlier wrong actions remain unresolved.
Explanation
Correct Answer
B:The reason it is necessary is: An AI incident ends only after decision impacts, service restoration and recurrence risk are addressed. This is an observable validation result for AI model rollback and stakeholder communication, not just management assurance: Affected decisions are reviewed, relevant stakeholders notified and preventive controls verified.
Incorrect Answers
A:This option concerns Model poisoning incident response and rollback, which is a related but different AI governance concern. The decisive principle here is: An AI incident ends only after decision impacts, service restoration and recurrence risk are addressed.
C:This option concerns Response to harmful AI-generated advice, which is a related but different AI governance concern. The decisive principle here is: An AI incident ends only after decision impacts, service restoration and recurrence risk are addressed.
D:It misses the key control principle: An AI incident ends only after decision impacts, service restoration and recurrence risk are addressed.
Question 945
An independent AI auditor reviews this case: A fraud engine is stopped after false payment blocks while business owners never receive a record of customers affected. What is the MOST appropriate risk-based audit recommendation that addresses the root control weakness? Select ONE best answer.
- Disable or restrict affected tools, preserve transaction records and verify downstream changes before re-enabling.
- Coordinate technical recovery with affected stakeholder review, corrective communication and validated post-incident controls.
- Declare incident closure when the model endpoint is healthy even if earlier wrong actions remain unresolved.
- Contain disclosure, preserve evidence safely, scope affected data and follow jurisdiction-specific notification assessment.
Explanation
Correct Answer
B:The reason it is necessary is: An AI incident ends only after decision impacts, service restoration and recurrence risk are addressed. In this case: A fraud engine is stopped after false payment blocks while business owners never receive a record of customers affected.
Incorrect Answers
A:This option concerns AI agent unauthorized action incident, which is a related but different AI governance concern. The decisive principle here is: An AI incident ends only after decision impacts, service restoration and recurrence risk are addressed.
C:This attractive shortcut does not resolve the AI model rollback and stakeholder communication weakness: Declare incident closure when the model endpoint is healthy even if earlier wrong actions remain unresolved. In this case: A fraud engine is stopped after false payment blocks while business owners never receive a record of customers affected.
D:This option concerns AI privacy incident preservation and escalation, which is a related but different AI governance concern. In this case: A fraud engine is stopped after false payment blocks while business owners never receive a record of customers affected.
Question 946
A governance and assurance review uncovers the following: A fraud engine is stopped after false payment blocks while business owners never receive a record of customers affected. Which principle BEST explains why the observed practice is a material governance or control concern? Select ONE best answer.
- Declare incident closure when the model endpoint is healthy even if earlier wrong actions remain unresolved.
- Availability and financial loss from AI resource abuse require controls beyond traditional request success checks.
- An AI incident ends only after decision impacts, service restoration and recurrence risk are addressed.
- AI delivery involves models, data and code, so conventional app deployment approval alone may not cover behavior changes.
Explanation
Correct Answer
C:Independent audit evidence includes: Inspect impact inventory, rollback record, retesting, business communications and lessons-learned owners. In this case: A fraud engine is stopped after false payment blocks while business owners never receive a record of customers affected.
Incorrect Answers
A:This attractive shortcut does not resolve the AI model rollback and stakeholder communication weakness: Declare incident closure when the model endpoint is healthy even if earlier wrong actions remain unresolved. For this situation: A fraud engine is stopped after false payment blocks while business owners never receive a record of customers affected.
B:This option concerns AI availability and unbounded consumption incident, which is a related but different AI governance concern. The decisive principle here is: An AI incident ends only after decision impacts, service restoration and recurrence risk are addressed.
D:This option concerns AI data and model CI/CD separation, which is a related but different AI governance concern. In this case: A fraud engine is stopped after false payment blocks while business owners never receive a record of customers affected.
Question 947
A risk-based audit engagement examines this operating condition: A fraud engine is stopped after false payment blocks while business owners never receive a record of customers affected. What evidence should the auditor examine FIRST to substantiate or challenge the control owner’s claim? Select ONE best answer.
- Declare incident closure when the model endpoint is healthy even if earlier wrong actions remain unresolved.
- Inspect tool invocation audit, actor scopes, approval checks, external transaction state and rollback capability.
- Inspect impact inventory, rollback record, retesting, business communications and lessons-learned owners.
- Inspect dataset snapshots, feature pipeline commits, record counts, model registry links and training execution manifests.
Explanation
Correct Answer
C:In this case: A fraud engine is stopped after false payment blocks while business owners never receive a record of customers affected.
Incorrect Answers
A:For this situation: A fraud engine is stopped after false payment blocks while business owners never receive a record of customers affected.
B:This option concerns AI agent unauthorized action incident, which is a related but different AI governance concern. For this situation: A fraud engine is stopped after false payment blocks while business owners never receive a record of customers affected.
D:This option concerns AI training dataset lineage and reproducibility, which is a related but different AI governance concern. It does not establish control effectiveness for AI model rollback and stakeholder communication.
Question 948
An audit committee asks for a defensible assessment of this situation: A fraud engine is stopped after false payment blocks while business owners never receive a record of customers affected. After management addresses the issue, which result MOST convincingly demonstrates effective remediation? Select ONE best answer.
- Affected decisions are reviewed, relevant stakeholders notified and preventive controls verified.
- Declare incident closure when the model endpoint is healthy even if earlier wrong actions remain unresolved.
- Legitimate workloads recover within approved service and spend limits, with abusive bursts denied.
- Validated clean versions restore approved behavior and compromised data cannot silently retrain new releases.
Explanation
Correct Answer
A:This is an observable validation result for AI model rollback and stakeholder communication, not just management assurance: Affected decisions are reviewed, relevant stakeholders notified and preventive controls verified.
Incorrect Answers
B:The auditor should instead examine: Inspect impact inventory, rollback record, retesting, business communications and lessons-learned owners.
C:This option concerns AI availability and unbounded consumption incident, which is a related but different AI governance concern. For this situation: A fraud engine is stopped after false payment blocks while business owners never receive a record of customers affected.
D:This option concerns Model poisoning incident response and rollback, which is a related but different AI governance concern. In this case: A fraud engine is stopped after false payment blocks while business owners never receive a record of customers affected.
Question 949
During an AI controls assessment, the team learns that an annual AI audit plan reviews only internally built models and excludes third-party embedded systems used for loan decisions. What is the MOST appropriate risk-based audit recommendation that addresses the root control weakness? Select ONE best answer.
- Define the AI audit universe and scope using use-case impact, third parties, control reliance and key risk scenarios.
- Define objective risk-based audit criteria from approved organizational policies, relevant standards and applicable law.
- Use approved AI tools for planning with data safeguards, transparent criteria, independent review and reproducible output.
- Audit only applications with AI in their product title and assume vendor features are out of scope.
Explanation
Correct Answer
A:The reason it is necessary is: Audit scope must follow enterprise AI exposure, not only visible software projects or infrastructure boundaries. Independent audit evidence includes: Reconcile AI inventory, data flows, business ownership, complaints, material incidents and risk appetite to audit plan.
Incorrect Answers
B:This option concerns AI audit criteria and control objectives, which is a related but different AI governance concern. It does not establish control effectiveness for Risk-based AI audit universe and scope.
C:This option concerns Using AI during audit engagement planning, which is a related but different AI governance concern. It does not establish control effectiveness for Risk-based AI audit universe and scope.
D:This attractive shortcut does not resolve the Risk-based AI audit universe and scope weakness: Audit only applications with AI in their product title and assume vendor features are out of scope.
Question 950
An independent AI auditor reviews this case: An annual AI audit plan reviews only internally built models and excludes third-party embedded systems used for loan decisions. Which TWO complementary elements should the auditor seek: an effective corrective control and the most probative independent evidence? Select TWO answers.
- Plan third-party evidence access, complementary user controls, limitation statements and risk-based alternative procedures.
- Inspect approved tool use, input sensitivity, model version, generated risk ranking and reviewer corrections.
- Audit only applications with AI in their product title and assume vendor features are out of scope.
- Define the AI audit universe and scope using use-case impact, third parties, control reliance and key risk scenarios.
- Reconcile AI inventory, data flows, business ownership, complaints, material incidents and risk appetite to audit plan.
Explanation
Correct Answers
D:The reason it is necessary is: Audit scope must follow enterprise AI exposure, not only visible software projects or infrastructure boundaries. For this situation: An annual AI audit plan reviews only internally built models and excludes third-party embedded systems used for loan decisions.
E:The reason it is necessary is: Audit scope must follow enterprise AI exposure, not only visible software projects or infrastructure boundaries. This evidence directly tests the asserted control for Risk-based AI audit universe and scope: Reconcile AI inventory, data flows, business ownership, complaints, material incidents and risk appetite to audit plan.
Incorrect Answers
A:This option concerns Third-party AI assurance boundary and audit rights, which is a related but different AI governance concern. It does not establish control effectiveness for Risk-based AI audit universe and scope.
B:This option concerns Using AI during audit engagement planning, which is a related but different AI governance concern. For this situation: An annual AI audit plan reviews only internally built models and excludes third-party embedded systems used for loan decisions.
C:This attractive shortcut does not resolve the Risk-based AI audit universe and scope weakness: Audit only applications with AI in their product title and assume vendor features are out of scope. For this situation: An annual AI audit plan reviews only internally built models and excludes third-party embedded systems used for loan decisions.