Is 5 minutes really enough for a real audit?

For a self-assessment first pass, yes. For a final sign-off audit, no, that’s a 1-3 day paid engagement.

Here’s the honest breakdown of what these 50 questions can and cannot do:

• What 5 minutes covers: the questions a senior Magento operator can answer from memory + a quick admin-panel glance, patch level, 2FA on/off, FPC enabled, indexers in schedule mode, cron running, composer audit last result, sessions on Redis. About 35-45 of the 50 questions fall here.
• What 5 minutes can’t cover: things requiring code-reading or query-running, how many custom modules use deprecated APIs, whether a quote workflow still validates after the last patch, whether canonical tags are correct on every layered-nav permutation. Skip those, then ask your dev team. About 5-10 of the 50.
• What this checklist deliberately doesn’t do: custom-module security review, slow-query log analysis, dependency vulnerability deep-scan, ERP integration data-integrity check. Those are the deep-audit territory.

So: 5 minutes for the self-assessment, then a paid 1-3 day deep audit ($1.5k, $3k) if your overall grade is C or below, or any single category is at D.