ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Practice Question
A development team is deploying a new microservice to a public cloud Container-as-a-Service platform. Management has asked Quality Assurance (QA) to "shift left" so that defects are discovered as early as possible and do not reach later SDLC stages. Which practice most effectively supports this goal in a cloud-native CI/CD workflow?
Conduct a manual load-testing campaign in a staging environment at the end of every quarter.
Rely on production log monitoring to identify errors after each deployment and open tickets for fixes.
Perform a monthly disaster-recovery failover exercise to uncover defects under real-world conditions.
Trigger an automated suite of unit, integration, and performance tests on each code commit inside the CI pipeline that builds the container image.
Shifting QA "left" means performing quality activities as early in the software development life cycle as possible. Integrating automated unit, integration, and performance tests into the continuous-integration (CI) pipeline ensures every code commit is validated in a production-like container image before it is merged or deployed. This provides rapid feedback and prevents defective builds from progressing further.
Running quarterly load tests, performing disaster-recovery drills, or waiting for production monitoring all occur late in the life cycle and only reveal issues after features are already integrated or released, which contradicts the goal of detecting defects early.
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