ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Practice Question
During a post-mortem after a production incident, your SaaS team discovers that the cloud-hosted web front-end becomes unresponsive whenever traffic suddenly rises from 200 to 2 000 concurrent sessions. The current CI/CD pipeline already runs unit tests, service-level integration tests, and static application security scanning. To detect this kind of problem earlier while keeping the process fully automated, which additional QA activity should you add to the pipeline?
Run software composition analysis (SCA) to detect vulnerable third-party libraries in the build artifacts.
Insert an interactive application security testing (IAST) stage to monitor the running code for vulnerabilities.
Schedule a manual exploratory testing session by the QA team at the end of each sprint.
Add an automated load or stress performance test that drives high-volume concurrent requests against a staging environment.
The outage was triggered by an unexpected surge in concurrent users, a classic performance and scalability problem. Automated load or stress performance testing exercises the application with high request volumes and measures response times, resource utilization, and error rates, revealing bottlenecks before production. Interactive application security testing and software composition analysis focus on security vulnerabilities, not runtime performance. Manual exploratory testing could find the issue but is neither automated nor reliably repeatable within every CI/CD run, so it does not satisfy the stated requirement.
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