ISC2 Governance, Risk and Compliance (CGRC) Practice Question
A federal agency plans to adopt a SaaS that already holds a FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board (JAB) provisional ATO (P-ATO) at the Moderate baseline. Before deployment, what must the agency's Authorizing Official do to meet FedRAMP requirements?
Examine the P-ATO security package, document an agency risk decision, and grant an Agency ATO for the service.
Require the provider to undergo a full assessment against the FedRAMP High baseline and obtain a new JAB P-ATO.
Send a notification to the FedRAMP PMO and rely on it to conduct continuous monitoring on the agency's behalf.
Treat the JAB P-ATO as final approval and allow immediate operational use without further review.
Under FedRAMP, a P-ATO granted by the Joint Authorization Board is only provisional; risk acceptance remains the responsibility of each using agency. Therefore, an agency must review the full security authorization package produced for the P-ATO, determine whether the residual risk is acceptable in its own environment, and then issue an Agency ATO (or letter of authorization) before the system can operate for that agency. Simply relying on the P-ATO, demanding a new High-baseline assessment, or shifting continuous-monitoring duties to the PMO does not satisfy the requirement for agency-level authorization and risk acceptance.
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