ISC2 Governance, Risk and Compliance (CGRC) Practice Question
After a Change Control Board approves a critical patch for an agency's mission-essential system, the information system security officer moves the code into a designated test environment before any other promotion occurs. According to sound change-management practice, what is the primary reason for using this test environment at this stage?
To confirm that the patch meets functional requirements and preserves security controls in an environment isolated from production
To measure performance impacts on live users and infrastructure under realistic workload conditions
To archive legacy system components and securely dispose of obsolete data before hardware retirement
To allow developers to write and compile additional feature enhancements requested by stakeholders
A test environment is an isolated replica of production that lets the organization verify that a proposed change works as intended and does not introduce new vulnerabilities or break existing security controls. Validating functionality and security in this safe setting prevents unintended outages or compromises in the live environment. Writing new features is done in development, load measurements on real users belong in staging or production, and archiving or sanitizing data occurs during decommissioning-not during pre-deployment testing.
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