What is a key benefit of maintaining a complete audit trail of change management activities?

It allows changes to be implemented without approval

It provides evidence of compliance and supports incident investigation

It guarantees that no security incidents will occur

It eliminates the need for configuration management

Why is it important to audit change management activities?

To reduce the number of change requests

To ensure changes are implemented quickly without delay

To verify that changes were properly authorized, documented, and traceable

To identify which employees should be promoted

A company is planning a major change to its customer relationship management (CRM) system. The change has been approved, and the implementation is scheduled. The change manager is concerned about the impact on customer data. What is the most appropriate action?

Develop a detailed implementation plan that includes data migration, testing, and rollback procedures.

Cancel the change and keep the current system.

Implement the change during off-peak hours to minimize disruption.

Proceed with the change and ensure that data backups are taken before implementation.

Which of the following is the most effective way to communicate the outcome of a completed change to stakeholders?

Send a detailed technical report to all employees

Post the change details on a public website

Wait for stakeholders to ask for an update

Provide a summary of the change, its results, and any follow-up actions to affected stakeholders

A change is proposed to move a web application from HTTP to HTTPS. The security team is conducting an impact analysis. What is the primary security benefit of this change?

It prevents cross-site scripting attacks.

It authenticates the user to the server.

It prevents denial-of-service attacks.

It ensures the confidentiality and integrity of data transmitted between the client and server.

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Domain 1Objective 6

1.6 - Support And/or Implement Change Management Lifecycle SSCP Practice Questions (Page 5)

Part of the Security Concepts and Practices domain, which accounts for 16% of the SSCP exam. ISC2 does not publish an official question count, but from its 120-minute exam (~50–80 total, ~8–13 in this domain), expect 1–2 from this objective — we provide 32 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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23expert · hard
A company is planning a major change to its customer relationship management (CRM) system. The change has been approved, and the implementation is scheduled. The change manager is concerned about the impact on customer data. What is the most appropriate action?
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25application · medium
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