Question 550
During an outsourced-services renewal at a logistics group, the IS auditor learns that a failed application patch is retried without validating the rollback state. The affected operation supports freight tracking and fleet operations. Delivery commitments and partner data flow through this process. Where should the audit team focus its principal finding?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Correct. Unapproved or poorly tested changes can disrupt services or leave known vulnerabilities without accountable treatment. The described exception is: a failed application patch is retried without validating the rollback state. This risk ties the observation to the business significance of freight tracking and fleet operations, rather than treating management's claim as independent assurance.
Incorrect Answers
Service measures that omit consumer outcomes or lack reliable calculation can conceal contractual and operational failures. It changes a different feature than evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion.
Correlated dependencies and insufficient headroom can defeat assumed availability during disruption. The configuration must instead establish evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion.
Weak database controls can undermine transactional integrity, accountability and recoverability. The evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion prerequisite remains unaddressed.