CISA · Question #252
An organization has engaged a third party to implement an application to perform business- critical calculations. Which of the following is the MOST important process to help ensure the application…
The correct answer is A. Quality assurance (QA). To ensure an application performs accurate calculations, Quality Assurance (QA) is the most critical process as it directly verifies functionality and correctness against requirements.
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An organization has engaged a third party to implement an application to perform business- critical calculations. Which of the following is the MOST important process to help ensure the application provides accurate calculations?
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- AQuality assurance (QA)
- BChange management
- CKey performance indicator (KPI) monitoring
- DConfiguration management
How the community answered
(40 responses)- A88% (35)
- B3% (1)
- C8% (3)
- D3% (1)
Why each option
To ensure an application performs accurate calculations, Quality Assurance (QA) is the most critical process as it directly verifies functionality and correctness against requirements.
Quality assurance (QA) is the most important process because it involves systematically testing the application to verify that it meets specified requirements and functions correctly, directly ensuring the accuracy of business-critical calculations. QA activities include functional testing, performance testing, and regression testing, all aimed at identifying and rectifying defects before deployment.
Change management ensures controlled modifications to the application but does not, by itself, guarantee the initial or ongoing accuracy of calculations.
KPI monitoring tracks the application's operational performance after deployment but does not proactively ensure the accuracy of its calculations during implementation.
Configuration management maintains consistency of the application's components and settings but does not directly test or validate the correctness of its core calculations.
Concept tested: Application accuracy assurance
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