Which of the following is the PRIMARY benefit of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to configuration management practices?

Question

Options

• AIt prevents unauthorized changes outside of approved change windows.
• BIt expedites infrastructure performance testing and throughput.
• CIt expedites the infrastructure provisioning process and defines baselines
• DIt prevents users from overriding configuration changes after deployment.

• B
  4% (1)
• C
  88% (22)
• D
  8% (2)

Explanation

IaC's core value to configuration management is that infrastructure is defined, versioned, and deployed through code - this both accelerates provisioning (eliminating manual, error-prone steps) and inherently establishes a codified baseline (the code itself is the configuration standard). The codebase serves as the authoritative record of what the infrastructure should look like. Option A (preventing unauthorized changes) is a benefit of change control processes, not IaC specifically. Option B (performance testing) is unrelated to IaC's primary configuration management benefit. Option D (preventing post-deployment overrides) is a related enforcement benefit but not the primary one - IaC focuses on defining and deploying baselines, not necessarily locking them post-deployment.

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