Which discipline establishes and maintains the integrity of identified outputs of a project or process and makes them available to stakeholders?

• A. Configuration Management
• B. Change Management
• C. Group Policy
• D. Vulnerability Management Operator

Answer: (A)

Configuration management focuses on identifying, documenting, and controlling the outputs of a project or process so they stay consistent with their approved baselines. It establishes a baseline for each artifact, tracks any changes through a formal process, and keeps status accounting and audit trails. This ensures the integrity of the deliverables—software, documents, configurations, or other artifacts—and makes the correct, approved versions available to stakeholders when needed. Without this discipline, different teams could end up with divergent copies or configurations, causing confusion and mismatches. Change management governs how changes are requested and approved, group policy manages centralized settings in a Windows environment, and vulnerability management operator concentrates on finding and addressing security flaws.