Identity-Security-Administrator SailPoint Certified Identity Security Administrator Question and Answers

The statement is incorrect. A disabled role is not the appropriate state for validating actual automated role assignment through identity processing. Identity Security Cloud documents that disabling a role prevents future automated assignment and removes the role association from identities. Consequently, keeping the role disabled and performing identity processing does not provide a valid operational test of whether the configured membership criteria will assign the role as intended.

For an automatically assigned role, administrators define the assignment criteria, configure the required access, and enable the role. Identity Security Cloud then evaluates identities against the assignment criteria during identity processing. An administrator can manually initiate this evaluation by selecting Apply Changes from the Roles page. Identities satisfying the criteria receive the role and its configured access; identities that no longer satisfy the criteria can have the assignment removed.

Administrators should carefully validate role criteria before broad production application, but disabling the role specifically prevents it from functioning as an automated role assignment.

Study Guide Reference: Access Management — Role Management, Role Assignment Criteria, Enabling Roles and Identity Processing.

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The statement is correct. Identity Security Cloud allows administrators to configure a requestable role so that reviewers must provide justification when denying the requested access.

When configuring a role for access requests, administrators can enable the role for requests, define its approval process, and configure Require Comments behavior. SailPoint specifically provides an option named When a reviewer denies the request . Enabling this setting requires the reviewer to enter a comment or reason when rejecting the role request.

This requirement strengthens governance and auditability. A denial without explanation provides limited evidence about why the access was considered inappropriate. Requiring a comment records the business or security reasoning behind the decision, which can later assist administrators, access owners, auditors, and compliance personnel in understanding the approval history.

Comment requirements can also be configured at other stages, including when the requester submits the access request. Similar denial-comment controls exist for directly requestable entitlements.

Therefore, requiring a reviewer to document the reason for rejection is a supported role-request configuration.

Study Guide Reference: Access Management — Requestable Roles, Approval Processes, Require Comments and Access Request Governance.

The statement is not valid in the normal Identity Security Cloud identity model. An authoritative source is specifically used to establish identities. When a source is associated with an identity profile and thereby designated as authoritative, Identity Security Cloud creates an identity from each qualifying authoritative account. The authoritative account therefore forms the identity's authoritative foundation rather than behaving as an ordinary account that must subsequently be correlated to an existing identity.

Uncorrelated accounts normally arise from non-authoritative or secondary sources when Identity Security Cloud cannot match an aggregated account to an existing authoritative identity by using configured correlation criteria. SailPoint defines an uncorrelated account as an account that has not been linked to an authoritative identity. Such accounts must be resolved before their associated access can be properly governed.

Although unusual administrative edge cases can affect existing authoritative-account associations, this does not change the fundamental certification concept: authoritative accounts establish identities, while correlation attaches accounts from other sources to those identities.

Study Guide Reference: Identity and Lifecycle Management — Authoritative Sources, Identity Profiles, Account Correlation and Uncorrelated Accounts.

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The statement is not accurate as a description of the Delimited File Source itself. A Delimited File source reads account information from a supplied file, but the connector does not inherently operate as a continuously connected file-share reader that automatically discovers and aggregates files directly from a network share.

SailPoint documents two principal ways of loading data for the Delimited File source: use the Identity Security Cloud File Upload Utility to provide the file, or manually perform the applicable account aggregation process. SailPoint separately describes the File Upload Utility as a mechanism that can automatically upload files into Identity Security Cloud. That external utility is important because it distinguishes automated file delivery from the Delimited File connector independently connecting to and monitoring a file share.

After the file reaches Identity Security Cloud, the source can process its account and entitlement information according to its schema. Flat-file feeds can also be manually uploaded whenever changes need to be aggregated.

Therefore, automatic collection from a file share is not an intrinsic capability that should be attributed directly to the Delimited File Source.

Study Guide Reference: Sources — Delimited File Sources, File Upload Utility, Flat-File Aggregation and Data Import.

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The statement is incorrect. Identity Profiles remain administratively manageable after identities have been created from their associated authoritative sources. Administrators can edit supported Identity Profile properties, including identity attribute mappings, lifecycle-related configuration, ownership information, and other profile settings. When a change affects identity data, Identity Security Cloud marks the profile as requiring processing, and the administrator can use Apply Changes to recalculate affected identities.

Identity Profiles can also be managed programmatically. SailPoint exposes APIs for updating and deleting Identity Profiles. Some fields have restrictions—for example, system-generated properties cannot be modified, and changes to authoritative-source configuration and identity-attribute configuration have specific processing constraints—but the existence of identities under the profile does not make the profile permanently immutable. The V3 API explicitly provides both update and delete Identity Profile operations.

Because at least the assertion that administrators cannot modify an Identity Profile after identities are assigned is demonstrably false, the overall proposed statement is false.

Study Guide Reference: Identity and Lifecycle Management — Identity Profiles, Editing Identity Profiles, Processing Identity Changes and Identity Profile Administration.

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This is an appropriate diagnostic method within the Search model represented by the course scenario. The query narrows the investigation to events associated with provisioning, filters for events containing errors, constrains the timeframe to the date on which the failure occurred, and associates the result with the affected identity, Clarence.Harper. Opening the corresponding event allows the administrator to investigate the contextual information associated with the failed provisioning operation.

The underlying troubleshooting principle remains central to Identity Security Cloud administration: provisioning failures should be correlated with audit events and account activity rather than evaluated only from the short error message shown in a dashboard. SailPoint Search contains audit-event information and supports filtering against event data. Event records can provide operation details, status, target information, source context, and additional attributes. SailPoint also provides a Provisioning Activity audit-report capability specifically for reviewing provisioning events.

Study Guide Reference: Provisioning — Monitoring Provisioning, Search and Audit Events, Troubleshooting Failed Provisioning Operations.

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The statement is false. Identity Security Cloud distinguishes between defining an identity attribute for the tenant and mapping that attribute within a specific identity profile. When an administrator creates a new custom identity attribute from the mappings configuration of an identity profile, the attribute itself becomes available across all identity profiles in the tenant .

SailPoint explicitly states that any identity attribute added under any identity profile appears in all identity profiles. However, administrators do not have to map or use that attribute in every profile. Each identity profile can define its own mapping because different identity populations can obtain attribute values from different authoritative or secondary sources.

For example, a custom Employee Region attribute could be mapped from an HR source for employees while being mapped from Active Directory for contractors—or left unmapped in a profile where it is unnecessary. This distinction is essential: the attribute definition is tenant-wide, whereas the mapping and resulting value are identity-profile-specific.

Therefore, claiming that the custom attribute applies only to the identity profile where it was created is incorrect.

Study Guide Reference: Identity and Lifecycle Management — Identity Profiles, Custom Identity Attributes and Attribute Mappings.

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The statement is incorrect. A role does not have to be requestable in Identity Security Cloud. Requestability is an optional capability used when organizations want users to obtain a role through the Request Center.

Roles can instead be assigned automatically according to Standard Criteria or an Identity List. When an identity satisfies automated assignment conditions, the role and associated access can be granted through identity processing without the user submitting an access request.

SailPoint specifically states that organizations can allow users to request roles when the role cannot easily be auto-assigned or when someone who does not meet its ordinary assignment criteria might legitimately require the access. To enable this behavior, an administrator edits the role's Access Requests configuration and turns on Allow Access Requests . The presence of an enable/disable setting itself demonstrates that requestability is optional rather than mandatory.

A role can therefore exist purely as automatically assigned business access, purely as requestable access where appropriate, or be configured according to the organization's access-governance design.

Study Guide Reference: Access Management — Roles, Access Requests, Requestable Roles and Automated Role Assignment.

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The statement is incorrect. Identity Security Cloud prevents access-request self-approval by default. If the requester or access recipient belongs to a Governance Group that has been configured as an approval reviewer, SailPoint does not automatically approve the request merely because that person belongs to the group.

Instead, the requester or recipient is omitted from the Governance Group review. Other valid members of the group can review the request on behalf of the Governance Group. If the requester or recipient is the group's only member, the approval responsibility is reassigned to that person's manager. If no manager exists, Identity Security Cloud can ultimately route the approval to an administrator through its fallback behavior.

SailPoint does provide an optional automatic-approval configuration, but this is materially different. Auto-approval applies only when the configured reviewer is an individual identity and requires API configuration. SailPoint explicitly states that automatic approval does not apply when the configured reviewer is a Governance Group, even when the requester is its only member.

Study Guide Reference: Access Management — Access Request Approvals, Governance Groups, Preventing Self-Approval and Automatic Approval.

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The statement is too absolute. Identity Governance and Administration platforms substantially automate and streamline access governance processes, but they do not necessarily eliminate human judgment or fully automate every review, approval, and audit activity.

For example, an IGA platform can automatically generate access certification campaigns, identify the access requiring review, notify reviewers, record their decisions, perform supported remediation, and produce audit evidence. However, designated managers, application owners, source owners, or other certifiers are still commonly required to decide whether individual access should be retained or revoked. SailPoint describes certifications as processes in which designated certifiers review users' access and explicitly approve or revoke it.

Similarly, approval workflows automate routing and enforcement but can still require human authorization. Audit functionality generates searchable events, reports, and evidence, while auditors and compliance professionals still assess whether the organization's controls satisfy applicable requirements.

SailPoint describes IGA as streamlining certification and audit processes by automating reviews, notifications, and audit-ready reporting—not as eliminating every human governance decision.

Study Guide Reference: General knowledge for Identity Security Administrators — Identity Governance and Administration, Access Reviews, Approvals, Audit and Governance Automation.

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The statement is correct. Identity Security Cloud normally uses optimized aggregation , which retrieves records from the source but can skip further processing for an account when the account already exists and no relevant data changes are detected. In that situation, account correlation and manager correlation do not need to be recalculated for unchanged accounts.

Disabling aggregation optimization causes an unoptimized aggregation . SailPoint explicitly states that this mode reprocesses every record regardless of whether the underlying account data has changed. It also reevaluates account-correlation and manager-correlation logic for those accounts.

This is particularly important after changing account-correlation configuration. If an account's attributes have not changed, an optimized aggregation might otherwise skip the account, leaving it uncorrelated despite the newly corrected correlation rules. SailPoint therefore recommends running an aggregation with optimization disabled when correlation logic has been modified on an already-aggregated source.

Unoptimized processing requires more resources and can take longer on large sources, so it should be used deliberately when full reevaluation is necessary rather than as the default aggregation mode.

Study Guide Reference: Sources — Account Aggregation, Optimized and Unoptimized Aggregations, Account Correlation.

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Yes. This is a classic Separation of Duties scenario. The individual requesting a significant system configuration change should not also possess the authority to independently approve that same change. Combining requester and approver responsibilities eliminates an important independent-control checkpoint and allows one person to initiate and authorize a potentially high-impact administrative operation.

SailPoint's official SoD guidance specifically uses major system configuration changes as an example: significant configuration changes should be approved by someone other than the person requesting the change. SoD policies are designed to identify and govern combinations of access that would enable such conflicting responsibilities.

From a governance perspective, the requester initiates the business or technical need, while an independent reviewer determines whether the requested change is appropriate, authorized, and sufficiently controlled. Separating these functions reduces fraud, accidental misconfiguration, privilege abuse, and unauthorized system modification. Where conflicting access already exists, Identity Security Cloud can identify the associated SoD violation for investigation and remediation.

Therefore, allowing the requester to approve their own major system change represents exactly the type of control conflict that SoD is intended to prevent.

Study Guide Reference: Supporting Governance — Separation of Duties, Requester/Approver Conflicts, Internal Controls and SoD Policy Enforcement.

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The statement is valid. Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) strengthens authentication by requiring more than a single verification mechanism before access is granted. Authentication factors are generally categorized as something the user knows, something the user possesses, or something the user inherently is. Requiring multiple factors substantially reduces the effectiveness of a compromised password because possession of that password alone is insufficient to complete authentication.

Identity Security Cloud supports MFA through an external authenticator application. When MFA is configured for an Identity Profile, affected users register an authenticator and subsequently provide a generated verification code during authentication. SailPoint also distinguishes sign-in MFA from two-factor verification used for password resets and account unlocking, where administrators can explicitly require users to complete two configured verification methods.

Therefore, the video's characterization of MFA as requiring two or more forms of verification correctly reflects the underlying security principle. MFA should not be confused with authorization: authentication establishes identity, whereas authorization determines what authenticated identities are permitted to access.

Study Guide Reference: Access Management — Multifactor Authentication, Authentication Factors, Strong Authentication and Identity Profile Sign-In Methods.

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This is a valid description of Separation of Duties (SoD) as an identity-governance control. SoD policies define combinations of access that should not be held by the same identity because combining those privileges could enable fraud, unauthorized transactions, or circumvention of internal controls. A detective implementation analyzes existing access and identifies identities that already violate a defined policy, allowing administrators to investigate, mitigate, revoke access, or document an approved exception.

Preventive policy evaluation applies the same governance principle before problematic access is granted. During an access-request or provisioning process, the proposed access can be evaluated against policy rules so that a potential conflict is identified before the access change is completed. SailPoint documents SoD policies as conflicting-access definitions and also documents preventive policy evaluation in its governance model. These controls provide measurable evidence that an organization is actively enforcing access-risk policies rather than merely documenting them.

Study Guide Reference: Supporting Governance — Separation of Duties, Policy Rules, Detective and Preventive Controls.

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The statement correctly describes the standard escalation behavior represented by the access-request escalation model. Identity Security Cloud can automatically escalate an approval when the assigned reviewer fails to act within the configured timeframe. This prevents an access request from remaining indefinitely with an unavailable or unresponsive approver.

Under the standard escalation pattern, the first and second escalations can route the request to successive manager levels of the assigned reviewer. The third escalation routes the approval to the configured fallback approver. Administrators control escalation timing, frequency, escalation reviewers, and fallback behavior through approval settings. This mechanism operates alongside reminder notifications and request timeout controls.

The fallback approver is particularly important because it provides a final governance path when ordinary escalation cannot resolve the request. SailPoint's current documentation explicitly describes the first two manager escalations followed by a third escalation to the fallback approver when custom approval settings are not configured.

Study Guide Reference: Access Management — Access Requests, Global Reminder and Escalation Policy, Approval Escalation and Fallback Approvers.

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The statement is correct. Attribute synchronization is configured at the source level because administrators must determine which account attributes on a specific governed source should remain synchronized with corresponding Identity Security Cloud identity attributes.

SailPoint's documented configuration path begins by navigating to Admin > Connections > Sources and selecting or editing the appropriate source. Within the source's Account Management section, the administrator opens Attribute Sync . Identity Security Cloud then displays the account attributes that are eligible for synchronization based on the source's Create Account definition and identity-attribute mappings. The administrator selects the attributes that should synchronize and can initiate the appropriate synchronization process.

Attribute Sync applies to existing correlated accounts. It does not independently create accounts, and an uncorrelated account cannot participate because Identity Security Cloud has no authoritative identity relationship from which to determine the target attribute values.

Therefore, accessing the source through Admin > Connections > Sources and configuring Attribute Sync from its account-management configuration is precisely the supported administrative approach.

Study Guide Reference: Provisioning — Configuring Attribute Sync, Source Account Management, Identity Attribute Mapping and Correlated Accounts.

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This proposed API call is not valid for retrieving Virtual Appliance connector logs. The identifier shown in the log entry is a managed-cluster ID , yet the proposed URL incorrectly places that ID under the /v3/sources/ API resource. Managed clusters and sources are separate Identity Security Cloud objects and use different API endpoints.

SailPoint's documented Managed Clusters API provides operations for obtaining cluster details and for retrieving or modifying the cluster's log configuration , such as GET /managed-clusters/{id}/log-config and PUT /managed-clusters/{id}/log-config. It does not document a GET /v3/sources/{managedClusterId}/logs endpoint for exporting VA connector log files.

For connector troubleshooting, enhanced logging can be enabled against the appropriate managed cluster, the problematic operation reproduced, and the resulting VA/connector logs collected through the supported VA troubleshooting process. The administrator must also ensure that the correct cluster associated with the affected source is being investigated.

Therefore, the proposed endpoint confuses a managed cluster with a source and does not represent a supported log-export API.

Study Guide Reference: Virtual Appliances — Managed Clusters, Connector Logging, VA Troubleshooting and SailPoint REST APIs.

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The proposed sequence is incorrect because the administrator should not first apply the Identity Profile's Block Access From settings before defining the underlying network and geography restrictions.

Identity Security Cloud tenant restrictions are configured in two logical stages. First, the organization defines the networks and geographic rules that determine what locations are trusted or untrusted. Network restrictions are based on configured IP address ranges, while geographic restrictions can use trusted or blocked-country definitions. After these global security definitions exist, restrictions are applied to specific user populations through their Identity Profiles.

The Identity Profile does indeed contain Block Access From options such as Off Network and Untrusted Geography, so that part of the statement identifies a real configuration location. However, SailPoint explicitly warns that enabling Off Network without first defining an applicable network can block all users associated with that identity profile from accessing Identity Security Cloud.

Therefore, selecting Block Access From is a required application step, but describing it as the first configuration action makes the proposed solution invalid.

Study Guide Reference: Access Management — Restricting Tenant Access, Network Definitions, Geographic Restrictions and Identity Profile Security.

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This is an essential and valid troubleshooting step. Lifecycle-state provisioning is triggered according to the lifecycle state calculated for an identity. If Identity Security Cloud does not actually consider the affected user to be in the Terminated state, the account-disable operations configured for that lifecycle state will not be initiated.

The administrator should therefore inspect the identity and confirm that its Lifecycle State value resolves to Terminated. If it does not, the next investigation should focus on the identity profile's lifecycle-state configuration, authoritative source attribute mapping, transforms or rules used to calculate lifecycle state, and whether the identity has been properly reprocessed after the source data changed.

Once an identity enters the configured lifecycle state, Identity Security Cloud can apply account actions defined under Settings for Previous Accounts , including disabling accounts across all sources or specified sources. SailPoint specifically uses Terminated and Archived states as examples where access removal and account disablement are commonly configured.

Consequently, validating the identity's actual lifecycle-state value is one of the first diagnostic checks that should be performed before investigating downstream connector or provisioning failures.

Study Guide Reference: Identity and Lifecycle Management — Lifecycle States, Terminated Identities, Lifecycle Attribute Calculation and Account Actions.

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This is not a valid description of how a canceled access request is handled. A cancellation terminates the request before it completes. Once an access request has entered a concluded Canceled state, it is no longer simply a pending approval waiting for an administrator to substitute a decision for the assigned reviewer.

Approval Management does give administrators powerful controls over pending governance work. Administrators can inspect requests, reassign current approvers, send reminders, cancel requests, and, where supported, overwrite the current approval step. Overwriting an approver is fundamentally different from reversing an already canceled request: the administrator is acting on the current approval step of an active request.

SailPoint documentation explicitly identifies Canceled as a concluded status and defines cancellation as termination of the request. The administrator's overwrite capability applies to an approval step, not to resurrecting a request after cancellation. A new request would normally be required when access is still needed after the original request has been terminated.

Study Guide Reference: Access Management — Approval Management, Access Request Status, Administrative Approval Actions.

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The statement is correct. In SAML federation, the Entity ID uniquely identifies a participant in the trust relationship. When Identity Security Cloud is configured to use an external Identity Provider, the Identity Provider Entity ID entered in SailPoint must correspond to the EntityID specified in the IdP's SAML metadata.

This identifier helps Identity Security Cloud determine which trusted Identity Provider issued the authentication assertion. If the configured Entity ID does not match the expected IdP identifier, authentication processing can fail because the received federation information does not correspond to the configured trust relationship.

Administrators must also configure other SAML components correctly, including the Identity Provider login endpoint and signing certificate. The signing certificate enables Identity Security Cloud to validate the authenticity and integrity of SAML assertions received from the IdP.

It is also important to distinguish between the IdP Entity ID and the Identity Security Cloud Service Provider Entity ID. Each identifies a different side of the SAML relationship.

Study Guide Reference: Access Management — SAML Authentication, Identity Provider Configuration, Entity IDs and Federation Trust.

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The statement is explicitly incorrect. Identity Security Cloud allows users to hold multiple User Levels in many circumstances, and permissions from compatible User Levels are cumulative. However, SailPoint defines several combinations that cannot be assigned simultaneously because their delegated administrative scopes conflict.

One of the specifically prohibited combinations is Role Admin and Source Sub-Admin . SailPoint's User Level documentation lists this pair among the User Levels that cannot coexist on the same user. Other prohibited combinations include Role Sub-Admin with Source Admin, Role Sub-Admin with Role Admin, and Source Sub-Admin with Source Admin.

The distinction is important. A Role Admin has broad role-management privileges, whereas a Source Sub-Admin receives scoped administrative capabilities based on Governance Group associations with particular sources. Combining certain global and scoped administrative models could create inconsistent authorization behavior, so SailPoint prevents those assignments.

Administrators should therefore consult the User Level compatibility matrix before granting multiple elevated permissions rather than assuming that every User Level can be stacked.

Study Guide Reference: Platform — User Level Permissions, User Level Compatibility, Role Admin and Source Sub-Admin.

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Gather data from requestor to build search query.

Run the query to gather results.

Save and name the search query.

Schedule saved search query on a month cadence as requested.

The sequence follows the correct Identity Security Cloud Search workflow. First, the administrator must gather the audit requirements from the requestor, including which distribution list, identities, access attributes, or other conditions must be evaluated. Those requirements are then translated into an appropriate Search query. Second, the query must be executed so the administrator can confirm that it returns the intended records before automating it.

After validating the output, the administrator saves and names the query. Identity Security Cloud requires the query to exist as a saved search before a recurring subscription can be configured. Finally, the saved search is scheduled according to the requested monthly cadence. SailPoint supports subscriptions to saved searches with Daily, Weekly, and Monthly schedules and allows administrators to specify the numerical days of the month and execution times. Therefore, scheduling must occur after the query has been constructed, tested, and saved.

Study Guide Reference: Platform — Search, Building Search Queries, Saved Searches, Search Subscriptions and Scheduled Reporting.

The statement is valid for identities whose role assignment is actively enforcing the role's access. Identity Security Cloud roles represent collections of access that can include entitlements and access profiles. When role access is expanded, the role's existing members are expected to receive the additional required access so their actual source access continues to satisfy the role definition.

Role configuration changes are not necessarily applied to every identity immediately at the moment the administrator saves the role. SailPoint states that access additions are handled by identity processing . Administrators can select Apply Changes on the Roles page to initiate processing across identities, or the change can be applied when relevant identity processing subsequently occurs. During that processing, the system recalculates the role-based access requirements and provisions new access to applicable source accounts.

This behavior is important to understand operationally: editing a role changes its access model, and Identity Security Cloud must then propagate those additions to identities holding the role.

Study Guide Reference: Access Management — Roles, Managing Role Access, Role Change Processing and Automated Provisioning.

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The statement is correct. During an Identity Security Cloud certification, the reviewer evaluates each required access item and records the appropriate decision—for example, approving or revoking access. The certification cannot be properly completed while required review items remain undecided.

SailPoint's current user documentation states that after the reviewer has reviewed each item , the reviewer is taken to the sign-off page to complete the certification. The reviewer then selects Finish to submit the decisions and move the certification into the completed state. SailPoint's certification overview likewise describes the sequence as reviewing assigned access, approving or revoking items, and then signing off on those decisions.

Sign-off has governance significance beyond the user-interface transition. Revocation decisions that have not been signed off are not treated as finalized remediation instructions. SailPoint explicitly warns that unsigned revoke decisions are not applied and can be treated as undecided when a campaign is administratively completed.

Therefore, completion of the required decisions is the prerequisite that brings the reviewer to the certification sign-off stage.

Study Guide Reference: Supporting Governance — Access Certifications, Review Decisions, Certification Sign-Off and Campaign Completion.

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The statement is incorrect. Identity Security Cloud does not use majority voting within a Governance Group for an access-request approval step. When a Governance Group is configured as a reviewer, only one eligible member of that Governance Group is required to approve or deny the request on behalf of the group .

SailPoint explains that when an access request reaches a Governance Group, its members receive the applicable review assignment. Once one member makes the decision, the review is treated as completed for that Governance Group and disappears from the other members' pending approval lists.

This should not be confused with a multi-step approval process containing several separate reviewers. If the access item is configured with multiple required reviewer stages, each required stage must approve before provisioning occurs. However, a Governance Group itself represents one reviewer stage, and that stage does not require approval from 50%, a majority, or every member.

Therefore, requiring a majority of Governance Group members is not how standard Identity Security Cloud Governance Group approvals operate.

Study Guide Reference: Access Management — Governance Group Approvals, Access Requests, Multi-Approver Processes and Group Review Decisions.

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