DPI Guiding Principles And GRC Practice Question

An organization's internal audit department identifies that cloud resource provisioning lacks appropriate approval gates. The cloud team wants to use AWS Control Tower and Service Catalog to enforce governance without slowing down developers. Which guiding principle is best demonstrated by building guardrails into automated provisioning templates?

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Optimize and automate

Embedding governance into automated provisioning templates aligns with 'Optimize and automate' and 'Keep it simple and practical'.

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Optimize and automate
Why this is correct
Using AWS Control Tower and Service Catalog automates compliance guardrails directly into the provisioning workflow.
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Start where you are
Why it's wrong here
The focus is on building automated guardrails, not assessing the baseline.
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Collaborate and promote visibility
Why it's wrong here
While collaboration is good, automated guardrails represent technical optimization and automation.
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Focus on value
Why it's wrong here
Value is secondary to the technical automation of governance controls here.

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