Which statement best distinguishes change management from release management?

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Which statement best distinguishes change management from release management?

The key idea is that change management governs the lifecycle of a change request—capturing, assessing, obtaining approvals, implementing, and closing the change—focusing on risk and authorization. Release management, meanwhile, handles delivering a set of changes as a release: planning the release, coordinating builds and testing, and deploying into production with proper scheduling and stakeholder communication. This aligns with the statement that change management controls the lifecycle of change requests, while release management plans and coordinates deployment into production. The other options mix up responsibilities or oversimplify the roles—for example, approvals and deployment planning are not swapped in reality, and security or performance aren’t the sole domains of these functions.

The key idea is that change management governs the lifecycle of a change request—capturing, assessing, obtaining approvals, implementing, and closing the change—focusing on risk and authorization. Release management, meanwhile, handles delivering a set of changes as a release: planning the release, coordinating builds and testing, and deploying into production with proper scheduling and stakeholder communication.

This aligns with the statement that change management controls the lifecycle of change requests, while release management plans and coordinates deployment into production. The other options mix up responsibilities or oversimplify the roles—for example, approvals and deployment planning are not swapped in reality, and security or performance aren’t the sole domains of these functions.

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