Certified Identity and Access Manager (CIAM) Practice Exam

Approval trails are about documenting who authorized access and when, which is the essence of access governance. The term access approvals specifically refers to the authorization step that creates a traceable record showing that a particular person or role was approved for a given entitlement. The provisioning process is the actual granting of rights after approval, while audit reports summarize events and can include approvals, and default security setup is just a baseline configuration. So the approval trail for granting rights is best described by access approvals.