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Record changes that could make an assessment answer untrue, distinguish planned from checked work, and use the log to challenge renewal answers.

Describe the starter's tasks, approve the access needed and check a normal piece of work before closing the setup request.

Review the accounts, sign-in routes and protection settings together. An installed authenticator app or a single status label doesn't explain the whole arrangement.

Confirm the timetable with your Certification Body, arrange the access and people it needs, and finish preparation across the whole agreed scope.

Keep the previous year intact, confirm which answers to carry and check current evidence before marking the new record ready.

Ask what your provider covers, what remains with your business and how unresolved work gets finished. Review answers you can understand before signing.

Match protection reports to the devices people use, investigate missing results and follow an alert through to the person responsible for acting on it.

Make it easy to recognise which account is active and to get help with an administrative task. Check the arrangement in cloud services as well as on computers.

Start with the software that would be hardest to replace. Confirm its support date, test the work that depends on it and give the change a named owner.

Write down what the device needs to do, then check its accounts, software and locking before you hand it over.

Count from the vendor's release date and check that each update finished. Leave time to fix failures and catch up with devices that are offline.

Start with how people do their jobs. Then decide which devices and cloud services are in scope, and who looks after them.