Exam Identity-Security-Administrator Topic 1 Question 73 Discussion

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.