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Question 328

A business unit of a transnational manufacturer wants to implement a robust process for addressing integrity-critical equipment deterioration incidents. Timely and complete resolution of such incidents is vital for the business unit's continuous safe and profitable operation. Treating each incident involves many employees from different departments extensively collaborating and exchanging information. That information is spread across multiple systems having their access limited to particular user groups. With the current manual process, some incidents get forgotten and remain unresolved for years.

The project's Sponsor is an Equipment Integrity and Reliability Advisor, who moved into this position from another business unit. That business unit implemented a proprietary application to integrate the information and to assist in tracking and managing the incidents. Having a positive experience with the application, the

Sponsor is suggesting to customize it and reuse in the new business unit.

The business unit's Enterprise Architect (EA), who is responsible for assessing solution options and presenting them to executive decision makers, has a few concerns with adopting the existing application. The application uses point-to-point interfaces with other data sources whereas the business unit's target architecture relies on a data warehouse-based integration. Moreover, the two business units use different legacy systems, as well as different front-end implementation technologies. Additionally, the existing application is monolingual, while the business unit needs user interfaces and some data to be presented in two languages. With all of this, it may be easier to build a new application from scratch than to customize the existing one. To understand which option is better, the EA asks a business analyst (BA) to define business requirements.

The EA wants to understand whether the integration capabilities of the existing solution match the business unit's IT landscape. The requirement definition that the

EA needs should read as, "Each record of an incident shall __________."

    Correct Answer: A

    Each record of an incident needs to be associated with the unit of equipment to which it belongs. This requirement is broad enough to allow flexibility in the system's design while ensuring the necessary relationship between the incident and equipment. It avoids specifying particular systems like an asset management system or particular data fields such as an equipment ID, making it suitable for the initial phases of requirement definition and adaptable to varied IT landscapes.

Discussion
[Removed]Option: C

C seems to be a better definition than A.

RabbitsfootOption: B

Option B, "include the associated equipment's information from the asset management system," is the most appropriate because it specifies including all relevant information about the equipment, not just the ID, and it ensures alignment with the business unit's IT landscape and the integration capabilities of the existing solution.

Rabbitsfoot

In fact, I changed my mind. They are still strategy analysis stage , assessing solution options (solution scope) basically, build a new system or customize. The question ask for the BA to define “business requirements” , which need to be more flexible. So based on that , I would go with “A” because it’s more system agnostic. The other options are too rigid to be business requirements and would fall more into functional requirements. Also, the mention of the asset management system mentioned in B and D, and the ID mentioned in C and D, suggest that some form of a solution has already been determined. They are still trying to figure this this part out. This is a tough one...

[Removed]Option: A

Honestly, I'm not sure, But my opinion is: "The application uses point-to-point interfaces with other data sources whereas the business unit's target architecture relies on a data warehouse-based integration. " The new application should rely on a data warehouse-based integration (data transformations and consolidations happen in one place). Maybe in this case, the asset management system is not an option. If choose between A and C, I would go with A, because we can not be sure that the equipment has ID, may be it is equipment Number

rupakarthikOption: A

i believe its A or C because the question never spoke of asset management system.

rhsdeal

Well based on your line of thinking I agree, but these questions have been all over the map. I agree B and D have to be out due to the line in the main question of "That information is spread across multiple systems having their access limited to particular user groups." So there is no existing asset management system. There is only one option that implies more information than simply an ID number and doesn’t mention the mythical asset management system. So I am going with: option A “Each record of an incident shall" - "be associated with the unit of equipment to which it belongs."

BirdCatcher

Answer A seems the be the best option. Also, keywords might be "match" and "the business unit" from the text. There is no "asset management system", nor "ID of the equipment" in the question.