IIBA CBAP Exam - Topic 4 Question 52 Discussion

Actual exam question for IIBA's CBAP exam

Question #: 52
Topic #: 4

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An insurance company wants to implement a business intelligence solution to consolidate data from various different internal system to provide a better understanding of their customer base.

A business analysis (BA) is engaged to put together a tender (bid) to be sent to various business intelligence providers and implemention partners. Among other information the business analysis request the following:

* Licensing costs for year 0 based on needing 1 Central processing Unit (CPU) license

* Licensing costs for specific user types such as Report Creators Online Analytical Process (OLAO) user and Power users

* Predicted licensing costs for renewing in Years 1 and 2

* Full implementation costs

After reviewing the received vendor responses the project team shortlists the candidates to 3 and the BA structures the received information as follows:

The Insurance company has a maximum bucket of $310,000 for the entire to implementation and operation over the first three years. Which vendor or vendors meet that criteria?

ABoth companies B and C

BCompany B

CCompany A

DBoth companies A and C

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Suggested Answer: C

by Georgene at May 30, 2022, 04:13 PM

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Irma

4 months ago

Gotta stick to that $310k limit, so careful choices!

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Golda

5 months ago

Not sure if the predicted costs are accurate for years 1 and 2.

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Dominque

5 months ago

Surprised that Company A is even in the running!

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Refugia

5 months ago

I think both B and C could work within the budget.

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Annice

5 months ago

Company B is the most cost-effective option.

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Kate

5 months ago

I’m a bit confused about how to interpret the licensing costs for the different user types. Do we need to factor those into the total for the three years?

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Skye

5 months ago

I think Company B might be the best choice based on the costs I see here, but I need to double-check the implementation costs for Company A.

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Jesse

5 months ago

This seems similar to the practice question about vendor selection we did last week. I think we need to add up the costs for each vendor to see who fits within the budget.

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Arlie

5 months ago

I remember we discussed how to calculate total costs over multiple years, but I'm not sure if I got the formulas right for this question.

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Jess

6 months ago

Okay, let me think this through step-by-step. First, I need to understand the "Tax System" scenario and the relevant boundary values. Then I can evaluate which one would be the most interesting to test using boundary value analysis.

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Wilson

6 months ago

Hmm, I'm a bit unsure about this one. I'll need to think through the relationship between the Information Server and Normal Server and when updates would continue to be sent.

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Graciela

6 months ago

Okay, let me see if I can figure this out. Since the question states that the user can still authenticate to Azure AD for up to 30 minutes after being disabled in Active Directory, the solution of configuring password writeback doesn't seem to address that specific issue. I'll need to explore other options that can immediately prevent the user from authenticating.

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