ITPEC FE Subject A April 2026 Question 13

(iii), (iv), (ii), (i) — measure the present, learn the new demand, design, then review.

Capacity planning for a new workload on an existing system runs in that order:

1. (iii) Establish the baseline: what the current hardware and environment actually deliver, from the monitoring data already being collected
2. (iv) Gather the new requirements from users — process counts and the time they need
3. (ii) Propose a configuration that meets those requirements, deciding server count and whether work can be distributed
4. (i) Evaluate that proposal for appropriateness and revise it if necessary

Answer (b)

Why not others:
- (a) (iii), (ii), (iv), (i) — designs the configuration before finding out what the new task demands
- (c) (iv), (ii), (i), (iii) — never establishes the current baseline until after the design is already approved
- (d) (iv), (iii), (i), (ii) — evaluates a proposal at step 3 that is not created until step 4

Key rule: Requirements and measurements always precede design, and design always precedes review. Any ordering that reviews or proposes before gathering inputs is wrong.

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