ITPEC IP April 2026 Question 96
Which of the following analysis techniques is used in Enterprise Architecture (EA) to clarify the issues by comparing the ideal situation with the current situation?
Explanation
Gap analysis — comparing the ideal (to-be) state with the current (as-is) state to find the issues.
In enterprise architecture, the organization describes its current business, data, application and technology architecture (as-is) and the target architecture (to-be). The differences between them are the gaps, and closing those gaps becomes the list of issues and the roadmap for the transition.
Answer (a)
Why not others:
- •(b) Core competence analysis — identifies the company's distinctive strengths that competitors cannot easily copy; it does not compare current and ideal states
- •(c) Value chain analysis — breaks the business into primary and support activities to see where value and cost arise
- •(d) Pareto analysis — ranks items by frequency or amount on a Pareto chart to find the vital few, as in ABC analysis
Key rule: As-is versus to-be is gap analysis; the gap is exactly the work the improvement plan must cover.
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