IPA IP 2021 Question 10
A question IPA Japan published in 令和3年度 ITパスポート試験 公開問題 問10, translated into English. ITPEC is based on the same exams.
Same question on ITPEC: Oct 2022 Q85
Which of the following is the appropriate explanation of a technology road map?
Explanation
The technologies expected to be realized in a field, with their implementation timeline — that is a technology roadmap.
A technology roadmap lays out, along a time axis, which technologies in a field will be developed or acquired and when, linked to the products and market needs they serve. Companies draw one from their business strategy to decide R&D investment; governments and industry bodies publish them to share a common view of where a field is heading. It is revised as markets and technologies change.
Answer (d)
Why not others:
- •(a) — describing the technology needed for a shortest-route search in car navigation is the design of one function; it has no timeline of a field's future technologies
- •(b) — a list of the software technologies used in developing a business system describes the present development environment, not the future
- •(c) — the technologies staff should learn for each career path belong to a skill map or training plan for human resources
Key rule: A roadmap is forward-looking and time-based: it answers which technology, by when, and for what product or need.
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