IPA IP 2021 Question 43
A question IPA Japan published in 令和3年度 ITパスポート試験 公開問題 問43, translated into English. ITPEC is based on the same exams.
In a project in which Company A newly develops a system, the development of the system is performed in the order of system requirements definition, design, programming, integration test, system test, and operational test. Company A has concluded a contract for work with Company B, an external vendor, with design, programming, and integration test as the scope of the outsourcing. Between which process and which process is it appropriate to perform the acceptance inspection that Company A carries out?
Explanation
Between integration test and system test — acceptance inspection checks what the vendor delivers, so it comes right after the last process in the vendor's contracted scope.
Under a contract for work, Company B undertakes to complete the work in its scope (design, programming and integration test) and deliver the result. Company A then inspects the delivered system against the agreed specifications and accepts it before using it in its own processes. The contracted scope ends with the integration test, and the next process, the system test, is Company A's own, so the acceptance inspection falls between the two.
Answer (c)
Why not others:
- •(a) — system requirements definition is Company A's own work and the vendor has not started yet; nothing has been delivered to inspect
- •(b) — programming and integration test are both inside Company B's contracted scope; the vendor's work is not finished at this point
- •(d) — the system test is Company A's own process; the deliverables must be inspected and accepted when they are handed over, before Company A tests the system with them
Key rule: Acceptance inspection takes place when outsourced work is delivered: right after the last process of the contracted scope, before the ordering party's own next process.
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