IPA IP 2025 Question 20

Information technology trends in the field of the business to be computerized — while drawing up the computerization concept the company is still deciding what to build, so it gathers what technology could do.

In the planning process the orderer first forms the computerization concept: it identifies the management issues and business needs, studies the business environment, and investigates the information technology trends that could help, including the solutions and examples vendors can offer (often through an RFI). It then turns the concept into a computerization plan with the scope, schedule, budget and priorities. Only after that is the system procured: vendors receive an RFP and reply with proposals and estimates.

Answer (b)

Why not others:

• •(a) — an estimate of the development cost based on the computerization plan needs the plan to exist; it comes later, with vendors’ proposals in procurement
• •(c) — the ordering company’s own role in building the system is decided and stated by the orderer itself, in its plan and RFP, not collected from vendors
• •(d) — the qualifications of a vendor’s engineers matter when proposals are evaluated and a vendor is selected, not when the concept is formed

Key rule: Planning runs concept (issues, environment, technology trends) → plan (scope, cost, schedule) → procurement (RFI, RFP, proposals, vendor selection); what the orderer asks vendors for depends on the stage.

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