Module 6 Assessment

10 questions. Pass mark 80 percent (configurable). Unlimited retakes. Your best score is kept on this device.

1. 1. A team presents a single overall readiness score of "amber" for a product line. What is the strongest objection to this as a position?

   Amber is too pessimistic and should be reported as green.It collapses five distinct dimensions into one figure, which hides the case where one dimension is strong and another is weak, and that mismatch is usually the fact that matters.A readiness position should never use colours.It should have been produced by an external auditor rather than the internal team.
2. 2. What makes a readiness position defensible rather than merely asserted?

   It is signed off by a senior sponsor.It cites evidence specific enough that someone else could check each claim.It is expressed as a percentage.It matches the position given in a vendor questionnaire.
3. 3. Two candidate gaps exist: "our data is generally incomplete" and "battery composition data has never been requested from the one supplier who holds it." Which should be named as the biggest gap, and why?

   The first, because it is broader and therefore more serious.The second, because it is specific and evidenced, so someone else could check it and act on it; the first is an impression, not a position.Neither; gaps should not be ranked against each other.The first, because supplier-related gaps are always lower priority than internal ones.
4. 4. Why is a comfortable result across all five dimensions treated with suspicion rather than relief?

   Because comfortable results are always fabricated.Because it usually means the audit was too general, and a real gap only surfaces when the assessment works at the level of the individual attribute.Because readiness positions are required to identify at least one weakness.Because comfortable results cannot be presented to a decision maker.
5. 5. A readiness position shows the data and source assessment is still incomplete, but a stakeholder wants to move straight to choosing a technology platform. What is the correct sequencing argument?

   Agree, since technology decisions can run in parallel with any other stage.Decline, because a platform chosen before the data assessment is finished encodes decisions nobody has made with evidence, and typically has to be redone once the assessment completes.Agree, provided the platform vendor is well established in the market.Decline permanently, since technology should never be discussed until every other stage is finished.
6. 6. Given the same three candidate actions, any ordering of them will produce the same outcome, since eventually all three get done.

   True: order only affects how quickly the work is completed, not its quality.False: the wrong order can force an earlier action to be redone once a later action reveals what it should have assumed, so the order is itself a technical judgement.
7. 7. A programme wants to protect a supplier relationship's long lead time by sending a data request as early as possible, before its own attribute inventory is finished. What is the risk?

   There is no risk; earlier is always better for anything with a long lead time.The request will be generic rather than bounded, producing an answer that cannot be checked or used, and spending the relationship on a question the supplier cannot usefully answer.The supplier will refuse to respond to any request sent before a delegated act is published.The request will only be a risk if it is sent in writing.
8. 8. What should typically precede a specific supplier data request?

   Selection of the technology platform that will store the response.An internal attribute inventory identifying exactly which fields are missing.A public commitment to a completion date.A finished governance policy covering all future products.
9. 9. A drafted brief names all three sequenced actions in one sentence and does not state what decision is being requested. What two changes would most improve it?

   Add more technical detail about each action, and remove the data gap sentence to keep the tone positive.Narrow the action sentence to just the first action, and add a sentence stating the specific decision needed.Combine the known and unknown facts into a single sentence, and lengthen the brief to two pages for completeness.Remove the product description sentence, since the reader already knows the product.
10. 10. To avoid alarming a sponsor, a brief describes the biggest data gap as "some data quality issues remain." What is the effect on the brief?

    None; softened language is more appropriate for a senior audience.It undermines the brief, because the sentence naming the gap is the one the whole brief depends on being specific and honest, and vague language removes the evidence that makes the ask credible.It strengthens the brief by keeping the tone consistent with sentence one.It has no effect provided sentence five still states a clear decision.