Company A is a nation-wide leader in commercial demolition. Having just celebrated its 100th year of operations, the company decided to begin doing work internationally. The current system used for reporting company finances is unable to keep pace with the potential demands of doing work in geographically dispersed locations. Therefore, the company decided to replace its client- based Profit & Loss (P&L) reporting system with a more robust, web-based system. This will ensure transparency across the organization and enable better decision making. The business analyst (BA) at Company A has recently completed several rounds of elicitation to determine the requirements for the new, web-based system. Over 1250 requirements were elicited. An initial Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) has been drafted, and a subset of the RTM can be seen below:

The risk associated with Requirement ID F-P0001 is HIGH. The BA has gone back to the Crew Chief to determine why this requirement's risk is HIGH. The Crew Chief stated that it was based on an assumption. Which of the following assumptions would make this requirement's risk high?

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Company A is a nation-wide leader in commercial demolition. Having just celebrated its 100th year of operations, the company decided to begin doing work internationally. The current system used for reporting company finances is unable to keep pace with the potential demands of doing work in geographically dispersed locations. Therefore, the company decided to replace its client- based Profit & Loss (P&L) reporting system with a more robust, web-based system. This will ensure transparency across the organization and enable better decision making. The business analyst (BA) at Company A has recently completed several rounds of elicitation to determine the requirements for the new, web-based system. Over 1250 requirements were elicited. An initial Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) has been drafted, and a subset of the RTM can be seen below:

The risk associated with Requirement ID F-P0001 is HIGH. The BA has gone back to the Crew Chief to determine why this requirement's risk is HIGH. The Crew Chief stated that it was based on an assumption. Which of the following assumptions would make this requirement's risk high?

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C. The system will be inaccessible in remote locations. A web-based system depends entirely on reliable internet connectivity, which cannot be guaranteed across all geographically dispersed or remote international sites where Company A operates demolition projects. This assumption directly threatens the system's core value proposition of organization-wide financial transparency, making it a critical risk or constraint that must be surfaced and managed early in the project.

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A. The users will require specialized training. Specialized training is a change management consideration, not a structural environmental assumption about whether the system can function at a given location.

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B. The web-based interface will be complex. Interface complexity is a design quality attribute determined during development, not an assumption about the deployment environment or connectivity constraints.

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D. The cost of the solution outweighs its benefit. Cost-benefit justification is a project initiation concern already resolved by the decision to proceed with the replacement, not a system-specific operational assumption.

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