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A large insurance company wants to buy a new claims processing system or upgrade one of its two existing system. Each year the claims department is given a $3.5 million budget to spend. Time is of the
The correct answer is C. Scalability. The scenario centers on a claims system that must grow to support new regulatory features not currently available, making scalability the key non-functional requirement driving the selection decision.
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A large insurance company wants to buy a new claims processing system or upgrade one of its two existing system. Each year the claims department is given a $3.5 million budget to spend. Time is of the essence since there are tome regulatory charges that will be coming the following year that will require several features that currently neither one of the two claims System currently support. There are eight stakeholders involved in this initiative. There are local to where the claim system are managed, while five are located across the country. The business analyst (BA) struggled to get all stakeholders to agree on the desired features but ultimately got agreement on ten identified key features for the new claims system. The BA was able to build a current state and future state process model which included all ten key features. System a processes 75% of the company's claims. It is 5 years old and the claim processors love it because it is easy to use. However it must go offline for two hours each day. The code is very module so it does have flexibility to be modified. To upgrade system A to have all ten features it would cost $5 million. System A would be at capacity if it were to process all of the company's claims. System B process 25% of the company's claims. It is an older mainframe system, but rarely goes offline. It could easily handle double the number of claims that system A processes. However it has a lot of legacy code and would cost $6 million to upgrade. Both system have some of the tem desired key features. But neither system has all ten. The cost to buy a new system would be $7 million. Below is the estimated cost for each feature in priority order. During elicitation the BA must understand the non-functional requirements. What non functional requirement does System B support over System A?
Options
- AUsability
- BCompatibility
- CScalability
- DCompliance
How the community answered
(49 responses)- A12% (6)
- B6% (3)
- C78% (38)
- D4% (2)
Why each option
The scenario centers on a claims system that must grow to support new regulatory features not currently available, making scalability the key non-functional requirement driving the selection decision.
Usability focuses on how easily end users can interact with the system, which is not the primary concern raised by incoming regulations requiring new features.
Compatibility addresses how well a system integrates with other platforms or standards, but the scenario's main driver is the need to support net-new regulatory capabilities, not integration gaps.
Scalability refers to a system's capacity to expand and accommodate increased demands, including new functional requirements driven by regulatory change. Because the regulatory updates arriving the following year require features that neither existing system supports, the organization must select or build a solution that can scale to meet evolving compliance and operational needs without repeated overhaul. This makes scalability the defining system quality attribute for the initiative.
Compliance describes a regulatory or policy obligation the business must meet, not a technical system quality attribute that defines how the system must behave to satisfy that obligation.
Concept tested: Non-functional requirements identification - scalability
Source: https://www.iiba.org/standards-and-resources/babok/
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