A customer is planning a new virtualization project and requests assistance with preparing a proposal for his management team. Which financial information can be generated using the Alinean toolset?…

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• Alicensing costs
• Bpayback period
• Ccash flow
• Dbill or materials
• Eroles and responsibilities

• A
  7% (4)
• B
  88% (49)
• D
  2% (1)
• E
  4% (2)

Explanation

Alinean is a business value assessment tool designed to help IT professionals build financial justifications for technology investments - its core output is the kind of financial analysis that convinces executives to approve projects. Payback period (B) quantifies how quickly an investment recoups its cost, and cash flow (C) shows the projected net inflows and outflows over time; both are standard Alinean report outputs used in ROI/TCO business cases.

Licensing costs (A) are an input to Alinean - you enter them so the tool can calculate financial outputs - making A a distractor. Bill of materials (D) is a procurement/ordering document, not a financial analysis output, so it falls outside Alinean's scope. Roles and responsibilities (E) is a project management concept with no connection to financial toolsets like Alinean.

Memory tip: Think of Alinean as an "executive pitch generator." Executives care about "When do we break even?" (payback period) and "What does money look like month-to-month?" (cash flow) - those are the outputs. Everything else in the list is either an input, a procurement artifact, or an HR concept.

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