Hi,<br><br>I'm not claiming any authority whatsoever in this as I don't even teach the subject, but it seems to me that the two terms being used ("scope" and "solutions requirements") equate in meaning to the more generally used terms "Project Scope" and "Solution Scope", and that "scope" on its own is ambiguous (and thus Mark's interpretation is correct if "scope" includes product scope.)<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_%28project_management%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_%28project_management%29</a><br><br>I realise this doesn't answer the question about the exam but it might help tighten up the PM terminology used into the future. (or perhaps there is a project management lexicon defined for the course, in which case my comments can be disregarded)<br>
<br>BTW I really enjoy the level of professional support within this group and I have learned a lot that can be directly applied to the courses I teach, even though the content is different. We all have similar challenges, it seems.<br>
<br>Cheers<br>Ken<br>DoE Tasmania<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Mark KELLY <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all. I've had several good people write to suggest that the answer to Q16 should be B instead of A because of what the study design says about requirements and scope.<div>
<br></div><div>While B parrots the words of the study design (inappropriately, IMO, since it's using the <b>present</b> tense to describe a <b>future</b> product, which is confusing) option A, to my way of thinking, better describes the answer.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It all depends on the difference between solutions requirements and scope... the study design insists they are two separate things but does not explain how they are functionally different.</div><div><br>
</div><div>We had this discussion before the exam: what is the difference between specifying solution requirements and specifying scope? We never got a good answer to that one, and the exam question is leveraging that exact point of confusion.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So I'll throw it up in the air again: if you fully specify solution requirements, how is that different to specifying scope? Are they not effectively identical? In which case both options A and B are correct.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all">
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