Reviewing a design, an architect concludes it meets every stated requirement, but that one requirement appears to rest on a misunderstanding that will cost the customer significantly. What should the review do?
A.
Record the design as deficient, since it will cost the customer more than necessary.
B.
Record that the design conforms, and raise the requirement separately as a question.
C.
Leave the requirement alone, since reviewing the brief, or amending it, is out of scope.
D.
Revise the requirement and re-review the design against the corrected version.
Option B is correct. The design can conform to a requirement even when that requirement appears unnecessarily expensive. Record compliance accurately while raising a separate clarification for the customer to decide whether to revise the requirement. Architecture review is most useful when it identifies latent risks before procurement or deployment. Evaluate sizing, network paths, interoperability, resiliency, lifecycle support, documented assumptions and mandatory constraints, keeping actual noncompliance distinct from accepted residual risk. The rejected alternatives do not establish the necessary combination of compliance, operational suitability and technical feasibility stated in the scenario. Before customer commitment, validate the recommendation against workload measurements, contractual support boundaries and operational readiness. The selected architecture must be achievable under the constraints actually described, not merely plausible as a product configuration. A formal solution review should be evidence based. If data or requirements are ambiguous, record the issue and its consequence; if something is demonstrably noncompliant, require remediation; if the design meets the agreed standard, do not quietly rewrite that standard.
Study Guide Reference: HPE Edge-to-Cloud Fundamentals — Review an HPE Edge-to-Cloud Solution Based on Customer Needs; Design Considerations; Architecting Methodology.
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