An architect reviews a customer's deployed solution and concludes it has ample headroom for their foreseeable needs. What follows for an expansion proposal?
A.
A proposal should still be prepared, framed around future growth the customer may experience.
B.
The finding should be kept internal, since it weakens the account position.
C.
A proposal should be prepared for the newer generation of the deployed offering.
D.
There is no case for one, and saying so is the right advice.
Option D is correct. Substantial measured headroom and no new relevant requirement do not justify expansion. Advise optimisation or routine monitoring instead of proposing extra capacity simply because a new generation is available. Executive-facing solution proposals must connect recommendation, justification, expected benefits and delivery approach. Architectural assumptions and trade-offs should remain transparent, and the plan should show how the customer will accept each material milestone. The remaining choices introduce assumptions that the customer has not authorised, or omit a material operational condition that must be satisfied before commitment. Make the customer-facing trade-off explicit: what the recommended approach satisfies, which alternatives impose unnecessary constraints, and what evidence confirms the decision. This also permits the customer to approve any residual risk knowingly. A strong expansion proposal begins with evidence from the installed solution and a clearly described future operating state. Quantify the additional business outcome, delivery dependencies, customer obligations, resource impact and lifecycle consequences rather than listing more products.
Study Guide Reference: HPE Edge-to-Cloud Fundamentals — Prepare a Proposal to Grow an Installed Solution or Expand to Other Solutions; Presenting an HPE Solution.
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