Resolve Incomplete Deployment Plan Request
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To start the case study - To display the first question in this case study, click the Next button. Use the buttons in the left pane to explore the content of the case study before you answer the questions. Clicking these buttons displays information such as business requirements, existing environment, and problem statements. If the case study has an All Information tab, note that the information displayed is identical to the information displayed on the subsequent tabs. When you are ready to answer a question, click the Question button to return to the question. Background - VanArsdel, Ltd. builds custom homes. The company has one Azure tenant and uses multiple systems to manage the sales, construction, and warranties of the homes. The company has three departments: sales, construction, and warranty. Sales, contract, and warranty information is not shared among the departments. The owner of VanArsdel, Ltd. requires a consolidated system that the company can use to track each home’s progress. Sales - Current environment - • Company employees use Microsoft Outlook for all communications. • Company employees use Microsoft Word to create sales contracts. • Employees in the sales department are frequently in different locations and work different hours from each other. • Employees in the sales department use a Contracts team in Microsoft Teams to collaborate. • The company uses a third-party marketing tool to update contacts every day. Requirements - • Contacts’ names must be formatted before they are imported from the third-party marketing tool. • The company must retain contracts for five years. • The company requires that the sales department display the All Contracts view in Microsoft Teams. • All contract information must be stored in the All Contracts view. • Contracts must not be lost if a device is lost or stolen. Issues - • Employees in the sales department store contracts on their local computers. • The construction team receives a copy of a contract only when the sale of a home is complete. Construction - Current environment - • Employees in the construction department use Project Online to manage schedules. • Employees in the construction department use Microsoft Excel to manage costs of projects. • The main supplier of construction materials provides an API to the company. The company uses the API to manage suppliers for projects in near real time. Requirements - • Employees in the construction department must be able to demonstrate how their work is performed rather than document their process. • The company requires that project schedules be created less than a week after a contract is signed. • A field must sum up the costs of the materials. Issues - • Employees in the construction department are unable to schedule resources because they are not informed of future projects. • Employees in the construction department currently enter basic project information manually for each software application. Warranty - Current environment - • Employees in the warranty department use Excel to track project issues and resolutions. • The company requires that employees in the warranty department meet with each other in person to discuss their job roles. Requirements - • The company requires that warranty claims be resolved in less than a month. • The company requires that all claims be entered in the system along with their related issues. • If a claim is found to be invalid, the company requires that the claim and its related issues be deleted. Issue - • Employees in the warranty department report that they are frequently sent to homes without knowledge of what is in scope for the project. Requirements - • The new system must use the development and production environments. • The development environment must be the master of all changes. • All table changes must be added ta solution. Changes to the solution must not be allowed to be made in the production environment. • Each department must have a custom app. Employees must be able to access only their department’s app. • All sales, contract, and warranty data must be shared among the departments. • The project manager must be solely responsible for creating and owning the deployment plan for projects. • All projects must run by using the Agile methodology. • The deployment plan must include the environment setup, training plan, rollout strategy, and deployment support. Issue - The IT manager reports that the deployment plan is not complete. You need to resolve the deployment plan issue. What should you request?
Community Votes
100% of anonymous learners picked answer B. Votes are pick records left by other test-takers — they are not the verified answer.
Community Insight
The question tests deployment plan completeness and ownership, trapping those who assign tasks to the IT manager instead of the solely responsible project manager.
A complete deployment plan requires a testing plan, which is missing in the VanArsdel case study. This page establishes that the project manager must add the testing plan to resolve the incomplete deployment plan issue.
Choosing A (IT manager adds data migration) because it is a valid deployment component, but ignoring the requirement that the project manager solely owns the plan.
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Expert Analysis
Why the Answer Is Correct
The case study explicitly states that the project manager is solely responsible for creating and owning the deployment plan. A standard go-live deployment plan includes environment setup, testing, training, data migration, rollout strategy, and support. Since the stated requirements only list environment setup, training, rollout strategy, and support, the testing plan is the missing component that the project manager must add to make the plan complete.Why the Other Options Are Wrong
Options A and C are incorrect because they assign deployment plan tasks to the IT manager, which directly violates the requirement that the project manager solely owns the plan. Option D is incorrect because while risk assessments are part of overall project management, a testing plan is a specific, mandatory component of a deployment/go-live plan that was explicitly omitted from the requirements list.Community Comment Notes
Commenters correctly identified that the project manager's sole ownership eliminates the IT manager options, as ryanzombie pointed out: "the IT Manager can't contribute directly." Lenny001 also highlighted the standard elements of a deployment plan from Microsoft Learn, including "Types of testing" and "Data migration," but correctly concluded that the PM must be the one to add the missing testing plan.Official Reference
Exam Strategy
Identify the owner of the artifact in question before selecting an option; if the project manager solely owns the deployment plan, eliminate any options assigning work to the IT manager. Then, compare the listed deployment plan components against standard methodology to find the missing piece.