You work as the Senior Project manager in Dotcoiss Inc. Your company has started a software
project using configuration management and has completed 70% of it. You need to ensure that the
network infrastructure devices and networking standards used in this project are installed in
accordance with the requirements of its detailed project design documentation. Which of the
following procedures will you employ to accomplish the task?
A.
Configuration identification
B.
Configuration control
C.
Functional configuration audit
D.
Physical configuration audit
Explanation:
Physical Configuration Audit (PCA) is one of the practices used in Software
Configuration Management for Software Configuration Auditing. The purpose of the software PCA
is to ensure that the design and reference documentation is consistent with the as-built software
product. PCA checks and matches the really implemented layout with the documented layout.
Software Configuration Management for Software Configuration Auditing. FCA occurs either atdelivery or at the moment of effecting the change. A Functional Configuration Audit ensures that
Configuration control is a procedure of the Configuration management. Configuration control is a
set of processes and approval stages required to change a configuration item’s attributes and to
re-baseline them. It supports the change of the functional and physical attributes of software at
various points in time, and performs systematic control of changes to the identified attributes.
define every aspect of a configuration item. A configuration item is a product (hardware and/or
software) that has an end-user purpose. These attributes are recorded in configuration
documentation and baselined. Baselining an attribute forces formal configuration change control
processes to be effected in the event that these attributes are changed.