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You serve as the Senior Project Manager at Dotcoiss Inc. Your company has begun a software project using configuration management and has completed 70% of it. You must ensure that the network infrastructure devices and networking standards used in this project are installed according to the requirements in its detailed project design documentation. Which of the following procedures will you use to accomplish this task?

A Physical configuration audit
B Configuration control
C Functional configuration audit
D Configuration identification

Explanation

A physical configuration audit verifies that an installed or as-built configuration item conforms to the approved technical and detailed design documentation. It is therefore the appropriate procedure for confirming that network infrastructure devices and networking standards have been installed as specified. A functional configuration audit focuses on functional and performance characteristics, while configuration control manages changes and configuration identification defines configuration items.

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NASA Software Engineering Handbook — Configuration Audits

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