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Digitalisation Advanced stage test

No governed timed route exists for this stage yet, so this page gives you an honest untimed stage-end check built from the published bank.

Format Untimed self-check
Questions 12
Best time to use it After the stage modules and practice

Question 1

What is a target operating model (TOM) and why is it important?

  1. A model of the current state of IT systems
  2. A future-state design describing how an organisation will deliver its strategy through people, processes, technology, and governance, providing a clear destination for transformation
  3. A financial model for budget allocation
  4. A model that only technology teams need to understand
Reveal answer

Correct answer: A future-state design describing how an organisation will deliver its strategy through people, processes, technology, and governance, providing a clear destination for transformation

Question 2

How does a digital roadmap differ from a project plan?

  1. A roadmap is less detailed and therefore less useful
  2. A digital roadmap communicates strategic direction, sequencing, and dependencies across multiple initiatives over time, while a project plan details tasks and resources for a single initiative
  3. They are the same thing at different levels of detail
  4. A project plan is more strategic than a roadmap
Reveal answer

Correct answer: A digital roadmap communicates strategic direction, sequencing, and dependencies across multiple initiatives over time, while a project plan details tasks and resources for a single initiative

Question 3

What are the key challenges of cross-organisational data sharing?

  1. The only challenge is internet bandwidth
  2. Challenges include data governance alignment, semantic interoperability, trust frameworks, regulatory compliance (GDPR), security, consent management, and agreeing on shared standards
  3. Data sharing has no significant challenges
  4. The main challenge is choosing which database to use
Reveal answer

Correct answer: Challenges include data governance alignment, semantic interoperability, trust frameworks, regulatory compliance (GDPR), security, consent management, and agreeing on shared standards

Question 4

What is a platform ecosystem and what makes it valuable?

  1. A collection of servers in a data centre
  2. A network where a core platform enables third-party producers and consumers to create and exchange value, generating network effects where the platform becomes more valuable as more participants join
  3. A software development framework
  4. An ecosystem is the same as a marketplace
Reveal answer

Correct answer: A network where a core platform enables third-party producers and consumers to create and exchange value, generating network effects where the platform becomes more valuable as more participants join

Question 5

What is vendor lock-in and how can organisations mitigate it?

  1. Vendor lock-in is always beneficial because it simplifies support
  2. Vendor lock-in occurs when switching costs make it prohibitively expensive to change providers. Mitigation includes using open standards, abstraction layers, multi-cloud strategies, and contractual protections
  3. Lock-in only affects small organisations
  4. Using cloud services automatically prevents lock-in
Reveal answer

Correct answer: Vendor lock-in occurs when switching costs make it prohibitively expensive to change providers. Mitigation includes using open standards, abstraction layers, multi-cloud strategies, and contractual protections

Question 6

How should organisations measure the return on investment (ROI) of digitalisation?

  1. Only by counting cost savings from headcount reduction
  2. Through a balanced view including financial metrics (cost savings, revenue growth), operational metrics (cycle time, error rates), customer metrics (satisfaction, retention), and strategic metrics (time to market, innovation capacity)
  3. ROI cannot be measured for digital investments
  4. By comparing the number of new technologies adopted
Reveal answer

Correct answer: Through a balanced view including financial metrics (cost savings, revenue growth), operational metrics (cycle time, error rates), customer metrics (satisfaction, retention), and strategic metrics (time to market, innovation capacity)

Question 7

What is the role of change management in digital transformation?

  1. Change management is about managing server changes
  2. Change management addresses the people side of transformation, helping individuals and teams adopt new ways of working through communication, training, leadership alignment, and stakeholder engagement
  3. It is only needed when employees resist change
  4. Change management is the same as project management
Reveal answer

Correct answer: Change management addresses the people side of transformation, helping individuals and teams adopt new ways of working through communication, training, leadership alignment, and stakeholder engagement

Question 8

What is a trust framework in the context of digital identity and data sharing?

  1. A software library for encryption
  2. A set of agreed rules, standards, and governance mechanisms that enable different organisations to trust each other's digital identity verification and data exchange processes
  3. A performance testing framework
  4. Trust frameworks are only used by banks
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Correct answer: A set of agreed rules, standards, and governance mechanisms that enable different organisations to trust each other's digital identity verification and data exchange processes

Question 9

What is the difference between a bimodal and a continuous delivery approach to digital change?

  1. Bimodal is always better because it separates innovation from operations
  2. Bimodal runs two separate speeds (stable core and agile innovation), while continuous delivery aims to flow all change through a single, adaptive delivery pipeline with appropriate governance for different risk levels
  3. Continuous delivery means deploying without any testing
  4. They are identical approaches with different names
Reveal answer

Correct answer: Bimodal runs two separate speeds (stable core and agile innovation), while continuous delivery aims to flow all change through a single, adaptive delivery pipeline with appropriate governance for different risk levels

Question 10

What is a digital maturity assessment?

  1. A test of how old an organisation's technology is
  2. A structured evaluation of an organisation's digital capabilities across dimensions like strategy, culture, technology, data, and operations, identifying strengths and areas for improvement
  3. A certification required by regulators
  4. An assessment of employee computer skills
Reveal answer

Correct answer: A structured evaluation of an organisation's digital capabilities across dimensions like strategy, culture, technology, data, and operations, identifying strengths and areas for improvement

Question 11

What is the relationship between ITIL 4 and digital service management?

  1. ITIL 4 is outdated and irrelevant to digital services
  2. ITIL 4 provides a service management framework that has evolved to support digital delivery through concepts like the service value system, guiding principles, and value streams that integrate with agile and DevOps
  3. ITIL 4 only covers incident management
  4. ITIL 4 replaces the need for any other framework
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Correct answer: ITIL 4 provides a service management framework that has evolved to support digital delivery through concepts like the service value system, guiding principles, and value streams that integrate with agile and DevOps

Question 12

How should legacy systems be addressed in a digital strategy?

  1. All legacy systems should be replaced immediately
  2. Through a considered approach that assesses business value, risk, and cost of each system, then applies strategies like wrapping (APIs), strangling (gradual replacement), retiring, or retaining based on context
  3. Legacy systems should never be changed
  4. Only systems older than 10 years count as legacy
Reveal answer

Correct answer: Through a considered approach that assesses business value, risk, and cost of each system, then applies strategies like wrapping (APIs), strangling (gradual replacement), retiring, or retaining based on context

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