HCD.9:5.1 - Redirect a Highest-NPV Answer to the Tested Configuration

In the release case, the learner’s first answer selects external module B because its stipulated NPV is highest. Ordinary references and calculation tools are permitted. The financial calculation remains useful, but the answer relies on a vendor report without checking which firmware was tested.

The teacher does not replace the answer. The feedback is one discriminating question: “Which configuration does the report support?” The learner finds that the report concerns FW7 while the required release uses FW8, marks B as unsupported for that use, preserves the financial comparison as conditional, and requests FW8-compatible evidence from the report’s supplier and withholds reliance on B until that evidence is obtained and checked. This completes the local correction; comparison with other modules requires their own compatible evidence.

The retry changes the condition. A compatible HW3/FW8/SCHED2 report and 24 test hours now support ten changes in three homogeneous batches, which require 23 hours, while demand of twelve leaves a continuing queue. Repeating the earlier refusal is wrong. If the available time is then 22 hours, promising ten changes becomes unsupported. The episode shows whether the learner changed configuration and resource checking under the recorded support; it does not yet establish unfamiliar transfer or retention.