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Difficulty: MediumChange Management Processes

A systems engineer has successfully validated a critical database hotfix for an enterprise Electronic Health Record (EHR) system within a sandbox staging environment. Before the patch can be deployed into the live production environment, the engineer must formally initiate the organization's change management workflow. Which of the following procedures must the engineer complete BEFORE submitting the change proposal to the Change Advisory Board (CAB)?

  1. Document the scope of change, perform a risk analysis, and author a detailed rollback plan.Answer
  2. B
    Deploy the hotfix during an unannounced maintenance window and perform post-implementation testing.
  3. C
    Broadcast a critical service outage notification to all enterprise end users announcing immediate system downtime.
  4. D
    Execute the database hotfix on the primary production node while keeping the secondary node as an unpatched fallback.

Answer

Document the scope of change, perform a risk analysis, and author a detailed rollback plan.
In standard ITIL and CompTIA change management workflows, creating a formal change request requires documenting the purpose and scope of the change, conducting a risk assessment, drafting a step-by-step implementation plan, and detailing a rollback (backout) plan prior to seeking Change Advisory Board (CAB) approval.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the initial phase of the ITIL/CompTIA change management process.
Recognize that change preparation requires defining the exact scope, business risk, and backout steps.
The Change Advisory Board (CAB) requires a complete change proposal package to evaluate risk versus reward before granting deployment approval.
2
Evaluate the mandatory documentation required before CAB submission.
Formulate risk analysis, scope definition, and rollback instructions.
Without a documented rollback plan and risk assessment, the CAB cannot evaluate the impact or safety of the proposed modification.

Key Concept

Change Management Request Preparation Phase
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