A retailer has received a proposal and its board has approved it in principle. What should the proposal already have told them about what happens next? (Choose two.)

• A. The internal approval route the board should follow to release funding.
• B. How the work is sequenced, and roughly when each part lands.
• C. What the customer itself has to provide or decide for the work to start.
• D. The contractual terms under which the work will be performed.
• E. What the engineers carrying out each stage are called.

A customer running workloads at edge sites, in its data centre and in public cloud wants to manage them coherently. Which capabilities does that require? (Choose two.)

• A. Policies that can be defined once and applied consistently across the locations.
• B. Local administrators present at each edge site during working hours.
• C. A single physical network connecting all locations directly.
• D. A view of the whole estate that does not depend on which location a workload sits in.
• E. Identical hardware at every location, so that management behaves the same way everywhere.

An architect wants to propose expanding a customer's deployed solution. What evidence makes the proposal most credible to the customer?

• A. Case studies from organisations of a comparable size in the same sector.
• B. A summary of the capabilities the customer has not yet adopted from across the wider portfolio.
• C. Observations from the customer's own running solution that show where it is under pressure.
• D. Benchmarks showing how the newer offerings perform against the deployed generation.

A customer needs a recommendation within a week to meet an internal deadline. Two requirements are clear, a third is described only vaguely, and the person who could clarify it is unavailable until after the deadline.
How should the architect proceed? (Choose two.)

• A. Recommend against the two clear requirements and state the assumption made about the third.
• B. Present several options without a recommendation, letting the customer choose.
• C. Decline to recommend until the third requirement has been clarified by its owner.
• D. Identify what would change in the recommendation if the assumption turns out to be wrong.
• E. Recommend the most capable option available, so that any interpretation is covered.

Across which stages of a solution's life can HPE Services be engaged? (Choose three.)

• A. When the customer is preparing to hand the solution to a different internal team.
• B. When a fault has been raised and the customer wants it worked jointly.
• C. While the solution is being planned, before anything is built.
• D. Throughout ongoing operation once the solution is live.
• E. During deployment and transition into service.