OpenCyber Academy
Rapid course · Lesson 9 · English
Course code: OCA-005Lesson 09: OCA-005-A009

Next quarter has not moved the exclusion

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Lesson map

Lesson 09. Map, example, EX063.

flowchart TD
  S["First scope excludes case management and the roster"] --> N["Review named for next quarter"]
  N --> Q{"Does the file date that quarter as arrived?"}
  Q -->|No| K["Keep the case-database row and leave it closed"]
  Q -->|Yes| R["A dated review would be a new page"]

A note about later is not a page that says later has started.

Logical drawing

included now
    appointment portal, scheduling database, identity provider, backup service
excluded for now
    case management and the volunteer roster
    review next quarter
listing
    case database row stays, owner Casework
        |
        +-- the row is not a key
        +-- no suspicious account is invented
        +-- no calendar date is supplied

Learning outcomes

After this chapter, you should be able to:

  1. Leave case management and the volunteer roster outside the first scope.
  2. Keep the case-database row without opening it.
  3. Refuse an undated claim that next quarter has arrived.

9.1 The exclusion is still written in the present

The first scope covers the appointment portal, its scheduling database, the identity provider and the backup service. Both case management and the volunteer roster remain outside that inclusion list, pending the review the scope postponed. A classmate says the course has gone on long enough that the quarter must have turned, and opens the case database because its row is in the listing. The file never dates that turn. The row stays so the identity provider's support of every service remains visible, including a service outside the scope. The engineer does not open the database and does not invent a suspicious account to report. There is still nothing new to hand to that system's owner.

9.2 Worked example

Lesson table; scroll horizontally to read all columns →

Proposal Clock it assumes Decision
Keep case management excluded The note says next quarter Accept
"Enough lessons have passed, so open the case database." No date Refuse
Delete the case-database row The listing's job Refuse
Report a suspicious account No such account in this file Do not invent one

Synthetic case. The quarter's arrival is not given a date. Casework remains the printed owner label, not a person.

Errors and limits

Holding the exclusion does not cancel the later review. It refuses to pretend the review has already been held.

Apply

Worked answers

EX063. The exclusion stands because the file does not date the new quarter. Keep the row. Do not open the database. Do not invent a suspicious account.