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Trade-off studies

Trade-off studies

- [Brad] Welcome back to Cybrary's ISSEP course. I'm your instructor, Brad Rhodes. Let's talk about trade-off studies. So here's what we're going to cover in this video. We're going to talk about the two parts of trade-offs. We're going to talk about considerations you should have in trade-offs, and they're probably going to be familiar to you. And we're going to do a quick example of a trade-off. So there are two parts when we talk about trade-offs. One is the alternatives, and those are the choices between, say, a technical solution and a non-technical solution. And you might say, "Well Brad, alternatives and solutions sound like pretty much the same word or the same definition," but they're not. So once you have major choice and alternatives, then we go and look to the solutions. What are the means we're going to do to solve a particular problem or issue that we have? And so you have to make the choice of alternatives first. You have to do that course of action analysis, if you…

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