Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE 400-007) Official Cert Guide

Appendix D

Memory Tables Answers

Chapter 2

Table 2-3 Business Risk vs. Reward vs. Cost Analysis

Design Decision	Associated Cost	Design Complexity	Business Risk	Business Reward
Single points of failure	Low; no additional cost for redundancy.	Low	Very high; outages are more likely to occur that would directly bring the business offline, which would make the business lose revenue and market reputation.	Low; initial cost savings.
No single points of failure	Medium; the solution cost increases to allow for redundant components to mitigate any single points of failure.	High	Low; the solution has been designed to allow for single failures to occur that would still allow the business to function and make money.	High; the initial cost is ...