Which activity belongs in the connectivity workstream of a modernization plan, rather than in application development?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Connectivity's infrastructure and governance work, so you set up secured network paths and access mechanisms between IBM Z, CI/CD tooling, repositories, and runtimes. It sits alongside development, not inside it.
Full Explanation
The correct answer is establishing the secured network paths and access mechanisms linking IBM Z, the CI/CD tooling, the code repositories and the target runtime environments. Planning how systems reach each other securely is an infrastructure and governance concern that needs to be settled independently of, and typically ahead of, the development work it enables. Writing the unit tests that exercise the transformed Java classes is incorrect because unit testing is an application-development activity. Choosing which COBOL copybooks map to which Java data classes is incorrect because copybook-to-class mapping is a data-modelling decision made during transformation, not a connectivity one. Deciding the package and namespace structure for the generated code is incorrect because package structure is a code-organisation choice, unrelated to how environments connect. For the exam, separate connectivity planning from the development activities it supports.