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Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

What is Root Cause Analysis (RCA)?

The process of identifying the underlying cause of a problem or incident.

What is an example of Root Cause Analysis (RCA)?

Investigating a network outage to determine if it was caused by hardware failure, software glitch, or human error.

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