Exam 5: BCS Practitioner Certificate in Requirements Engineering 2018

Peter is analyzing requirements elicited for a sales order system. He is looking at the following requirement to see if it is fit for purpose: 'The system shall calculate the total volume of orders received per salesman on Fridays, except when the end of year reports are being run'. During requirements analysis, requirements are checked for: A) Ambiguity. B) Relevance. C) Clarity. D) Whether the requirement is a solution. On which of these checks would this requirement fail?

An inexperienced business analyst has been asked to conduct scenario analysis. The notes he made about the topic during his training course are rather disorganized, with correct and incorrect assumptions grouped together. Which of the following notes he made about scenario analysis is incorrect ?

A project, which was initiated several months ago, has been impacted by the following changes: 1. An organizational restructure has altered the responsibilities of the stakeholders. 2. A new chief executive has been appointed, who has new ideas regarding the immediate focus of the project. Which of the following attributes in a requirements catalogue entry would need to be updated to reflect these changes?

A business analyst is allocating elicited requirements to an appropriate category in a requirements catalogue. Here are five of the captured requirements: A) A sales person must be able to confirm a sales order. B) Only customers with a 'normal' status should be permitted to place orders. C) The order management system should hold the data for 'barred' customers for five years. D) A stock picker must be able to mark an order as 'picked' E) The order management team should be able to view sales orders by time range and status. Which of these requirements will be classified as functional requirements in the requirements catalogue?

Below are statements about what a use case model can help the analyst to do: A) Establish the scope of a project. B) Identify functional requirements. C) Understand how data sets are related to each other. D) Define the business rules in a process. E) Validate how complete a requirements set is. Which of these statements are true?

A business analyst is working on a project seeking to deliver a new online booking system for a luxury conference center. The conference center includes three business areas: • Customer Services • Finance • Regulation and Quality Assurance The following list of requirements has been compiled from a range of elicitation activities: 1. The solution shall comply with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation. 2. The receptionist shall be able to view the customer name, address and telephone number. 3. The solution will be available to all users between 06:00hrs and 23:00hrs. 4. The customer shall be able to view available conference rooms for a range of dates. Which of the following represents the correct categorization of these requirements by business area?

A business analyst is concerned that the project team may not have a consistent understanding of the requirements set, as project team members have been working on their own individual tasks. He wants to ensure that the whole team is on track and is willing to take the time needed to achieve this. He does not want to involve business stakeholders, nor embarrass any of the project team. To begin the process of improving team understanding, he wants to hold a meeting to explain and present his understanding of the requirements to the team, and to hear their thoughts and ideas about his work so far. Which of the following approaches to requirements validation will he be using?

A business analyst is in the process of validating a set of requirements produced for a new business initiative and the following needs agreement: That the requirements... 1) Are within the scope of the project. 2) Can be verified when they have been implemented. 3) Express business needs clearly and correctly. Who is responsible for this agreement?

An international travel operator has a customer services department responsible for investigating complaints made by holidaymakers. The department has five members of staff based in its head office. A business analyst is working on a project to replace the existing holiday management system and has compiled the following requirements from a range of elicitation activities: 1. The solution should be fully accessible in the English, French and German languages. 2. Users should be able to retrieve holiday details by booking reference number. 3. Holiday providers shall be able to add the details, date and prices of their tours directly onto the system. 4. The solution will be able to support up to 2000 concurrent active users. 5. The solution will be restorable from back-up within 4 hours. 6. The solution should be able to retrieve holiday details within 10 seconds. Which of the following represents the correct categorization of the requirements?

In developing requirements, a business analyst has decomposed requirements to reflect defined goals, which will deliver some benefit to the customer: the sales manager of Street-Runner Ltd. The requirements may mostly be achieved in short periods of project effort (2 to 5 weeks), although some rework and change may be required. What is the format of these requirements?

An automated software tool is being used to manage requirements, including changes to those requirements. What information in a data catalogue is mandatory if requirements are to be managed using such a tool?

At Tiny Toys Ltd, business analyst Sophie has been employed to investigate and improve the invoicing process. To help her understand the data required in the system, she intends to request and review a sample of completed invoices. What elicitation technique will she be using?

A practice guide for requirements elicitation offers the following information: Disadvantage: Likely to be particularly time-consuming to conduct. Disadvantage: Difficult to separate fact from opinion. Advantage: Provides an opportunity to build rapport. Advantage: Provides an opportunity to experience the business environment. To which elicitation method does this extract refer?

A business analyst has collected the following legal requirement in support of a project seeking to improve the services provided by a children's charity: The system must record all the details of the children and young people we interact with. The project is in the early phases of requirements elicitation. At this stage, the business analyst is trying to ensure that they have captured the broad requirements. Which style of requirements document is the business analyst constructing, and what additional (essential) attribute will they need to record?

In order to understand the existing processes, Jools, a new business analyst at the Golden Cup Company, begins her investigation with reviewing the process documents and archived information. In a discussion with Alan, the project manager, she expresses the view that the processes all seem to be working, which surprises Alan. In his experience, the processes are all failing or not being followed as they should be, due to local interpretation and variation in working practices. Jools' goal is to gain an independent perspective on the working practices and develop individual relationships with her new colleagues. Which is the best set of techniques to help her achieve her goal?

Spicer, an herbs and spices company, is building a new website to grow its business online. A meeting is taking place to prioritize the requirements for inclusion in the first release of the website, which will take place in July. The second release of the website is planned for September. Miranda, the company buyer is the owner for a requirement that states: 'The system shall provide screens for adding new products'. Miranda informs the meeting that new products are added to the system every three months and that she needs this functionality to be in place before the system goes live. In her view, it is a mandatory requirement. Peter, who is developing the system, has stated that he can do a one-off upload of all the products into the database ready for launch in July, meaning that the website can initially go live without the 'add new product' functionality. What priority is Miranda's requirement for the July release?

Make Me A Star Productions runs an annual talent competition for aspiring amateur singers. Four business rules have been identified: 1) A contestant is allowed to sing 1 or 2 songs in a performance. 2) An audition may be attended by up to 50 contestants. 3) A contestant is always given an audition. 4) A song can only be used in one performance. Which of these business rule(s) can be found to be correctly represented in the class diagram?

Poppy Pet Care Kennels offers short-term accommodation for dogs whilst their owners are on holiday. The managing director of the company has initiated a project to create a new website that will allow owners to view kennel availability, book kennel accommodation and allow them to monitor their dogs whilst they are away, via a webcam. The system will also allow kennel assistants to plan the dogs' feeding times and schedule kennel maintenance. Customers will be able to leave feedback on the website, which will be reviewed by the quality manager who may respond to comments made by the customer. The following are potential actors: A) Poppy Pet Care Kennels B) Kennel assistants C) The managing director D) Customers E) Quality manager Which of these would be drawn as actors on the use case diagram?

A project has been running at the Wield Engineering Company for six months. The requirements have been signed off and development is underway; however, the development team has hit a problem and cannot implement an approved requirement. The business analyst has been asked to discuss this with the requirement owner. Before booking a meeting with the owner, the business analyst decides to check whether there are more requirements affected by this technical limitation. What will help the business analyst discover other affected requirements?

In a requirements catalogue, a distinction is often made between business level and solution level requirements. Why is this distinction made?