BCS Practitioner Certificate in Requirements Engineering 2018 RE18 Exam Questions

At Rusty Springs Ltd, a new online order system is being designed for its registered customers. Each customer has an account, allowing them to order from a pre-populated form containing details of their purchases in the previous three months. The customer simply ticks which previous purchases they would like to re-order, confirms delivery details and approves the purchase. A Rusty Springs administrator updates the purchase details on the system on a monthly basis and the sales manager gets an automated order from the system within two hours of the purchase.

A business analyst has written a use case entitled 'Key Customer Purchases Springs', which includes

the following lines:

A) The customer has logged onto the system and wishes to purchase springs.

B) The customer adds a new product code onto the system.

C) Only the registered customer can make an order.

D) The system returns the previous purchases.

Which of the following is correct?

A project team has decided that it wishes to adopt an agile/iterative approach to a development project. The following principles have been agreed upon to guide the selection of elicitation techniques:

1) We will embrace the evolutionary and re-factoring principles of iterative development in our approach to requirements elicitation.

2) We need to build a broad (but basic) understanding of how teams work together in the current business situation.

3) We need to build strong personal relationships to ensure we can instil empowerment and collaboration in the team.

Which of the following sets of elicitation techniques would support all these principles?

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?

One of the requirements of a new accounts management system is that it must allow users to scale the size of text on the screen. The requirement states that the text can be reduced to 10% of normal size and increased up to 500% of normal size, depending on on the preference of the user.

What would this requirement be classified as?

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 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?

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?