BCS Practitioner Certificate in Requirements Engineering 2018 RE18 Exam Practice Test

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?

Below is a requirements list for a taxi company's booking system:

REQ#1: The system must allow the operator to make and amend a taxi booking.

REQ#2: The system must allow the operator to delete a taxi booking.

REQ#3: The system must be available within standard working hours.

REQ#4: The system should support 100 concurrent booking requests between 06:00hrs and 23:30hrs.

REQ#5: The system should allow the operator to add a note when cancelling a taxi booking.

The following actions are being considered:

A) Separate REQ#1 into 2 requirements.

B) Clarify what is meant by 'standard working hours' in REQ#3.

C) Check that the proposed solution will be able to support 100 concurrent booking requests, per

REQ#4.

D) Separate REQ#4 into 2 requirements.

E) Review and merge REQ#2 and REQ#5.

Which of these actions should be undertaken to improve the clarity of these requirements?

A set of requirements for a new online health information portal have been prioritized using

MoSCoW:

REQ#1: (S)

REQ#2: (C)

REQ#3: (S)

REQ#4: (M)

REQ#5: (M)

REQ#6: (C)

REQ#7: (W)

Only the minimum usable subset was approved for inclusion in the first iteration of the project. After the build for the first iteration began, it was estimated there was enough time to add two additional requirements, without negative impact on the project schedule.

Which two requirements will now be added to the first iteration build?

A business analyst has interviewed project stakeholders and has a robust list of requirements.

At which stages in the requirements engineering framework would he check that these requirements support the business objectives defined at the start of the project?

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

Why is this distinction made?

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?

ChemCo Ltd has initiated a project to consider changes in its pension scheme.

Paul works in the marketing department and is enrolled in the pension scheme. He has been invited to attend a pension scheme project session designed to elicit requirements, understand opinions on the level of service, and consider how it could be improved in the future. On arrival at the session, Paul recognizes people from other departments, who are all customers of the pension scheme.

In which type of session is Paul about to participate?