BCS Practitioner Certificate in Requirements Engineering 2018 RE18 Exam Questions

A business analyst working on a project has identified:

3 requirements for which there is a workaround and the users can live without;

2 requirements that the users can live without for now;

15 requirements which, if not delivered, will make the solution unworkable or useless.

When these requirements are prioritized using MoSCoW, which of the following categories will not be

used?

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?

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?

Life Extenders is a not-for-profit organization, which renovates donated furniture to sell in its high street shop; any profit it makes is given to local charities. The operations director is planning a small project to implement a website to support the organization.

The business analyst assigned to work on this project is in the process of identifying stakeholder roles. The following have been suggested:

A) Members of the public could be customers of Life Extenders.

B) Members of the public could be suppliers of Life Extenders.

C) Life Extenders is a partner of other local charities.

D) Life Extenders is a regulator as it is a not-for-profit organization.

Which of these statements are correct?

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?

A zoo is in the process of introducing a new IT system to improve its processes and drive greater efficiency in its operations. It has received permission from the board of directors for a phased approach to introduce new business functionality and to replace manual processes with digital solutions.

The key areas for inclusion in the first phase are a new animal health monitoring system, which will allow the zookeepers to utilize the power of data analytics to monitor and proactively manage the health of the animals. It will also provide them with a way of accurately recording the birth of new animals and record loans of animals to other zoos around the world.

On the public-facing side, the project will provide customers with an adoption scheme, which will raise much-needed funds.

A business analyst has constructed a use case diagram for the zoo:

The following potential statements have been made about the diagram:

A) The diagram is a correct representation of the scenario.

B) There are aspects of the scenario which are incorrectly represented in the diagram.

C) There are aspects of the scenario which are incorrectly omitted from the diagram.

D) The notation used in the diagram is incorrect.

Which of them is/are true?

A project manager has stated that he wants 'secure and controlled access to documentation, as well as support for impact analysis and traceability in terms of version history'.

What element of requirements management will offer this?