BCS Practitioner Certificate in Requirements Engineering 2018 RE18 Exam Questions

Why is it important to record the author, source, and owner attributes of each requirement in a

requirements catalogue?

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?

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?

Spicer, a 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?

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 business analyst is in the process of completing the requirements document for a project. She has made the following 'to-do' list of actions to help keep track of her work:

1. Need to amend the description of the scope of the project.

2. Need to record the terminology used throughout the document.

3. Need to add the use cases and the as-is business process diagrams.

When she completes all of these actions, which requirements document sections will not have been updated?

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?