RE18 Online Practice Questions and Answers

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. Formal review

B. Peer review

C. Structured walkthrough

D. Technical review

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. Activity sampling

B. Document analysis

C. Observation

D. Special purpose records

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?

A. 1 only

B. 1 and 2

C. 2, 3 and 4

D. 3 and 4

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?

A. Developers, business owners, business analyst.

B. Developers, testers, business sponsor.

C. Testers, business owners, business analyst.

D. Testers, business owners, business sponsor.

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. M

B. S

C. C

D. W

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. Activity sampling

B. Focus group

C. Scenario analysis

D. Workshop

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?

A. A, B and C

B. A and C

C. B, C and D

D. D only

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. Data models and introduction and background.

B. Function models and requirements catalogue.

C. Requirements catalogue and data model.

D. Requirements catalogue and glossary of terms.

A business analyst is categorizing requirements in a requirements catalogue. Which of the following would be classed as a non-functional requirement?

A. A customer order can be cancelled up to the point of order despatch.

B. Customer order details must be kept for seven years.

C. Customer order entry screens must include the company logo.

D. Customer orders can be placed in English, Spanish or German.

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?

A. Acceptance criteria

B. Owner

C. Priority

D. RequirementID