Free BCS Practitioner Certificate in Requirements Engineering 2018 Exam RE18 Exam Practice Test

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?

• Acceptance criteria
  
• Owner
  
• Priority
  
• RequirementID
  

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?

• Interviews, prototyping, scenario analysis
  
• Interviews, workshops, observation
  
• Prototyping, scenario analysis, document analysis
  
• Scenario analysis, observation, survey
  

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

• A customer order can be cancelled up to the point of order despatch.
  
• Customer order details must be kept for seven years.
  
• Customer order entry screens must include the company logo.
  
• Customer orders can be placed in English, Spanish or German.
  

In order to understand the existing processes, Jools, a new business analyst at the Golden Cup Company, begins her investigation with reviewing the process documents and archived information.In a discussion with Alan, the project manager, she expresses the view that the processes all seem to be working, which surprises Alan. In his experience, the processes are all failing or not being followed as they should be, due to local interpretation and variation in working practices.Jools' goal is to gain an independent perspective on the working practices and develop individual relationships with her new colleagues.Which is the best set of techniques to help her achieve her goal?

• Focus group and workshops
  
• Observation and interviews
  
• Scenarios and activity sampling
  
• Special purpose record and surveys
  

A project sponsor has been asked to validate requirements in the requirements validation stage of the requirements engineering framework.The primary validation role of the project sponsor is to ensure that the requirements are what at this dstage?

• Aligned with business objectives
  
• Compliant with quality standards and policies
  
• Technically feasible
  
• Unambiguous
  

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?

• A and B
  
• A, B and C
  
• B, C and D
  
• B and D
  

A business analyst has been asked to ensure that all requirements are robust.The following are potential characteristics of a requirement:A) ConsistentB) FunctionalC) TacitD) TechnicalE) OwnedF) RelevantWhich of them are characteristics of a requirement that is robust?

• A, B and D
  
• A, E and F
  
• B, C and D
  
• C, E and F
  

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?

• Formal review
  
• Peer review
  
• Structured walkthrough
  
• Technical review
  

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

• To allow the high-level goals of the solution to be expressed as solution requirements
  
• To highlight the technical constraints in which the solution requirements must operate
  
• To reduce the number of functional requirements in the requirements catalogue
  
• To separate strategic requirements from those that only provide value to the project
  

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?

• Data models and introduction and background
  
• Function models and requirements catalogue
  
• Requirements catalogue and data model
  
• Requirements catalogue and glossary of terms