RE18 Practitioner Certificate in Requirements Engineering Practice Questions

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 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 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 stage?

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?

The diagram below shows the relationship between requirements in a project. What does this diagram represent?

Spicer, an 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?

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?

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

Why is this distinction made?

A business analyst working on a project has been informed that changes are required in a particular requirement; she has revisited the requirement set and is unable to determine other requirements that might be impacted by such changes.

Which element of requirements management appears to be missing?

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