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

A business analyst has collected the following legal requirement in support of a project seeking to improve the services provided by a children's charity:

The system must record all the details of the children and young people we interact with.

The project is in the early phases of requirements elicitation. At this stage, the business analyst is trying to ensure that they have captured the broad requirements.

Which style of requirements document is the business analyst constructing, and what additional (essential) attribute will they need to record?

A. Requirements catalogue; owner

B. Requirements catalogue; requirement ID

C. Requirements list; business area

D. Requirements list; source

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. A, B and C

B. A, D and E

C. B, C and D

D. C, D and E

An international travel operator has a customer services department responsible for investigating complaints made by holidaymakers. The department has five members of staff based in its head office.

A business analyst is working on a project to replace the existing holiday management system and has compiled the following requirements from a range of elicitation activities:

1.

The solution should be fully accessible in the English, French and German languages.

2.

Users should be able to retrieve holiday details by booking reference number.

3.

Holiday providers shall be able to add the details, date and prices of their tours directly onto the system.

4.

The solution will be able to support up to 2000 concurrent active users.

5.

The solution will be restorable from back-up within 4 hours.

6.

The solution should be able to retrieve holiday details within 10 seconds.

Which of the following represents the correct categorization of the requirements?

A. 2x Functional requirement 2x Non-functional requirement 1x General requirement 1x Technical requirement

B. 2x Functional requirement 2x Non-Functional requirement 2x General requirement

C. 2x Functional requirement 3x Non Functional requirement 1x General requirement

D. 3x Functional requirement 2x Non-functional requirement 1x General requirement

A set of requirements for a new online health information portal have been prioritized using MoSCoW:

REQ#1: (S) REQ#2: (C) REQ#3: (S) REQ#4: (M) REQ#5: (M) REQ#6: (C) REQ#7: (W) Only the minimum usable subset was approved for inclusion in the first iteration of the project. After the build for the first iteration began, it was estimated there was enough time to add two additional requirements, without negative impact on the project schedule.

Which two requirements will now be added to the first iteration build?

A. REQ#1 and REQ#3

B. REQ#2 and REQ#6

C. REQ#4 and REQ#5

D. REQ#6 and REQ#7

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

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. A

B. B

C. B and C

D. C and D

Isamu is a business analyst working on a project. Unfortunately, it is not progressing as hoped or planned.

He has identified that the main issues with the users on the project are:

1) They manage complex processes and they do not seem to be able to articulate their needs.

2) They claim they cannot engage in requirements elicitation as they simply do not know what is possible.

Which elicitation technique would best address both these issues?

A. Activity sampling

B. Focus group

C. Prototyping

D. Scenario analysis

A business analyst is working on a project seeking to deliver a new online booking system for a luxury conference center. The conference center includes three business areas: Customer Services Finance Regulation and Quality Assurance

The following list of requirements has been compiled from a range of elicitation activities:

1.

The solution shall comply with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation.

2.

The receptionist shall be able to view the customer name, address and telephone number.

3.

The solution will be available to all users between 06:00hrs and 23:00hrs.

4.

The customer shall be able to view available conference rooms for a range of dates.

Which of the following represents the correct categorization of these requirements by business area?

A. 1 x General requirement (Regulation and Quality Assurance) 2 x Functional requirements (Customer Services) 1 x Non-functional requirement (Customer Services)

B. 1 x General requirement (Regulation and Quality Assurance) 2 x Non-functional requirements (Customer Services) 1 x Functional requirement (Finance)

C. 1 x Technical requirement (Regulation and Quality Assurance) 1 x Functional requirement (Finance) 2 x Non-functional requirement (Customer Services)

D. 2 x General requirement (Regulation and Quality Assurance) 2 x Functional requirements (Customer Services)

In developing requirements, a business analyst has decomposed requirements to reflect defined goals, which will deliver some benefit to the customer: the sales manager of Street-Runner Ltd.

The requirements may mostly be achieved in short periods of project effort (2 to 5 weeks), although some rework and change may be required.

What is the format of these requirements?

A. Business activity models

B. Process models

C. Use cases

D. User stories

A project has been running at the Wield Engineering Company for six months. The requirements have been signed off and development is underway; however, the development team has hit a problem and cannot implement an approved requirement. The business analyst has been asked to discuss this with the requirement owner.

Before booking a meeting with the owner, the business analyst decides to check whether there are more requirements affected by this technical limitation.

What will help the business analyst discover other affected requirements?

A. Change control

B. Configuration control

C. Horizontal traceability

D. Vertical traceability

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

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 the preference of the user.

What would this requirement be classified as?

A. Functional requirement

B. General requirement

C. Non-functional requirement

D. Technical requirement

Below is a requirements list for a taxi company's booking system:

REQ#1: The system must allow the operator to make and amend a taxi booking.

REQ#2: The system must allow the operator to delete a taxi booking.

REQ#3: The system must be available within standard working hours.

REQ#4: The system should support 100 concurrent booking requests between 06:00hrs and 23:30hrs.

REQ#5: The system should allow the operator to add a note when cancelling a taxi booking.

The following actions are being considered:

A) Separate REQ#1 into 2 requirements.

B) Clarify what is meant by 'standard working hours' in REQ#3.

C) Check that the proposed solution will be able to support 100 concurrent booking requests, per REQ#4.

D) Separate REQ#4 into 2 requirements.

E) Review and merge REQ#2 and REQ#5.

Which of these actions should be undertaken to improve the clarity of these requirements?

A. A, B and C

B. A, B and E

C. A, D and E

D. C, D and E

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?

A. A) Is a precondition; the sales manager is the actor.

B. A) Is the trigger; C) is a line from the security section.

C. B) Is a line from the basic flow; the customer is the actor.

D. D) Is a line from the alternative flow; this is a system level use case.