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
Poppy Pet Care Kennels offers short-term accommodation for dogs whilst their owners are on holiday. The managing director of the company has initiated a project to create a new website that will allow owners to view kennel availability, book kennel accommodation and allow them to monitor their dogs whilst they are away, via a webcam.
The system will also allow kennel assistants to plan the dogs' feeding times and schedule kennel maintenance.
Customers will be able to leave feedback on the website, which will be reviewed by the quality manager who may respond to comments made by the customer.
The following are potential actors: A) Poppy Pet Care Kennels B) Kennel assistants C) The managing director D) Customers E) Quality manager
Which of these would be drawn as actors on the use case diagram?
A. A, B and C
B. A, D and E
C. B, C and E
D. B, D and E
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 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?
A. Change control
B. Configuration control
C. Configuration management
D. Software support
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 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.
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
A business analyst has interviewed project stakeholders and has a robust list of requirements.
At which stages in the requirements engineering framework would he check that these requirements support the business objectives defined at the start of the project?
A. Analysis and validation
B. Elicitation and analysis
C. Elicitation and documentation
D. Validation and documentation
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.
A project, which was initiated several months ago, has been impacted by the following changes:
1.
An organizational restructure has altered the responsibilities of the stakeholders.
2.
A new chief executive has been appointed, who has new ideas regarding the immediate focus of the project.
Which of the following attributes in a requirements catalogue entry would need to be updated to reflect these changes?
A. Owner, source.
B. Priority, owner, version history.
C. Rationale, priority, source.
D. Version history, author, rationale.
