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

During his yearly appraisal, a member of the sales team is given the following feedback:

'Your approach to your sales target has been successful, but you have not applied the approach widely enough. Your target for next year is to use your recent experience to double your sales- this will ensure your contribution is in line with the team's increased target'.

After discussion, this target is agreed on and is added to his written appraisal.

The organization recognizes four facets of knowledge: A) Individual B) Corporate C) Explicit D) Tacit

Which combination describes the appraisal target given above?

A. A and C

B. A and D

C. B and C

D. B and D

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

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?

A. Could have

B. Must have

C. Should have

D. Want to have

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

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.

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

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?

A. Change control

B. Requirements cross-referencing

C. Requirements identification

D. Requirements origin and ownership

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