BCS Practitioner Certificate in Requirements Engineering 2018 - RE18 Exam Practice Test
Question 1
The following two requirements have been captured during elicitation:
REQ#1: The system will operate during standard working hours, 5 days a week (Monday to Friday) | Priority = S(houl(d). Source = Operations assistant.
REQ#2: The system will operate during extended working hours, 6 days a week (Monday to Saturday) | Priority = S(houl(d). Source = Operations supervisor.
The owner of these requirements (the operations director) is content that REQ#1 and REQ#2 should be replaced by:
REQ#99 - The system must operate from 06:00 to 20:00, Monday to Saturday.
What update to the requirements catalogue is needed to reflect this change?
REQ#1: The system will operate during standard working hours, 5 days a week (Monday to Friday) | Priority = S(houl(d). Source = Operations assistant.
REQ#2: The system will operate during extended working hours, 6 days a week (Monday to Saturday) | Priority = S(houl(d). Source = Operations supervisor.
The owner of these requirements (the operations director) is content that REQ#1 and REQ#2 should be replaced by:
REQ#99 - The system must operate from 06:00 to 20:00, Monday to Saturday.
What update to the requirements catalogue is needed to reflect this change?
Correct Answer: D
Question 2
The business analyst for a project has elicited, analysed and documented the requirements of the identified stakeholders; these have been validated and agreed.
A few days after this agreement took place, the project manager approached the analyst with a request to change several requirements.
What course of action SHOULD. the business analyst take?
A few days after this agreement took place, the project manager approached the analyst with a request to change several requirements.
What course of action SHOULD. the business analyst take?
Correct Answer: C
Question 3
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?
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?
Correct Answer: D
Question 4
A business analyst working on a software upgrade project has created a process model, supported by several use case diagrams as part of her requirements work. She is currently compiling the requirements document.
Into which section SHOULD. she put the use case diagrams?
Into which section SHOULD. she put the use case diagrams?
Correct Answer: D
Question 5
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?
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?
Correct Answer: A
Question 6
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?
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?
Correct Answer: A
Question 7
Village Autos is a vehicle repair company specialising in maintaining vintage vehicles. It is in the process of procuring an automated information system to replace the current paper-based processes.
A business analyst has constructed this class diagram:
Which of these business rules is NOT supported by the class diagram?
A business analyst has constructed this class diagram:
Which of these business rules is NOT supported by the class diagram?
Correct Answer: B
Question 8
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?
The primary validation role of the project sponsor is to ensure that the requirements are what at this stage?
Correct Answer: A
