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?

Requirements catalogue; requirement ID

Requirements list; business area

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:

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

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

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

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.

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

The solution should be able to retrieve holiday details within 10 seconds.Which of the following represents the correct categorization of the requirements?

2x Functional requirement2x Non-functional requirement1x General requirement1x Technical requirement

2x Functional requirement2x Non-Functional requirement2x General requirement

2x Functional requirement3x Non Functional requirement1x General requirement

3x Functional requirement2x Non-functional requirement1x General requirement

An inexperienced business analyst has been asked to conduct scenario analysis. The notes he made about the topic during his training course are rather disorganized, with correct and incorrect assumptions grouped together.Which of the following notes he made about scenario analysis is incorrect?

Can form the basis of test scripts

Explicitly considers exception situations

Helps to capture tacit knowledge

A business analyst is in the process of validating a set of requirements produced for a new business initiative and the following needs agreement:That the requirements...1) Are within the scope of the project.2) Can be verified when they have been implemented.3) Express business needs clearly and correctly.Who is responsible for this agreement?

Developers, business owners, business analyst.

Developers, testers, business sponsor.

Testers, business owners, business analyst.

Testers, business owners, business sponsor.

A project team has decided that it wishes to adopt an agile/iterative approach to a development project. The following principles have been agreed upon to guide the selection of elicitation techniques:1) We will embrace the evolutionary and re-factoring principles of iterative development in our approach to requirements elicitation.2) We need to build a broad (but basic) understanding of how teams work together in the current business situation.3) We need to build strong personal relationships to ensure we can instil empowerment and collaboration in the team.Which of the following sets of elicitation techniques would support all these principles?

Interviews, workshops, observation.

Interviews, prototyping, scenario analysis.

Interviews, workshops, observation.

Prototyping, scenario analysis, document analysis.

Scenario analysis, observation, survey.

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

To enable traceability for clarification of the requirement.

To enable effective prioritization of the requirement.

To enable traceability for clarification of the requirement.

To ensure effective configuration control of the requirement.

To ensure that the requirement is atomic.

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:

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?

Need to amend the description of the scope of the project.

Need to record the terminology used throughout the document.

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?

Data models and introduction and background.

Function models and requirements catalogue.

Requirements catalogue and data model.

Requirements catalogue and glossary of terms.

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

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?

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

A business analyst is categorizing requirements in a requirements catalogue.Which of the following would be classed as a non-functional requirement?

Customer order details must be kept for seven years.

A customer order can be cancelled up to the point of order despatch.

Customer order details must be kept for seven years.

Customer order entry screens must include the company logo.

Customer orders can be placed in English, Spanish or German.

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?

Compliant with quality standards and policies.

Aligned with business objectives.

Compliant with quality standards and policies.

In order to understand the existing processes, Jools, a new business analyst at the Golden Cup Company, begins her investigation with reviewing the process documents and archived information. In a discussion with Alan, the project manager, she expresses the view that the processes all seem to be working, which surprises Alan. In his experience, the processes are all failing or not being followed as they should be, due to local interpretation and variation in working practices.Jools' goal is to gain an independent perspective on the working practices and develop individual relationships with her new colleagues.Which is the best set of techniques to help her achieve her goal?

Scenarios and activity sampling.

Special purpose record and surveys.

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

To allow the high-level goals of the solution to be expressed as solution requirements. B.To highlight the technical constraints in which the solution requirements must operate.

To reduce the number of functional requirements in the requirements catalogue.

To separate strategic requirements from those that only provide value to the project.

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?

Requirements origin and ownership

A project aims to deliver a means of enabling the inhabitants of an archipelago to vote via the Internet. Although the technology exists to provide Internet coverage for the islands, it is notoriously difficult (and therefore expensive) to provide robust coverage because of the remote location.Two of the requirements captured from stakeholders are provided below:

The solution shall provide all inhabitants with the ability to register and vote for a presidential candidate.

All voters shall receive an email confirmation that their vote has been registered within 2 minutes of voting.Which requirements filter will be particularly relevant in requirements analysis?

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

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

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

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

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

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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?

Formal review

Peer review

Structured walkthrough

Technical review

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