BCS RE18 Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 3

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:

A practice guide for requirements elicitation offers the following information:

Disadvantage: Likely to be particularly time-consuming to conduct.

Disadvantage: Difficult to separate fact from opinion.

Advantage: Provides an opportunity to build rapport.

Advantage: Provides an opportunity to experience the business environment.

To which elicitation method does this extract refer?

A business analyst is categorizing requirements in a requirements catalogue.

Which of the following would be classed as a non-functional requirement?

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?

Below are statements about what a use case model can help the analyst to do:

A) Establish the scope of a project.

B) Identify functional requirements.

C) Understand how data sets are related to each other.

D) Define the business rules in a process.

E) Validate how complete a requirements set is.

Which of these statements are true?

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?

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 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?

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

Why is this distinction made?