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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:

Question 22

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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 •

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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 opi

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

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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 en

Question 26

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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 e

Question 27

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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 d

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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 req

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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 can

Question 30

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

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A business analyst is allocating elicited requirements to an appropriate category in a requirements catalogue. Here are five of the captured requirements: A) A sales person must be able to confirm a sales order. B) Only customers with a 'normal' status should be permitted to place orders. C) The order management system should hold the data for 'barred' customers for five years. D) A stock picker must be able to mark an order as 'picked' E) The order management team should be able to view sales orders by time range and status. Which of these requirements will be classified as functional requirements in the requirements catalogue?

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?

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 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 project, which was initiated several months ago, has been impacted by the following changes: An organizational restructure has altered the responsibilities of the stakeholders. 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.

One of the requirements of a new accounts management system is that it must allow users to scale the size of text on the screen. The requirement states that the text can be reduced to 10% of normal size and increased up to 500% of normal size, depending on the preference of the user. What would this requirement be classified as?

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?

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?

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?

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:

Question 21

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 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.

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Question 22

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:

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)

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Question 23

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?

Focus group

Interviews

Observation

Workshop

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Question 24

A business analyst is categorizing requirements in a requirements catalogue.

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

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.

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Question 25

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?

Aligned with business objectives.

Compliant with quality standards and policies.

Technically feasible.

Unambiguous.

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Question 26

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?

A, B and E

A, C and D

A, D and E

B, C and E

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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?

Focus group and workshops.

Observation and interviews.

Scenarios and activity sampling.

Special purpose record and surveys.

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Question 28

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?

Business activity models

Process models

Use cases

User stories

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Question 29

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?

Change control

Configuration control

Horizontal traceability

Vertical traceability

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Question 30

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.

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