RE18 Sample Questions & Answers

A project manager has stated that he wants 'secure and controlled access to documentation, as well as support for impact analysis and traceability in terms of version history'.

What element of requirements management will offer this?

Below is a requirements list for a taxi company's booking system:
REQ#1: The system must allow the operator to make and amend a taxi booking.
REQ#2: The system must allow the operator to delete a taxi booking.
REQ#3: The system must be available within standard working hours.
REQ#4: The system should support 100 concurrent booking requests between 06:00hrs and 23:30hrs. REQ#5: The system should allow the operator to add a note when cancelling a taxi booking.

The following actions are being considered:
A) Separate REQ#1 into 2 requirements.
B) Clarify what is meant by 'standard working hours' in REQ#3.
C) Check that the proposed solution will be able to support 100 concurrent booking requests, per REQ#4.
D) Separate REQ#4 into 2 requirements.
E) Review and merge REQ#2 and REQ#5.

Which of these actions should be undertaken to improve the clarity of these requirements?

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?

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?

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?

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 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 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?

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?

A project, which was initiated several months ago, has been impacted by the following changes:

1. An organizational restructure has altered the responsibilities of the stakeholders.
2. 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?