Practitioner Certificate in Requirements Engineering Free Sample Questions

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?

Life Extenders is a not-for-profit organization, which renovates donated furniture to sell in its high street shop; any profit it makes is given to local charities. The operations director is planning a small project to implement a website to support the organization.

The business analyst assigned to work on this project is in the process of identifying stakeholder roles. The following have been suggested:
A) Members of the public could be customers of Life Extenders.
B) Members of the public could be suppliers of Life Extenders.
C) Life Extenders is a partner of other local charities.
D) Life Extenders is a regulator as it is a not-for-profit organization.

Which of these statements are correct?

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

Why is this distinction made?

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?

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

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?