bcs re18 practice test

BCS Practitioner Certificate in Requirements Engineering 2018

Last exam update: Nov 27 ,2025
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Question 1

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:
1. The solution shall provide all inhabitants with the ability to register and vote for a presidential
candidate.
2. 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?

  • A. Checking for solutions
  • B. Confirming relevance
  • C. Feasibility evaluation
  • D. Removing conflicts
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C

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Question 2

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. A and C
  • B. A and D
  • C. B and C
  • D. B and D
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D

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Question 3

ChemCo Ltd has initiated a project to consider changes in its pension scheme.
Paul works in the marketing department and is enrolled in the pension scheme. He has been invited
to attend a pension scheme project session designed to elicit requirements, understand opinions on
the level of service, and consider how it could be improved in the future. On arrival at the session,
Paul recognizes people from other departments, who are all customers of the pension scheme.
In which type of session is Paul about to participate?

  • A. Activity sampling
  • B. Focus group
  • C. Scenario analysis
  • D. Workshop
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B

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Question 4

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

  • A. To enable effective prioritization of the requirement
  • B. To enable traceability for clarification of the requirement
  • C. To ensure effective configuration control of the requirement
  • D. To ensure that the requirement is atomic
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Question 5

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 on the preference of the user.
What would this requirement be classified as?

  • A. Functional requirement
  • B. General requirement
  • C. Non-functional requirement
  • D. Technical requirement
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Question 6

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. Analysis and validation
  • B. Elicitation and analysis
  • C. Elicitation and documentation
  • D. Validation and documentation
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B

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Question 7

An automated software tool is being used to manage requirements, including changes to those
requirements.
What information in a data catalogue is mandatory if requirements are to be managed using such a
tool?

  • A. Acceptance criteria
  • B. Owner
  • C. Priority
  • D. RequirementID
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D

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Question 8

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:
1. The solution should be fully accessible in the English, French and German languages.
2. Users should be able to retrieve holiday details by booking reference number.
3. 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.
5. The solution will be restorable from back-up within 4 hours.
6. The solution should be able to retrieve holiday details within 10 seconds
Which of the following represents the correct categorization of the requirements?

  • A. 2x Functional requirement 2x Non-functional requirement 1x General requirement 1x Technical requirement
  • B. 2x Functional requirement 2x Non-Functional requirement 2x General requirement
  • C. 2x Functional requirement 3x Non Functional requirement 1x General requirement
  • D. 3x Functional requirement 2x Non-functional requirement 1x General requirement
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Question 9

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?

  • A. A, B and C
  • B. A, D and E
  • C. B, C and D
  • D. C, D and E
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Question 10

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. A, B and E
  • B. A, C and D
  • C. A, D and E
  • D. B, C and E
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Question 11

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

  • A. A customer order can be cancelled up to the point of order despatch.
  • B. Customer order details must be kept for seven years.
  • C. Customer order entry screens must include the company logo.
  • D. Customer orders can be placed in English, Spanish or German.
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B

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Question 12

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. REQ#1 and REQ#3
  • B. REQ#2 and REQ#6
  • C. REQ#4 and REQ#5
  • D. REQ#6 and REQ#7
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Question 13

Spicer, a 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?

  • A. Could have
  • B. Must have
  • C. Should have
  • D. Want to have
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Question 14

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. Requirements catalogue; owner
  • B. Requirements catalogue; requirement ID
  • C. Requirements list; business area
  • D. Requirements list; source
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B


Reference:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file
/42737/1480-design-requirement-annex.pdf

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Question 15

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. Business activity models
  • B. Process models
  • C. Use cases
  • D. User stories
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