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1/5 · Documenting and Modelling Requirements · easy
What is the primary purpose of a requirements catalogue in business analysis practice?
ATo provide a single, structured record of all requirements together with attributes such as source, owner, priority and status.
BTo list only the functional requirements that have been expressed as user stories, leaving out quality attributes and constraints.
CTo record every stakeholder's job title and contact details for the project, together with their influence over the requirements.
DTo document the sequence of business events that trigger a business process, showing the order in which they occur over time.
2/5 · Documenting and Modelling Requirements
A business analyst is drawing a use case diagram for a new online ordering system. She wants to show clearly which functions are delivered by the system itself, as distinct from the actors that use it. Which element of the diagram should she use to do this?
AA generalisation arrow drawn between two actors.
BA rectangle labelled with the system name that encloses all of the use cases.
CAn association line linking each actor to every use case in the diagram.
DA note attached to a use case describing its pre-conditions.
3/5 · Documenting and Modelling Requirements
In agile projects, the ordered list of user stories maintained by the product owner, where items near the top are broken down in fine detail and items further down remain broad and unrefined, is known as the:
AProduct backlog.
BRequirements catalogue.
CBusiness requirements document.
DSprint backlog.
4/5 · Documenting and Modelling Requirements · hard
A business analyst records each requirement in a catalogue with a unique identifier, description, source, owner, priority and rationale. A stakeholder later asks why a particular requirement was included and who originally requested it. Which two catalogue attributes together answer this question, without the analyst needing to consult the original workshop notes?
AUnique identifier and version number.
BPriority and status.
CSource and rationale.
DOwner and complexity rating.
5/5 · Documenting and Modelling Requirements · hard
During analysis of a customer records system, a business analyst produces both a class model and an entity relationship diagram (ERD) covering the same set of business data. Which statement correctly distinguishes the two techniques?
AAn ERD documents functional requirements while a class model documents non-functional requirements for the same data.
BA class model captures data together with the behaviour (operations) associated with it, whereas an ERD is concerned purely with the structure of data and the relationships between entities.
CA class model may only be used to depict the 'as-is' situation, while an ERD is reserved for the 'to-be' design.
DThey are simply two names for identical diagrams, so producing both for the same scope is a wasteful duplication of effort.
Answer: B. Both the class model and the entity relationship diagram are used to document data and its relationships, but they are not interchangeable. A class model, rooted in object-oriented analysis, shows operations (behaviour) associated with each class in addition to attributes and associations, while an ERD confines itself to entities, attributes and relationships without depicting behaviour.
Source: the BCS Business Analysis Foundation syllabus - Documenting and Modelling Requirements
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