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1/5 · Establishing the Requirements · easy
The requirements engineering framework referenced in the BCS Business Analysis syllabus describes a set of core activities, with requirements management running continuously alongside them. Which four activities make up that core sequence?
ADiscovery, Negotiation, Approval, Closure
BInvestigation, Prioritisation, Sign-off, Traceability
CElicitation, Analysis (and negotiation), Documentation, Validation
DElicitation, Design, Build, Test
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2/5 · Establishing the Requirements
A stakeholder states: 'The new online booking system must be able to process at least 500 concurrent transactions without any drop in response time.' Which type of requirement does this statement represent?
AA business rule
BA functional (solution) requirement
CA non-functional (solution) requirement
DA general business requirement
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3/5 · Establishing the Requirements · hard
A business analyst needs to understand how experienced claims handlers make judgement calls that are not written down in any procedure manual and that the handlers themselves find hard to articulate. Which elicitation technique is MOST appropriate?
AObservation of the handlers performing their work (e.g. job shadowing)
BAnalysis of existing procedure documents
CA written questionnaire distributed to all claims handlers
DA facilitated workshop with the claims handling team
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4/5 · Establishing the Requirements
In requirements engineering, which actor is best described as the person with specialist knowledge of a particular area of the business who is consulted to confirm the accuracy and completeness of elicited requirements, without personally running the elicitation activities?
AThe systems architect
BThe domain expert
CThe end user
DThe Business Analyst
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5/5 · Establishing the Requirements
Representatives from five departments, who have a long history of disagreeing about process ownership, are to have their requirements elicited together in a single workshop rather than through separate one-to-one interviews. Which of the following is a genuine risk specifically associated with using a workshop in this situation?
AOne or two senior or forceful participants may dominate the discussion, so that the requirements of quieter stakeholders are under-represented unless the session is actively facilitated
BA workshop can only proceed once every participant has already been interviewed individually beforehand
CWorkshops are less effective than interviews at reconciling conflicting views because they lack a mechanism for building consensus
DWorkshops are structurally unable to capture non-functional requirements, only functional ones
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A is correct. Workshops are valued precisely because they bring multiple, sometimes conflicting, stakeholders together to build shared understanding and consensus more quickly than a series of separate interviews. However, this same group setting introduces a real risk: without skilled facilitation, more senior or vocal participants can dominate proceedings and drown out quieter contributors. The other options describe limitations that do not genuinely apply to the workshop technique.
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