EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A project has been running at the Wield Engineering Company for six months. The requirements have been signed off and development is underway; however, the development team has hit a problem and cannot implement an approved requirement. The business analyst has been asked to discuss this with the requirement owner.
Before booking a meeting with the owner, the business analyst decides to check whether there are more requirements affected by this technical limitation.
What will help the business analyst discover other affected requirements?

Question2: 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?

Question3: 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?

Question4: 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?

Question5: Poppy Pet Care Kennels offers short-term accommodation for dogs whilst their owners are on holiday. The managing director of the company has initiated a project to create a new website that will allow owners to view kennel availability, book kennel accommodation and allow them to monitor their dogs whilst they are away, via a webcam.
The system will also allow kennel assistants to plan the dogs' feeding times and schedule kennel maintenance.
Customers will be able to leave feedback on the website, which will be reviewed by the quality manager who may respond to comments made by the customer.
The following are potential actors:
A) Poppy Pet Care Kennels
B) Kennel assistants
C) The managing director
D) Customers
E) Quality manager
Which of these would be drawn as actors on the use case diagram?

Question6: In order to understand the existing processes, Jools, a new business analyst at the Golden Cup Company, begins her investigation with reviewing the process documents and archived information.
In a discussion with Alan, the project manager, she expresses the view that the processes all seem to be working, which surprises Alan. In his experience, the processes are all failing or not being followed as they should be, due to local interpretation and variation in working practices.
Jools' goal is to gain an independent perspective on the working practices and develop individual relationships with her new colleagues.
Which is the best set of techniques to help her achieve her goal?

Question7: A business analyst has been asked to ensure that all requirements are robust.
The following are potential characteristics of a requirement:
A) Consistent
B) Functional
C) Tacit
D) Technical
E) Owned
F) Relevant
Which of them are characteristics of a requirement that is robust?

Question8: A project team has decided that it wishes to adopt an agile/iterative approach to a development project. The following principles have been agreed upon to guide the selection of elicitation techniques:
1) We will embrace the evolutionary and re-factoring principles of iterative development in our approach to requirements elicitation.
2) We need to build a broad (but basic) understanding of how teams work together in the current business situation.
3) We need to build strong personal relationships to ensure we can instil empowerment and collaboration in the team.
Which of the following sets of elicitation techniques would support all these principles?

Question9: 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?

Question10: 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 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?

Question11: Isamu is a business analyst working on a project. Unfortunately, it is not progressing as hoped or planned.
He has identified that the main issues with the users on the project are:
1) They manage complex processes and they do not seem to be able to articulate their needs.
2) They claim they cannot engage in requirements elicitation as they simply do not know what is possible.
Which elicitation technique would best address both these issues?

Question12: At Tiny Toys Ltd, business analyst Sophie has been employed to investigate and improve the invoicing process. To help her understand the data required in the system, she intends to request and review a sample of completed invoices.
What elicitation technique will she be using?

Question13: 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?

Question14: A business analyst working on a project has identified:
3 requirements for which there is a workaround and the users can live without;
2 requirements that the users can live without for now;
15 requirements which, if not delivered, will make the solution unworkable or useless.
When these requirements are prioritized using MoSCoW, which of the following categories will not be used?

Question15: A business analyst is in the process of validating a set of requirements produced for a new business initiative and the following needs agreement:
That the requirements...
1) Are within the scope of the project.
2) Can be verified when they have been implemented.
3) Express business needs clearly and correctly.
Who is responsible for this agreement?

Question16: A practice guide for requirements elicitation offers the following information:
Disadvantage: Likely to be particularly time-consuming to conduct.
Disadvantage: Difficult to separate fact from opinion.
Advantage: Provides an opportunity to build rapport.
Advantage: Provides an opportunity to experience the business environment.
To which elicitation method does this extract refer?

Question17: A zoo is in the process of introducing a new IT system to improve its processes and drive greater efficiency in its operations. It has received permission from the board of directors for a phased approach to introduce new business functionality and to replace manual processes with digital solutions.
The key areas for inclusion in the first phase are a new animal health monitoring system, which will allow the zookeepers to utilize the power of data analytics to monitor and proactively manage the health of the animals.
It will also provide them with a way of accurately recording the birth of new animals and record loans of animals to other zoos around the world.
On the public-facing side, the project will provide customers with an adoption scheme, which will raise much-needed funds.
A business analyst has constructed a use case diagram for the zoo:

The following potential statements have been made about the diagram:
A) The diagram is a correct representation of the scenario.
B) There are aspects of the scenario which are incorrectly represented in the diagram.
C) There are aspects of the scenario which are incorrectly omitted from the diagram.
D) The notation used in the diagram is incorrect.
Which of them is/are true?

Question18: 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?

Question19: Make Me A Star Productions runs an annual talent competition for aspiring amateur singers.

Four business rules have been identified:
1) A contestant is allowed to sing 1 or 2 songs in a performance.
2) An audition may be attended by up to 50 contestants.
3) A contestant is always given an audition.
4) A song can only be used in one performance.
Which of these business rule(s) can be found to be correctly represented in the class diagram?

Question20: 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?