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Requirements Life Cycle Mgmt Quiz

1. When defining a traceability approach a BA
considers all of the following types of
relationships except:

a. Validate
b. Derive
c. Satisfy
d. Verify
Answer: D
Requirements Traceability cannot be used to
verify the quality of the requirements.
2. Abby and her stakeholders are facing a situation where
they have realised that all the requirements for the project
cannot be implemented and rolled out as per their
expectations. They decide to keep the deadline in mind and
start removing requirements which are of lesser priority as
compared to others. Which technique is Abby using?

a. Voting
b. Grouping
c. Time-boxing
d. Ranking
Answer: C
Time-boxing technique involves looking at the
available time and deciding how much can be
achieved.
3. You have been hired as the business analyst in an ongoing
initiative. You have completed requirements elicitation and
documentation. You now want to review the requirements and
obtain signoff. In order to understand who has the authority to
approve requirements along with when to expect approval, which
of the following would be primarily helpful?:

a. Organizational modelling
b. Governance approach
c. Legal/regulatory information
d. Stakeholder engagement approach
Answer: B
The governance approach identifies the
stakeholders who have the authority to approve
business analysis information and the timing of
approvals.
4. Jonathan received an email from his stakeholder that they
cannot approve the requirement document that he has
shared with them. Jonathan had informed to the Project
Manager that he emailed the requirement document to the
stakeholder for review and approval. What should Jonathan
do next?

a. Confront the stakeholder about this non-co-operation

b. Ask the Project Manager to escalate this to the Sponsor so
that he can make the stakeholders sign-off the document
c. Don’t do anything. The document will be considered to be
approved once the deadline exceeds
d. Schedule a requirement document walkthrough with the
stakeholders
Answer: D
Jonathan had only emailed them the document.
May be the stakeholders have some doubts or
suggestions. Jonathan will not come to know
these unless he walks them through the
document listening to their feedback.
5. Rahul is a business analyst working on a eCommerce project. He
is studying the product backlog to explore what the team can work
on in the next sprint. He will have to analyzed in detail the work
before grooming it with the team.

Look at the options below and help Rahul choose what he should
work on first.

a. A feature similar to their competitor that they added last week,

which helps users to refer friends to the site.
b. A feature requested by the finance department related to a new
government rule that will become applicable from next quarter
c. A bug regarding product filtering that has been reported by
users.
d. An old calculation logic that needs to be updated before the
team starts working on a new feature.
Answer: C
Rahul should analyse the bug first. In terms of
priority, any item that has been labelled as
“urgent” should be taken up immediately.
Customer facing bugs are usually urgent.