s@lm@niSQIExam IREBIREB Certified Professional for Requirements EngineeringVersion: 7.1[ Total Questions: 45 ]You are project manager for a system that your company is creating for the military in the field of logistics. A requirements engineer has been assigned to your project but does not have all the desirable skills for this role. In respect to the attributes of the requirements engineer, which of the following statements implies the greatest risk for the requirementsengineering? (1 Point)A. The requirements engineer is not familiar with the military ranks and so cannot dealadequately with the hierarchical sensitivities.B. The requirements engineer does not have detailed knowledge of the military norms andstandards that should be applied to the system.C. The requirements engineer has no solid project management training.D. The requirements engineer is introverted and has no knowledge of requirementselicitation and documentation.Answer: DWhich of the following statements best characterizes the relationship between arequirements engineer and a stakeholder in the role of a tester? (1 Point)A. The requirements engineer delivers input for the work of the stakeholder.B. The output from the requirements engineer is managed by the stakeholder.C. The stakeholder delivers input for the requirements engineer.D. The stakeholder monitors the work of the requirements engineer.E. The work of the requirements engineer is not related to the role of the stakeholder.Answer: AWhich sentence best characterises the term "stakeholder"? (1 Point)A. The external actors interacting with a system and the technical interfaces to surroundingsystems are designated as stakeholders.B. Stakeholders are persons and organisations affected by the development and the use ofthe system or of the product.Question No : 1Question No : 2Question No : 3iSQI IREB : Practice Test"A Composite Solution With Just One Click" - Certification Guaranteed 2C. Stakeholders are special interest representatives who are responsible for the approvalof the first project phase.D. A stakeholder is responsible for the administration of the software developmentenvironment.Answer: BYou are assigned to carry out and document a system and context delimitation for asoftware system that is to be developed. What diagram is least suited for therepresentation of the delimitation? (1 Point)A. Class diagramB. Use case diagramC. StatediagramD. Context diagram with data flowsAnswer: CAccording to the Kano model, there is a particular category of system attributes that has analmost linear relationship between satisfaction and degree of compliance.For which category is this so? (1 Point)A. Basic attributesB. Performance attributesC. Excitement attributesD. NeedsE. GoalsAnswer: BAs part of the "UniKasso" project, the "CRETIL" company is standardising the paymentQuestion No : 4Question No : 5Question No : 6iSQI IREB : Practice Test"A Composite Solution With Just One Click" - Certification Guaranteed 3methods for all customers. The requirements specification has been created and the firstrelease is currently being implemented.This week, the management has decided to include the implementation of the "credit card"mode of payment in the first release and to shift the "direct debit" mode of payment to thesecond release. The test manager receives the order to adjust the test planningaccordingly.Which particular characteristic of the requirements will facilitate the work of the testmanager significantly in this respect? (1 Point)A. CoherenceB. TestabilityC. FlexibilityD. StabilityE. TraceabilityAnswer: EStarting from an informal and unstructured description of the facts, semiformal descriptiontechniques attempt to take a step in the direction of formality, for example to preventmisunderstandings. One of the semiformal description techniques is the sentencetemplate.What is the most precise definition of a sentence-template as used forrequirements? (1 Point)A. A sentence-template is a blueprint for a requirement.B. A sentence-template is a blueprint for the semantic filling of the individual requirementelements.C. A sentence-template is a blueprint for the syntax and semantics of a requirement.D. A sentence-template is a blueprint for the syntactical structure of an individualrequirement.Answer: DAt a technical college, each student is supervised by a lecturer. Some lecturers superviseseveral students, some none. Which of the following class diagrams best shows thisQuestion No : 7Question No : 8iSQI IREB : Practice Test"A Composite Solution With Just One Click" - Certification Guaranteed 4student-lecturer relationship? (2 Points)A. Option AB. Option BC. Option CD. Option DAnswer: BQuestion No : 9iSQI IREB : Practice Test"A Composite Solution With Just One Click" - Certification Guaranteed 5You model invoices and invoice items with a UML class diagram. Explanation: The totalamount of an invoice is calculated by summing up all individual invoice items. This meansthat an invoice showing 5 article prices contains 5 invoice items. What model element mostaccurately describes the relationship between invoice and invoice items? (1 Point)A. CompositionB. AggregationC. GeneralisationD. AssociationAnswer: AYou carry out modelling of requirements with a use case diagram. Which answer bestdescribes its prospective modelling elements? (1 Point)A. Objects, activities and associationsB. Actors, messages and activitiesC. Objects, use cases and activitiesD. Actors, use cases and associationsAnswer: DThe activity diagram below shows a simplified order processing procedure. Which of thefollowing statements is correct for this flow? (2 Points)A. The flow is not modelled correctly, since no condition (branch)should be present within afork.B. The flow is modelled correctly: the goods branch as well as the export and domesticorder branch are processed in parallel to one another.C. The flow is not modelled correctly, since the branches for the domestic and exportorders must be consolidated via a diamond symbol.D. The flow is modelled correctly and the "issue invoice" activity is conducted after thecompile goods" activity.Answer: CQuestion No : 10Question No : 11iSQI IREB : Practice Test"A Composite Solution With Just One Click" - Certification Guaranteed 6For an interview, you have prepared a use case diagram for the system to be specified.You decide to talk through a use case in detail with the stakeholder. You receive veryuseful feedback which must now be documented. Which of the following means ofexpression is least suitable to document the details of a single use case? (1 Point)A. State diagramB. Activity diagramC. Natural languageD. Context diagramE. Class diagramAnswer: DIn a meeting held with the goal of validating a set of requirements, two participants becomeinvolved in an in-depth discussion about the content of a requirement. One of theparticipants is of the opinion that the requirement must be realized as described, since thesuccess of the product is otherwise jeopardized. The other party dissents and argues thatthis requirement cannot be realized technically as described. What is the best way for youto react to this situation? (1 Point)A. You note both arguments and let the project manager make the decision.B. You invite all stakeholders to a workshop and try to reach agreement.C. You prefer the second opinion since you believe that the discussion makes no sense ifthe requirement cannot be realized.D. You get together with the affected stakeholders and attempt to reach an agreement onthis.Answer: DWithin system development, conflicts continually arise between stakeholders with regard toQuestion No : 12Question No : 13Question No : 14iSQI IREB : Practice Test"A Composite Solution With Just One Click" - Certification Guaranteed 7the requirements. As a requirements engineer, how do you handle conflicts in projectsbest? (1 Point)A. You resolve the conflict with the best resolution technique available to you.B. You analyze the conflict, try to bring about a solution with a suitable technique anddocument relevant information about the conflict.C. You ignore the conflict since this is a matter for project management.D. In order to resolve such conflicts you escalate them via the escalation paths defined inthe project.Answer: BOne activity in managing requirements includes prioritization of the requirements. Which ofthe following criteria is not a sensible criterion for prioritization? (1 Point)A. The impact on the existing operational system (operating environment)B. The influence on the overall success of the businessC. The effort for the validation of the requirementsD. The costs resulting from the implementation of the requirementsE. Which requirements must be implemented in which releaseAnswer: CWhich definition best characterizes the term "traceability" in terms of requirementsengineering? (2 Points)A. Traceability of the effort for the elicitation of requirements, beginning with the elicitationof the documentation right to the point of requirements acceptanceB. Monitoring of progress in requirements elicitationC. Ability to analyze requirements for contradictory content, especially between therequirements specifications and the test casesD. Traceability of the requirements, along with the associated documents, from therequirements elicitation to the implementationE. Level of stabilisation between the elicited and approved requirementsQuestion No : 15Question No : 16iSQI IREB : Practice Test"A Composite Solution With Just One Click" - Certification Guaranteed 8Answer: DIn requirements engineering, a differentiation is made between system scope and contextscope. In both cases it is possible that so-called grey zones may appear. For eachstatement, indicate if it is true or false. (2 Points)Answer: B, C, E, GAnswer:You are employed as a requirements engineer in a company in the logistics sector and areinvolved in a project that aims to replace a legacy application for distribution and shipmentof goods with a new system. A colleague has already created a context diagram. You areassigned to check this. What are your thoughts about this? Indicate for each statementwhether it is true or false. (3 Points)Question No : 17 CORRECT TEXTQuestion No : 18 CORRECT TEXTiSQI IREB : Practice Test"A Composite Solution With Just One Click" - Certification Guaranteed 9Answer: A, C, F, GAnswer:You wish to define technically relevant terms in a project. Indicate true or false for thefollowing statements in order to complete the sentence beginning "The definition oftechnically relevant terms " (2 Points)Answer: B, C, F, GAnswer:Question No : 19 CORRECT TEXTiSQI IREB : Practice Test"A Composite Solution With Just One Click" - Certification Guaranteed 10Evaluate the following guidelines as to whether they should or should not be adhered towhen writing a requirements specification: (2 Points)Answer: B, C, F, G, J, K, M, PAnswer:Assess the following statements about the natural language documentation ofrequirements in terms of being applicable or not applicable. (2 Points)Question No : 20 CORRECT TEXTQuestion No : 21 CORRECT TEXTiSQI IREB : Practice Test"A Composite Solution With Just One Click" - Certification Guaranteed 11Answer: B, D, F, H, JAnswer:The following state diagram is to be found in a requirements specification for an ordermanagement system.Which of the following requirements is consistent with the diagram and which are not? (2Points)Answer: A, D, F, GAnswer:Question No : 22 CORRECT TEXTiSQI IREB : Practice Test"A Composite Solution With Just One Click" - Certification Guaranteed 12Which of the following elements are elements of a state diagram and which are not?Please indicate true or false. (1 Point)Answer: A, C, E, H, JAnswer:Question No : 23 CORRECT TEXTQuestion No : 24 CORRECT TEXTiSQI IREB : Practice Test"A Composite Solution With Just One Click" - Certification Guaranteed 13Requirements must be checked in terms of content, documentation and agreement.Indicate with regard to this whether each statement is true or false. (2 Points)Answer: B, D, F, HAnswer:Listed below you will find four reasons why different views of individual components of therequirements are used instead of a single view displaying all the requirements andattributes. Which of the following reasons are true and which are false? (2 Points)Answer: A, C, E, HQuestion No : 25 CORRECT TEXTiSQI IREB : Practice Test"A Composite Solution With Just One Click" - Certification Guaranteed 14Answer:A requirement specification includes a description of the properties of the requirement.Which of the properties listed below can be used as requirement attributes and whichcannot? Please indicate true or false. (2 Points)Answer: A, C, E, G, IAnswer:You have been commissioned to analyze a change request for its possible impact. Whichof the following aspects must be analyzed for this? (2 Points)Question No : 26 CORRECT TEXTQuestion No : 27 CORRECT TEXTiSQI IREB : Practice Test"A Composite Solution With Just One Click" - Certification Guaranteed 15Answer: B, C, E, GAnswer:You are employed as a requirements engineer in a company that develops control softwarefor electric motors. During your work it becomes increasingly evident that the developersare very well aware of the necessary requirements, even though the requirements are notdocumented in their entirety. Nevertheless, you decide to document requirementssystematically.Which two of the following arguments justifies this step? (2 Points)Documenting requirements systematically is important, because...A. implementation without documented requirements is not possible.B. non-documented requirements are difficult to negotiate between the stakeholders.C. the coverage of the requirements by means of test cases cannot be checked.D. documented requirements are also good requirements.Answer: B,CIn delimiting system and system context, a differentiation is made between the systemQuestion No : 28Question No : 29iSQI IREB : Practice Test"A Composite Solution With Just One Click" - Certification Guaranteed 16boundary and the context boundary. This differentiation is important in order to understandwhich aspects impact on the requirements of the system to be developed and which do not.Choose the two correct statements. (2 Points)A. The context boundary separates the system from the system context.B. The system boundary and the context boundary define the system context.C. The system context includes all aspects that are not relevant to the requirements of theplanned system.D. Only the aspects within the system boundary must be taken into account in order todetermine the requirements of the system to be developed.E. The selection of the system boundary establishes which aspects are covered by thesystem to be developed and which lie beyond its scope.Answer: A,BWhich two pieces of information should always be recorded in the stakeholder list? (1Point)A. Importance of the stakeholdersB. Role designationC. Length of service with a companyD. Disciplinary superiorE. References to previously conducted projectsAnswer: B,CReference: ftp://cs.pitt.edu/chang/handbook/01REQ.pdf (Stakeholder identification, 2nd,3rd, 4th and 5th paragraph)A new system for monitoring vital functions of patients is to be developed. The system is tobe used in intensive care. The usability of the system is especially critical, primarilybecause the nursing staff must correctly interpret the information indicated by the systemand do sounder great time pressure.Question No : 30Question No : 31iSQI IREB : Practice Test"A Composite Solution With Just One Click" - Certification Guaranteed 17Which two techniques are best suited to identifying the user requirements? (2 Points)A. Questionnaires / interviewsB. ApprenticingC. Field surveysD. Role playingE. BrainstormingAnswer: A,DRequirements elicitation: Your company has received a customer contract to develop asystem for the scheduling of the customers delivery vans.It is your task to identify the requirements for this scheduling system. You have arrangedappointments for interviews with three key members of the customers staff, and are nowpreparing interview questions.Which of the questions below are appropriate interview questions for the requirementselicitation? (2 Points)A. What are the most important technical terms for the application and how are theydefined?B. If the delivery deadline is not met, is a contract penalty to be paid?C. What data quantities / data rates are to be processed?D. When is the installation of the completed system to be started?Answer: CYou would like to design a requirements document in such a way that it is particularly wellsuited to the project participants who are to continue working with it. Please select from thefollowing statements the two most appropriate assignments of requirement properties toparticipants. (1 Point)A. For the tester the requirements must be practicable.B. For the developers the requirements must be easily changeable.C. For all participants the requirements must be consistent.Question No : 32Question No : 33iSQI IREB : Practice Test"A Composite Solution With Just One Click" - Certification Guaranteed 18D. For the project manager the requirements must be evaluated.E. For maintenance the requirements must be testable.Answer: C,DSentence-templates can be used to document natural language requirements. You want tointroduce such a sentence-template in your project and must convince your projectmanager of its advantages. Which two arguments do most likely put forward in thisdiscussion? (2 Points)A. High quality requirements are guaranteed already from the initial documentation.B. Requirements that are formulated according to the sentence-template contain nolinguistic transformation effects.C. Drafting requirements in accordance with sentence-templates can be learned in a shorttime.D. The use of a sentence-template basically delivers greater information content.E. A requirement drafted according to a sentence-template satisfies all quality criteria forrequirements.Answer: A,BAs a requirements engineer, you deal with a diverse range of requirements. A template fornatural language functional requirements can help you to formulate different forms ofsystem activities in a more precise way. Which two kinds of system activities are amongthose supported? (1 Point)A. User interactionB. Technical requirementC. Quality requirementsD. Independent system activityE. System requirementAnswer: A,DQuestion No : 34Question No : 35iSQI IREB : Practice Test"A Composite Solution With Just One Click" - Certification Guaranteed 19You are to create a requirements specification for an internet banking software. The systemshall perform bank credit transfers and therefore receives from the user, among otherinformation, the bank identification code and the name of the bank. Now things havechanged so that only the bank identification code must be entered by the user and the bankname is no longer required. On which part of your documentation do you most likely haveto work in order to incorporate this change? (2 Points)A. Nowhere, since this is a detail for the architecture.B. In the chapter in which the statesof the system are described.C. As a change in the goals has been communicated, the goals in the specification must beupdated.D. If it is about inputs and outputs of the system, this changehas to be worked into thecontext diagram.E. You have to adjust the class model and/or the data model, which describe the structureof the systems input and output data.Answer: C,DIn order to document a door system for a underground railway system, the following activitydiagram has been modelled. You reconcile this diagram with your notes. Which two of thefollowing notes were not represented in the diagram? (1 Point)Your notes:A. Double pressing of the door button countermands the currently running action.B. The tread is pulled in once the door is closed.C. The light-emitting diode is deactivated at the end of the process.D. If the door is open, it is subsequently closed.E. If the door is closed, it is subsequently opened.Answer: A,CAs input for the system development, the Board of Directors of an automotive manufacturerQuestion No : 36Question No : 37Question No : 38iSQI IREB : Practice Test"A Composite Solution With Just One Click" - Certification Guaranteed 20has specified the following goals:1. The infotainment system should be easy to operate.2. The user must be able to operate the system without becoming distracted from the roadtraffic.3. The system should function without an additional power source.4. The system should be configurable for various models of car.With which two approaches can these goals be detailed and refined best? (2 Points)A. Clear specification of the goals with the help of use casesand the associated activitydiagrams.B. Documentation of the goals in a sequence diagram.C. Decomposition of the goals with the help of goaltrees, in order to obtain more concretegoals.D. Formulation of other goals, since the given goals are not feasible.Answer: A,BIn requirements engineering, the use of model-based documentation is very helpful.Behaviour, functions and the structures of the entity being considered can be representedwith diagrams. Which two of the following diagrams help to represent the structuralperspective of the requirements model? (1 Point)A. Entity-relationship diagramB. State diagramC. Deployment diagramD. Class diagramE. Data diagramAnswer: A,DRequirements documentation can either be natural language or model-based. Which twoQuestion No : 39Question No : 40iSQI IREB : Practice Test"A Composite Solution With Just One Click" - Certification Guaranteed 21statements are most applicable? (2 Points)A. If documentation is model-based, natural language documentation can be dispensedwith.B. As models are more formal, they offer a higher degree of uniqueness compared tonatural language.C. In requirements engineering models are more suitable than textual descriptions toreduce the complexity of the entity being considered.D. When deciding between model-based and natural language documentation, modelbasedis preferable.Answer: A,BOne task of the requirements engineer is negotiation of requirements. At this point, conflictsbetween the stakeholders may be discovered. These must then be resolved. In thisprocess, a differentiation is made between various kinds of conflict. Which two of the listedconflicts are least suitable for handling by the requirements engineer? (1 Point)A. Subject matter conflictB. Value conflictC. Architectural conflictD. Cost conflictE. Structural conflictAnswer: C,DReference: http://www.certifiedre.de/fileadmin/IREB/Lehrplaene/IREB_cpre_syllabus_FL_en_v21.pdf (page 26,requirements negotiation)Validating requirements is one of the main activities of requirements engineering. Whichfour of the following techniques are suitable for requirements validation? (2 Points)Question No : 41Question No : 42iSQI IREB : Practice Test"A Composite Solution With Just One Click" - Certification Guaranteed 22A. Stakeholder analysisB. Walk throughC. RankingD. MonitoringE. DecompositionF. ApprenticingG. GeneralizationH. Validation by using an interface prototypeI. Perspective-based readingJ. InspectionK. VisualizationAnswer: B,H,I,JReference: http://www.certifiedre.de/fileadmin/IREB/Lehrplaene/IREB_cpre_syllabus_FL_en_v21.pdf (page 26, first 6bulleted points on the page)Your company uses only text processing as a tool in requirements management. Whichtwo essential tasks for requirements management are least supported by this tool? (1Point)A. Version management of individual requirementsB. Generation of result documentsC. Requirements tracingD. Creation of graphic modelsE. Documentation of requirements and goalsAnswer: C,DYour company works intensively with models in requirements engineering and uses UMLfor the description of models. Which three capabilities should a modeling tool possess inorder to be able to create traceable models in the requirements engineering? (3 Points)Question No : 43Question No : 44iSQI IREB : Practice Test"A Composite Solution With Just One Click" - Certification Guaranteed 23A. The model elements can be stored under version controlB. The models are checked for conformity with the UML definitionC. The model is exported in the XML formatD. Every model element must possess an IDE. Model elements can be linked via hyperlinksF. The modeling tool creates reports suitable for managementAnswer: A,C,EWhich two statements are correct with regard to the introduction of a requirementsengineering tool? (2 Points)A. The introduction of a tool defines the future requirements engineering approachB. Risks associated with the introduction can be identified through a pilot operationC. The requirements engineering processes must be clearly defined before introductionD. The license costs are generally the greatest cost block relating to the introduction of arequirements engineering toolAnswer: C,DQuestion No : 45iSQI IREB : Practice Test"A Composite Solution With Just One Click" - Certification Guaranteed 24