IREB Online Practice Questions and Answers

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 requirements engineering? (1 Point)

A. The requirements engineer is not familiar with the military ranks and so cannot deal adequately with the hierarchical sensitivities.

B. The requirements engineer does not have detailed knowledge of the military norms and standards 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 requirements elicitation and documentation.

Starting from an informal and unstructured description of the facts, semiformal description techniques

attempt to take a step in the direction of formality, for example to prevent misunderstandings. One of the

semiformal description techniques is the sentence-template.

What is the most precise definition of a sentence-template as used for requirements? (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 requirement elements.

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 individual requirement.

At a technical college, each student is supervised by a lecturer. Some lecturers supervise several students, some none. Which of the following class diagrams best shows this student-lecturer relationship? (2 Points)

A. Option A

B. Option B

C. Option C

D. Option D

You model invoices and invoice items with a UML class diagram. Explanation: The total amount of an invoice is calculated by summing up all individual invoice items. This means that an invoice showing 5 article prices contains 5 invoice items. What model element most accurately describes the relationship between invoice and invoice items? (1 Point)

A. Composition

B. Aggregation

C. Generalisation

D. Association

You wish to define technically relevant terms in a project. Indicate true or false for the following statements in order to complete the sentence beginning "The definition of technically relevant terms ..." (2 Points)

A. A

B. B

C. C

D. D

E. E

F. F

G. G

H. H

Evaluate the following guidelines as to whether they should or should not be adhered to when writing a requirements specification: (2 Points)

A. A

B. B

C. C

D. D

E. E

F. F

G. G

H. H

I. I

J. J

K. K

L. L

M. M

N. N

O. O

P. P

Assess the following statements about the natural language documentation of requirements in terms of being applicable or not applicable. (2 Points)

A. A

B. B

C. C

D. D

E. E

F. F

G. G

H. H

I. I

J. J

Requirements elicitation: Your company has received a customer contract to develop a system for the scheduling of the customer's delivery vans. It is your task to identify the requirements for this scheduling system. You have arranged appointments for interviews with three key members of the customer's staff, and are now preparing interview questions. Which of the questions below are appropriate interview questions for the requirements elicitation? (2 Points)

A. What are the most important technical terms for the application and how are they defined?

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?

One task of the requirements engineer is negotiation of requirements. At this point, conflicts between the stakeholders may be discovered. These must then be resolved. In this process, a differentiation is made between various kinds of conflict. Which two of the listed conflicts are least suitable for handling by the requirements engineer? (1 Point)

A. Subject matter conflict

B. Value conflict

C. Architectural conflict

D. Cost conflict

E. Structural conflict

Your company works intensively with models in requirements engineering and uses UML for the description of models. Which three capabilities should a modeling tool possess in order to be able to create traceable models in the requirements engineering? (3 Points)

A. The model elements can be stored under version control

B. The models are checked for conformity with the UML definition

C. The model is exported in the XML format

D. Every model element must possess an ID

E. Model elements can be linked via hyperlinks

F. Themodelingtool creates reports suitable for management