FCBA Online Practice Questions and Answers

An analyst has discovered that a company wishes to hold information about departments and employees. A department may have many employees in it, but each employee can, at any one time, only work in one department. There is no requirement to store historical information. However, there are currently eight departments and over one hundred employees. How would this relationship be shown on an Entity Relationship diagram?

A. As (8..100) at the Department end of the relationship.

B. As a many-to-many between Department and Employee.

C. As a one-to-one between Department and Employee.

D. As a one-to-many between Department and Employee.

An analyst investigating a finance system wishes to build rapport with individual stakeholders and investigate in detail each stakeholder's views. Which of the following techniques should the analyst use?

A. Questionnaires.

B. Interviewing.

C. Special purpose records.

D. Document analysis.

What is the MoSCoW principle used for?

A. To analyse stakeholders.

B. To determine strategy.

C. To define a root definition.

D. To prioritise requirements.

The entity relationship model below shows the relationship between Product and Order. Which of the following business rules is correct and is reflected in the diagram?

A. The maximum number of products on one order is eight.

B. The maximum number of products on one order is unlimited.

C. The minimum number of orders for each product is one.

D. The minimum number of products on each order is zero.

What occurs at handoffs when two actors do not synchronise their work?

A. Errors.

B. Queues.

C. Functions.

D. Decisions.

The table below shows the costs and savings associated with a project. In which of the following years does the project break even?

A. Year 2.

B. Year 3.

C. Year 4.

D. The project does not pay back within the four year period.

Which of the following approaches is the variation of the Waterfall lifecycle that shows explicitly the link between the analysis stages and the testing stages?

A. V model.

B. Spiral model.

C. Unified process.

D. Workflow model.

An analyst investigating a sales system wishes to ask questions about how a customer order form is completed in the current system. What investigation technique is the analyst using?

A. Activity sampling.

B. Protocol analysis.

C. Document analysis

D. Structured observation.

The following is a list of statements about stakeholders and stakeholder management.

a.

A customer can be considered as a stakeholder in a project.

b.

A supplier can be considered as a stakeholder in a project.

c.

Stakeholders' positions do not remain static during the life of the project.

d.

Communication must not be tailored to each stakeholder in the project.

Which of the following is correct?

A. Statements a, b and c are correct, statement d is incorrect.

B. All four statements are correct.

C. Statements a and c are correct, statements b and d are incorrect.

D. Statements b and c are correct, statements a and d are incorrect.

When should benefits realisation be carried out?

A. Immediately at the end of the project.

B. At the beginning of the project.

C. At the end of the finalised feasibility study.

D. Months or years after the end of the project.