A leading software manufacturing company has appointed a business analyst (BA) to ensure that requirements are managed effectively and efficiently. The BA discovered some missing functionality as well as some implemented functionality which are not supported by requirements.
Which of the following tasks did the BA use to discover the issues?
Trace Requirements is the correct task for discovering missing functionality and identifying implemented functionality that is not supported by requirements. This task involves verifying the relationship between requirements and their traceability to ensure all requirements are captured and implemented correctly. By tracing requirements, a business analyst can identify gaps and inconsistencies, thereby ensuring the solution conforms to the requirements.
Trace Requirements
Babok v3 5.1.2 - Trace Requirements
BABOK V.3 Pg 79 Requirements traceability identifies and documents the lineage of each requirement, including its backward traceability, its forward traceability, and its relationship to other requirements. Traceability is used to help ensure that the solution conforms to requirements and to assist in scope, change, risk, time, cost, and communication management. "It is also used to detect missing functionality or to identify if there is implemented functionality that is not supported by any requirement."
IMHO Answer is A 7.4.1 Purpose The purpose of Define Requirements Architecture is to ensure that the requirements collectively support one another to fully achieve the objectives. .4 Relate and Verify Requirements Relationships Requirements may be related to each other in several ways when defining the requirements architecture. Business analysts examine and analyze the requirements to define the relationships between them. The representation of these relationships is provided by tracing requirements (see Trace Requirements (p. 79)). Business analysts examine each relationship to ensure that the relationships satisfy the following quality criteria...
Correct Ans D refer to BABOK V.3 Pg 79 Read the description of Trace requirement task.
On the one hand, you are right. If we are speaking about the first part of the question, 'requirements are managed effectively and efficiently,' this is about Define Requirements Architecture. But then there is the specification: ' The BA discovered some missing functionality as well as some implemented functionality which are not supported by requirements'. This statement is from the Trace Requirements technique. 5.1.2 "It is also used to detect missing functionality or to identify if there is implemented functionality that is not supported by any requirement." I think, correct answer - D