You are the business analyst for your organization and are working on a solution that will connect several databases to a web application. You are concerned that the databases may not be operable with the software solution a programmer is recommending. What requirements elicitation technique can help you determine the interoperability of the software, the databases, and the web application?
Which of the following reports is generated whenever the project is slipping off the project schedule and includes an of the problem?
A health insurance provider undertakes enhancements to its mobile application platform and finalizes the following capabilities as part of the scope of the next release:
I. Ability to integrate online maps and global positioning system (GPS) technology with the mobile application in real time to display location of service providers in the subscriber's vicinity that participate in the subscriber's plan network.
II. Ability for the subscriber to lookup the service providers by specifying either a postal code or a search area radius in miles.
III. Ability for the subscriber to initiate the download of fee information for one or more service providers in a single request.
Through requirements workshops the business analyst elicits the following detailed business requirements:
1. The company's mobile application platform must support real time integration with the following third party systems:
A ) GPS System
B ) Postal Code Validation
2. The service providers available for selection must participate in the subscriber's medical plan network as of the current system date.
3. The map display shall highlight the boundary of the search area with a dotted yellow line.
4. The extent and shape of the search area shall be determined based on one of the following user choices:
A ) Postal code - Subscriber location acquired from GPS shall be used to determine and populate the related postal code as the default postal code with options for the user to change the postal code.
B ) Radius for the search area around the subscriber's location, that will have default value of 5 miles. The radius can be changed by the subscriber with a maximum range of 50 miles.
5. Subscriber shall be able to select one of the options above and supply corresponding input.
6. System shall validate the user input and display appropriate error messages if invalid.
7. Based on the inputs and the plan of the subscriber, the system shall retrieve information for the participating service providers that are located within the designated search area.
8. System shall display a map including visual markers to indicate locations of the service providers in the top half of the device screen and a list of the same service providers in the bottom half of the device screen.
9. The list of service providers shall include the Name, Phone Number and Street Address.
10. If the subscriber specified the radius or retained the default postal code for the search area, the list shall additionally include the approximate driving distance in miles from the subscriber's last registered location and the list shall be sorted in the ascending order of the driving distance.
11. The subscriber shall be able to select a service provider either from the list or from the map and download a document that contains the name, contact telephone, email address, fax number and the fee schedule for the covered services applicable to the subscriber's plan.
What kind of relationship is used to describe the traceability between requirement 8 and the solution artifacts that implement it?
An insurance company wants to implement a business intelligence solution to consolidate data from various different internal systems to provide a better understanding of their customer base.
A business analyst (BA) is engaged to put together a tender (bid) to be sent to various business intelligence providers and implementation partners. Among other information, the business analyst requests the following:
* Licensing costs for Year 0 based on meeting 1 Central Processing Unit (CPU) license
* Licensing costs for specific user types such as Report Creators. Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) users and Power uses Predicted licensing costs for renewing in Years 1 ad 2
* Full implementation costs
After reviewing the received vendor responses the project team shortlists the candidates to 3 and the BA structures the received information as follows:
The BA also conducts a sensitivity analysis to compare the expected costs should the company's needs grow based on the following information:
Scenario 1: Ten extra report creator, 1 extra OLAP user and 1 extra power user licenses and 2 extra CPU licenses Scenario 2: Twenty five extra report creator, 1 extra OLAP user and 1 extra power user licenses and 3 extra CPU licenses
The insurance company has a maximum budget of $810,000 for the entire implementation and operation over the first three years. Which vendor or vendors meet that criteria?
Which of the following is described in the statement below?
"It shows the history and pattern of variation. It is a line graph that shows data points plotted in the order in which they occur. They show trends in a process over time, variation over time, or declines or improvements in a process over time. Trend analysis is performed using them."
