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While gathering requirements for a new community playground, you realize that the best thing for you to do is to create conceptual models and get approvals from the board after each step. What term best describes the models that you are creating?

A. Focus groups
B. Pilots
C. The Delphi technique
D. Prototypes

Answer: D. Prototypes
Prototypes is a tool & technique of the Collect Requirements process. Prototyping allows you to get a unfinished, working model approved before actually building the product. This is a valuable checkpoint can be tangible (e.g. miniature model) or intangible (e.g. CAD drawing) and can be crucial in obtaining early feedback during requirements.

One way to describe the Collect Requirements Process is that it documents the stakeholders’ __________ to meet the __________.

A. Wants, target end date
B. Demands, needs
C. Expectations, quality standards
D. Needs, project objectives

Answer: D. Needs, project objectives
Collecting Requirements includes defining and documenting the needs of the stakeholders in order to reach the objectives of the project.

Which tools and techniques are used during the Collect Requirements process?

A. Interviews and focus groups
B. Product analysis and inspection
C. WBS and WBS dictionary
D. Variance analysis and decomposition

Answer: A. Interviews and focus groups
The Collect Requirements process tools and techniques include interviews, focus groups, facilitated workshops, group creativity techniques, group decision making techniques, questionnaires and surveys, observations, and prototypes.

As a result of the Collect Requirements process, you could have:

A. Requirements documentation, project scope statement, WBS
B. Requirements documentation, requirements management plan
C. Project scope statement, requirements management plan
D. WBS, WBS dictionary

Answer: B. Requirements documentation, requirements management plan
The potential outputs of the Collect Requirements process are requirements documentation, requirements management plan, and requirements traceability matrix.

On a project to build a new corporate intranet, the project manager makes a request that you, her mentor, to help her collect requirements. She lays out a plan and asks you if you prefer to help her with interviewing stakeholders or creating prototypes. However, before deciding, you want to ensure that she is ready to start this step. Which of the following is the most appropriate?

A. Review the WBS to ensure that the tasks are necessary
B. Ask her if which task she needs more guidance with
C. Ensure that the schedule is realistic and can accommodate both tasks
D. Ask her if she has an approved project charter

Answer: D. Ask her if she has an approved project charter
The project charter, along with stakeholder register, is an input to the Collect Requirements process. Without the approved charter, the project does not exist and therefore, any requirements work would be premature. None of the other choices should even be considered unless the charter is signed, which gives the project the go-ahead.