Free BCS Foundation Certificate in Digital Solution Development Practice Questions

Sample Practice Questions

Try these 10 sample questions from the BCS Foundation Certificate in Digital Solution Development practice bank. Each includes the answer and explanation. Continue with the interactive practice above to review the full question set.

1. 1An enterprise uses application and telecommunications technology as the technical means of delivering information to customers. What term does the guidance use for those technical means?

   1. A.Digital solutionCorrect answer: A
   2. B.Digital service
   3. C.Application software
   4. D.Systems software

   Explanation: The guidance states, "A digital solution refers to the technical means of delivering a digital service, using information technology". The application and infrastructure are the means of delivery; the electronic delivery itself is the digital service.

   Reference: BCS Foundation Certificate in Digital Solution Development Syllabus Detailed Guidance V1.0 — p. 4, section 1.1.1

2. 2A business analyst presents proposed service requirements to the sponsor and other stakeholders for review and sign-off. Which requirements engineering activity is being performed?

   1. A.Elicitation
   2. B.Analysis
   3. C.ValidationCorrect answer: C
   4. D.Documentation

   Explanation: The guidance states, "Validation is the process whereby the requirements that define the service to be built or altered are presented to the Sponsor, Product Owner, and other stakeholders, for their review and sign-off." This is the activity described.

   Reference: BCS Foundation Certificate in Digital Solution Development Syllabus Detailed Guidance V1.0 — p. 13, section 2.1.2.3

3. 3A design team agrees standards for colors, fonts, branding, and controls across an enterprise application interface. Which artifact records these standards?

   1. A.A UI style guideCorrect answer: A
   2. B.A UI wireframe
   3. C.A UI storyboard
   4. D.A UI navigation map

   Explanation: The guidance states, "A Style Guide provides information on standards to be used in designing the UI." It lists colors, fonts, branding and use of controls as examples.

   Reference: BCS Foundation Certificate in Digital Solution Development Syllabus Detailed Guidance V1.0 — p. 28, section 3.1.2

4. 4A team must redeploy a whole application after a small change. Which architectural characteristic of the monolith explains this deployment consequence?

   1. A.Its functionality is bundled as one self-contained deployable object.Correct answer: A
   2. B.Its functionality is packaged as independently deployable services.
   3. C.Its functionality is distributed among independently deployed clients.
   4. D.Its functionality is packaged as independently replaceable plugins.

   Explanation: The guidance defines a monolithic architecture as "A style of architecture that bundles all of the application functionality into a single self-contained distributable object." That packaging means its parts are not deployed independently.

   Reference: BCS Foundation Certificate in Digital Solution Development Syllabus Detailed Guidance V1.0 — p. 40, section 4.1.4

5. 5An enterprise records each supplier payment as an event in its business operations. Which data category best describes those payment records?

   1. A.Transaction dataCorrect answer: A
   2. B.Reference data
   3. C.Master data
   4. D.Metadata

   Explanation: The guidance defines "Transaction data" as "records of internal or external events that occur as part of business operations" and lists payments to suppliers as an example.

   Reference: BCS Foundation Certificate in Digital Solution Development Syllabus Detailed Guidance V1.0 — p. 55, section 5.1.5

6. 6A team checks a completed product against its specified quality criteria. Which quality management activity is this?

   1. A.Quality controlCorrect answer: A
   2. B.Quality assurance
   3. C.Quality planning
   4. D.Quality improvement

   Explanation: The guidance says, "Quality Control (QC) covers the measures taken to check the extent to which the product, once produced, does in fact meet the quality criteria set." That is the completed-product check described.

   Reference: BCS Foundation Certificate in Digital Solution Development Syllabus Detailed Guidance V1.0 — p. 68, section 6.1

7. 7An enterprise buys a vendor product used as supplied. Buyers can adjust its settings but cannot add code to modify its functionality. Which acquisition category describes the product?

   1. A.Commercial off-the-shelfCorrect answer: A
   2. B.Modified off-the-shelf
   3. C.Bespoke development
   4. D.Component-based hybrid

   Explanation: The guidance defines a COTS product as one "acquired from a vendor or integrator and used without modification, although configuration options may be available to change the way it works". Configuration does not by itself make it modified software.

   Reference: BCS Foundation Certificate in Digital Solution Development Syllabus Detailed Guidance V1.0 — p. 82, section 7.1.2

8. 8A security team records the intended protection outcome separately from the safeguard it chooses to implement. What is the name for that outcome statement?

   1. A.A control objectiveCorrect answer: A
   2. B.A threat event
   3. C.A security control
   4. D.A risk treatment

   Explanation: The guidance states, "A ‘control objective’ is a statement describing what is to be achieved as a result of implementing a control." This matches the team's statement.

   Reference: BCS Foundation Certificate in Digital Solution Development Syllabus Detailed Guidance V1.0 — p. 99, section 8.1.3

9. 9A team is classifying the software that provides the operating environment and database management on servers running a payroll application. Which category best describes this supporting software?

   1. A.Application software
   2. B.Systems softwareCorrect answer: B
   3. C.Embedded software
   4. D.Development tools

   Explanation: The guidance describes "Systems software: software to support the execution of applications". The payroll application solves the business problem, while the software described in the question supports its execution.

   Reference: BCS Foundation Certificate in Digital Solution Development Syllabus Detailed Guidance V1.0 — p. 4, section 1.1.2

10. 10A team replaces a service's database engine while retaining the existing business goals, service functions, response-time targets and availability targets. Which part of the definition has changed?

    1. A.The technical solutionCorrect answer: A
    2. B.The functional requirements
    3. C.The non-functional requirements
    4. D.The business objectives

    Explanation: The guidance says, "Keeping the definition of requirements and solutions separate from each other proves useful when it comes to considering changes to the software" because analysts can assess whether a change affects requirements or just the solution. Here the specified needs and service levels remain unchanged while the technology changes.

    Reference: BCS Foundation Certificate in Digital Solution Development Syllabus Detailed Guidance V1.0 — p. 11, section 2.1.1.5