Examination type

1 hour open-book, scenario-based examination preceded by 15 minutes reading time

Syllabus Summary

Holders of the ISEB Certificate in Systems Development Essentials should be able to:

• Identify the tasks and disciplines required for systems development and implementation
• Investigate a system
• Interpret business requirements and produce systems requirements
• Quality assure the systems requirements documentation
• Design test cases for the requirements
• Describe the commonly-used development lifecycles defined in the syllabus
• Describe in detail one methodology that embraces one (or more) of these lifecycles
• Describe the structure and activities of this methodology
• Describe, interpret and quality assure the key models that the selected methodology uses for defining the process, static and event perspectives of the system
• Make effective use of different methods of interpersonal communications
• Quality assure the systems requirements documentation
• Identify different architectures for systems development solutions
• Conduct a system review
• Explain how CASE tools might be used to support the method

Pre-requisites

There are no specific pre-requisites for entry to the examination, however candidates should be suitably prepared and possess the appropriate skills and knowledge to fulfil the objectives above.

Preparation

Our course Systems Development Essentials with Agile prepares you for this examination. The examination is taken at the end of the course.

Course dates

The examination can also be taken directly

Exam dates

This is a core certificate in the ISEB Diploma in Solution Development and a specialist certificate in the ISEB Diploma in Business Analysis.