I40-420 Certified Function Point Specialist Questions and Answers

Which of the following is NOT an example of the purpose of a function point count?

Conversion software is developed to convert data from the Account application to the new Relationship Management application. Five logical files in the Account application are referenced by the conversion software to create the new Client Master File in the Relationship Management application. How is the data conversion counted for the development project?

ITEM CHECK-OUT SCREEN

• Library employees use the Item Check-Out screen when a member is ready check out the book(s) and/or magazine(s) he wishes to borrow. The library employee enters the member id number, and when the employee exits the member id attribute, if the member id is valid, the member name is retrieved from the Member Information logical file and displayed in the member name attribute. The library employee enters the item type (b for book, m for magazine) and the item code; the item title is retrieved from the Book Information logical file and displayed in the item title attribute. The library employee then enters the lending date and the due date, and presses the Add button. The information is stored in the Check-Out logical file.
• Library employees use the Item Check-Out screen to update the due date of a book or magazine if a member requests additional lending time. The employee enters the member id number, and when the employee exits the member id attribute, if the member id is valid, the member name is retrieved from the Member Information logical file and displayed in the member name attribute, the library employee enters the item type (b for book, m for magazine) and the item code; the item title is retrieved from the Book Information logical file and displayed in the item title attribute and the lending date and due date are retrieved from the Check-Out logical file. The library employee then updates the due date, and presses the Update button. The new due date is stored in the Check-Out logical file.
• The head librarian receives two reports from the Library Check-Out application. The first report is the Overdue Report which is a list of overdue items categorized into < 30 days overdue, 30 - 90 days overdue and > 90 days overdue.
• The second report is the Low Usage Report that calculates which fiction books have not been checked out in the last 24 months and lists the title of those books. This report is run on demand. A High Usage Report with the number of times an item has been checked out has been put on hold and will not be released.
• A proposed Member Check-Out Report with a list of books checked-out and recommended titles will not be developed until privacy issues have been resolved.
• From the Names of Possible Functions listed identify the transactional functions for the current Library Check-Out application. Select N/A if a Name of Possible Function does not apply.

Identify the functions used:

Several data functions are described in the scenario for the Accounts Receivable fAFO application:

• From the main menu, the user selects the receive payment option.
• The receive payment option opens a screen which allows the user to enter payment information in the Payment Information logical file. The receive payment option updates the Customer Payment logical file to store the outstanding balance due. If there is no existing outstanding balance, the current balance is added to the Customer Payment logical file.
• The Currency Translation file is imported daily from the Banking Application and updates the AR application's Customer Currency logical file. The Customer Currency logical file is used by the AR application to translate the currency from the customer's local currency to the Euro. The user also maintains the country code and full country name in the Customer Currency logical file.
• The user maintains the customer name, address and account number in the Customer Information file in the AR application.
• From the main menu, the user selects the balance review option.
• The balance review option accesses the Customer Payment logical file. The balance summary option allows the user to create a balance summary report by customer. This report is viewable on the screen, can be emailed to a user, downloaded to a spreadsheet, and printed to hardcopy. For audit purposes, every balance summary report is saved to the Audit Balance Summary logical file.
• The balance detail option accesses the Customer Information, Customer Payment and Customer Currency logical files. A printed report is created that contains a list of all customers with balance changes in the current month. The balance is shown in both customer local currency and the Euro. The report also includes the customer address with country name after translating the country code using the Customer Currency logical file.

From the Names of Possible Functions listed identify the data functions for the AR application. Select N/A if a Name of Possible Function does not apply.

Identify the functions used:

The revenue and expense amounts are retrieved from the General Ledger data store without any graph below be counted?

Which rule applies to identifying a data function?

EXAM SCHEDULING SYSTEM (ESS) - EXAM SCHEDULING FUNCTIONS

• The controller uses the Maintain Exam Schedule screen to schedule exams for various courses and subjects.
• The exam serial number from the University Master logical file is entered in the screen. On pressing the Retrieve key, the exam name, controller number, finals week start date and finals week end date efe displayed from the University Master logical file. In addition, exam status, course id, subject id, exam date, start time, end time, proctor and message are displayed from Schedule Information logical file.
• The Add or Modify options allow addition/update to the course id, subject id, exam start date, start time, end time, proctor and message using the exam serial number as the key field. The data in the add/update mode gets saved in the Schedule Information logical file with the 'pending approval' in the exam status, no other data is stored.
• Course id, subject id and exam date pick lists provide data from static tables.
• The exam dates should be within the finals week start and end dates

Determine the complexity for functions listed:

Select the complexity for each function:

Which category (ies) of data entities is (are) usually identified to satisfy the Functional User Requirements?

An External Output is defined as an elementary process that:

For the scenario above calculate the FP.

The team has been asked to size the software associated with porting the Order Management system from one operating system to a different operating system. The project includes a one-time data conversion activity. Which of the following is true?

Which of the following forms of processing logic is mandatory that an EO perform at least one (m*)?

Which of the following statements about an External Inquiry are true?

The development project functional size is defined as:

Several functions are outlined within the following scenario for the Internet Application (IA):

• From the company intranet the user selects the IA application.
• The purchase item option allows the user to pay their internet shopping bill, after performing inquiry selection of items for purchase. The pay bill option updates the Customer, Inventory and Purchase History logical files.
• If this is the user's first purchase, the Customer Information screen captures information about the customer and stores it on the Customer logical file. Once the customer information is saved and the customer chooses the next option, they are returned to the Pay Bill option.
• If the user is an existing customer, they may view their customer information. The customer has the option of changing their information, but cannot delete it.
• An itemized report totaling monthly customer purchases is created at the end of each month.

From the Names of Possible Functions listed identify the transactional functions for the IA application. Select N/A if a Name of Possible Function does not apply.

Identify the functions used:

Phase 1 of an application enhancement adds 2 business function attributes to each of 3 files. No changes were made to reference the new attributes. Prior to the enhancement each of these files was valued at 3 RETs and 12 DETs. What is the CHGA of these files?

• The Organization consists of three levels of organizational hierarchy. There are one or more Groups to a Department and one or more Departments to a Division. When a Division is deleted all associated Departments and Groups are also deleted. Organization data (including all three parts) is maintained by the Payroll application.

• All the remaining tables are maintained by the HR application.
• All the remaining data is maintained by the HR application.
• The HR application stores information on the employee in the Employee logical file. Employee dependent information about the spouse and children of the employee are stored on the Employee Dependent table.
• Health insurance plan, dental insurance plan, life insurance, and accident insurance data is stored in the Benefits logical file.
• Pay rate, bonus percentage, vacation accrual rate, vacation balance, and pension accrual rate are stored on the Compensation logical file.
• Training classes attended and scheduled are stored in the Training logical file.
• The health insurance table contains the code and description for all Health Insurance plans offered to the employees for health coverage.
• The dental insurance table contains the code and description for all Dental Insurance plans offered to the employee for dental coverage

From the Names of Possible Functions listed identify the data functions for the HR application. Select N/A if a Name of Possible Function does not apply.

Identify the data functions used:

Data used by the Payroll Activity application is organized in the following logical groups:

The Absence file and Pay Period file were implemented as part of the technical solution to facilitate business transactions.

From the Names of Possible Functions listed identify the data functions for the Payroll Activity application. Select N/A if a Name of Possible Function does not apply.

Identify the data functions used:

An Assets Tracking application has a batch update process. Twice a month each of the branch offices sends a transaction file to the headquarters.

• Records are flagged with an "A" for equipment that is Added to the inventory; "C" for equipment that has been Upgraded or refurbished; "D" for equipment that has been Disposed of and is to be removed from inventory.
• A summary inventory update report will be created that totals number of inventory records added, changed and deleted broken out by equipment type. The report will be sorted by branch and will start on a new page for each change of branch.
• A detail inventory report will be available to the branches with the detail of inventory records updated.
• From the Names of Possible Functions listed identify the transactional functions for the Assets Tracking application. Select N/A if a Name of Possible Functions does not apply.

Identify the functions used.

INTERNET APPLICATION (IA) -MAINTAIN INTERNET DATA

• From the IA main menu, the IA user selects the Purchase Item option.
• The Purchase Item option opens a screen which allows the user to pay their internet shopping bill after performing an inquiry of the items selected for purchase. The Pay Bill option updates the Customer logical file to store the date of last purchase. The Inventory logical file is updated to determine when stock is depleted. The Inventory logical file contains the following information: product id, units of measure, count of product on hand, count of product on order, count of product on back-order, and reorder point.
• The Product logical file is maintained by the PARTS application. Product contains product id, description, expected life of product, category, manufacturer, SKU, and weight.
• Upon the customer's first purchase, the Customer Information screen captures the following information about the customer and stores it on the Customer logical file which includes: customer number, name, street address, state/province/region, country, postal code, payment type, gender, and future email offer flag.
• The Purchase History logical file (PHF) is used to contain the history of customer purchases. The PHF contains a demographics section which contains the following: customer number, gender, product category, product id, and purchase frequency. The other part of the PHF contains information pertaining to the cost of purchases: customer number, purchase date, quantity, purchase cost, expected life of product. An additional part of the PHF contains information about email offers sent to the customer. This part of the PHF contains information: date of email, product id, sale price, sale end date, and offer end date.
• The purchase cost is stored in the PHF in US Dollars after conversion from the customer's local currency using the Currency logical file. The Currency logical file contains the following information: country currency converting from, country currency converting to, conversion rate, date and time of conversion rate.

Determine the complexity of the data functions:

Determine the complexity of the following function:

The Stock Purchasing (SP) and Point of Sale (POS) applications have the following requirements.

• The POS application maintains details of customer purchases in the Item Purchases logical file.
• The SP application is used to place orders with suppliers based on daily inventory levels.
• The SP application is used to maintain supplier information. The Supplier Information logical file contains descriptions of items the supplier stocks and supplier contact information.
• The Inventory logical file is maintained by the SP application through a daily batch process which references the Item Purchases logical file.
• When the batch process is complete, the SP application displays a list of items that are below 20% of normal inventory levels. The user selects items to be ordered and specifies the supplier. The SP application then generates a purchase order for each supplier. The purchase orders are sent electronically to each supplier and stored in the Order logical file.
• From the Names of Possible Functions listed identify the data function both the SP and POS applications. Select N/A if a Name of Possible Function does not apply.

Identify the functions used:

CORPORATE INFORMATION SYSTEM (CIS) - EMPLOYEE DATA TRANSFER

• From the CIS main menu, the CIS user selects the Transfer Employee Data option.
• The Transfer Employee Data option creates a transaction file of CIS Employee logical file records that have a status flag equal to Add or Change. Each record in the transaction file contains employee badge number, first name, last name, phone number, facility, supervisor badge number, organization, job code, and status flag.
• The CIS transaction file is written to the Financial System (FS) server's temporary file work area. This data transfer is a user requirement for both applications.
• From the FS main menu, the FS user selects the Load Employee Data option.
• The Load Employee Data option accesses the CIS transaction file from the FS server's temporary file work area. The Load Employee Data option processes the input records according to the status flag, initiating different processing logic for Add and Change. The Load Employee Data option loads all attributes from each record to the FS, except the status flag.
• As part of the same elementary process, when an employee is being Added or Changed to the FS Employee logical file it also saves the employee's pay grade code, retrieved from the Payroll System.
• Both applications have a requirement to access a version of the Employee logical file.

Determine the complexity for the functions listed.

Select the complexity for each function:

The Robot Automation Program (RAP) is an application which allows factory technicians to create and edit the weld placement programs for various robots on the assembly line. Both transactions maintain the Weld Specification and Robot logical files.

The use may select and view reboot details:

The user may print individual welding program details:

From the Names of Possible Functions listed identify the transactional functions for the RAP application. Select N/A if a Name of Possible Functions does not apply.

Identify the functions used:

In FP count calculations, the term DEL is the size of the function being:

The High Point grocery store has implemented a frequent buyer program. Discounts on various products will be provided as an incentive for customers to register in the program. The Frequent Buyer (FB) application is being built to collect and store the customer information and to keep track of the purchasing patterns of the customers.

• The customers will fill out a form providing their contact information and other demographic information
• FB users will use the Customer screen to Add Customer information in the Customer Master logical file.
• FB users also use the Customer screen to View Customer information and Change Customer Information.
• The Customer List report lists all customers and is available for display by selecting the Customer List report option from the Main Menu.

• From the Names of Possible Functions listed identify the base functional components for the FB application. Select N/A if a Name of Possible Function Type does not apply.

Which type of functional size (FS) measures the functionality added, changed, or deleted at the completion of an enhancement project?

Which of the following statements is true?

Which of the following defines the user view?

The application functional size after an enhancement project does NOT include the size of the:

Which type of functional size (F5) measures the functions provided to the users with the first installation of the software?

A development project has created 450 FP in application functionality and created 45 FP in conversion functionality. What is the DFP?

The Human Resources Tracking application (HRT) is used to follow the status of all applicants to the company. When an applicant resume is received, the user immediately scans the applicant's resume using the HRT scan new applicant function. HRT assigns an applicant number to the resume image, saves the number and resume image to the Applicant ILF, and sends an email notification to the hiring manager. What transaction(s) would be counted for the new applicant function?

Within the Human Resources Application, information for an employee is added by entering general information. In addition to the general information, the employee is either a salaried employee or hourly employee. Each type of employee has unique attributes. Either type of employee can have information about dependents. How many RETs are described in this scenario?

Identify the potential EI from the following activities: