Requirements Modeling

Overview

The CPRE Requirements Modeling module provides the necessary skills to enable you to model requirements visually and thus present complex relationships in an understandable way. Requirements presented in textual form can often be unclear or misleading. This module teaches you techniques for modeling information structures, use cases, and dynamic views to enable you to design your projects successfully.

Audience

This module is aimed at people in the areas of RE, business analysis, business engineering, software architecture, software and system development, and systems engineering, for example, project managers, business analysts, requirements engineers, product owners, systems engineers, testers, and architects. Learn how to visualize your requirements clearly and comprehensibly and improve the quality of your results.

Designing Precision: CPRE Requirements Modeling

With the CPRE Requirements Modeling specialization, move beyond words to structured, visual clarity. Learn to represent requirements through diagrams, structures, and scenarios—ensuring precision and shared understanding across teams.

Build skills in use case modeling, information structures, and dynamic views to support high-quality system design from the ground up.

Exam Structure

No. of Questions: approx. 45
Total Points: 40
Passing Score: 26
Exam Length (mins): 75 (+25% Non-Native Language)

Approx. Total Questions

Passing Score 65%

Content

Basics of requirements modeling
Learn about the motivation behind requirements modeling, its fields of application and key terms, and get an overview of views and languages, as well as the integration of textual requirements. Learn about the advantages of requirements modeling and how you can ensure the quality of models.
Context modeling in Requirements Engineering
Learn the purpose and basic concepts of context modeling. Learn how to use data flow diagrams and other types of modeling to represent context, as well as how to understand the notation and rules for creating these models.
Information structure view in requirements modeling
Understand the modeling of information structures, including classes, attributes, and data types. Learn how to model simple relationships, aggregations, compositions, generalizations, and specializations, and gain insight into more advanced concepts.

Dynamic Views in Requirements Modeling

Gain an overview of dynamic views and their role in requirements modeling. Understand use case modeling, including how to identify and specify use cases, utilize data flow and activity diagrams, and apply stateful modeling using state machines.

Scenario Modeling in Requirements Engineering

Learn the fundamentals of scenario modeling and how to represent scenarios using sequence and communication diagrams. Explore both basic and advanced techniques and how to apply them effectively in practice

Understand and apply modeling techniques
Evaluate and improve model quality
Create use cases, structure, and scenario models
Use diagrams: data flow, activity, state machines
Integrate and link models effectively

Skills Taught

Key skills you will acquire through this module:

Knowledge of the basics of modeling requirements
Evaluation of the quality of requirements models
Purpose-related selection of modeling techniques
Modeling of information structures
Creation of use case diagrams and use case specifications
Specification of requirements using data flow, activity, and state machine diagrams
Scenario modeling
Model integration and use of cross-relationships between models

Training and certification

The CPRE Foundation certificate (Level 1) is a prerequisite for the thematic deepening at the next level; alternatively, a BCS Practitioner certificate in RE is also accepted:

Level 2 | CPRE Requirements Modeling Practitioner

This certification allows you to learn the content and build the skills necessary to model requirements effectively. You will receive the certificate after successfully passing the multiple-choice exam.
The CPRE Requirements ModelingPractitioner certificate (Level 2) entitles you to aim for the certificate at the next level:

Level 3 | CPRE Requirements Modeling Specialist

This certification proves that you have the skills necessary to successfully apply requirements modeling in various project situations. The examination is conducted by means of a written assignment in the student’s own project context.