Question 1

A customer has provided a business analyst (BA) with many business requirements and some have inter-dependencies with other requirements. To ensure the requirements are delivered according to customer expectations, which requirements attribute should the BA consider including in the project requirements document?

Accepted Answer

Constraints are attributes that can affect the delivery of requirements. By including constraints in the project requirements document, the BA can ensure that the requirements are delivered according to customer expectations.

Question 2

A business analyst (BA) has defined a business analysis approach and presented the documents to the sponsors, the senior executives, the domain experts, the project manager, and the head of technology, to obtain agreement from all. At this juncture, the project manager objected to some of the estimates determined in the budget and refused to agree with the estimates. Which guideline or tool, if followed by the BA, would have helped in avoiding such disagreements?

Accepted Answer

The Stakeholder Engagement Approach helps in understanding and managing stakeholder expectations, which could have helped in aligning the project manager's expectations regarding the budget estimates.

Question 3

A business analyst (BA) has a meeting next week with the project sponsor to ensure that the requirements align with the objective of the project. Prior to the meeting, the BA must ensure that the requirements are:

Accepted Answer

The answer of A business analyst (BA) has a meeting...

Question 4

A company is about to embark upon a large organizational change initiative that involves restructuring its service offerings. A senior business analyst (BA) is assigned the work of establishing performance measures for the business analysis work to be performed by the BA team. Which of the following performance measures is appropriate to assess the value delivered by the work products against the cost, time, and resource investments expended to create them?

Accepted Answer

The answer of A company is about to embark upon...

Question 5

During a retrospective, the project team agrees the way they organized the user stories during the first sprint could be improved. The business analyst (BA) plans to make the stories more accessible going forward. Which of the following will the BA update?

Accepted Answer

The BA will update the Information Management Approach to improve how user stories are organized and accessed, ensuring better accessibility and management of information.

Question 6

A business analyst (BA) is assessing the different solution proposals. What type of financial calculation would the BA use to determine which solution is worth investing in based on its breakeven point?

Accepted Answer

Net present value (NPV) is a financial calculation that measures the present value of a future stream of cash flows. It is used to determine the profitability of an investment by comparing the present value of the cash inflows to the present value of the cash outflows. The breakeven point is the point at which the NPV is equal to zero.

Question 7

Due to the complexity of a project, the project board is concerned that the business analyst (BA) will not be able to ensure all requirements are verified. What tool can the BA present to the project board to mitigate their concern?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Due to the complexity of a project,...

Question 8

A software company has won a contract to implement its product for a client. As part of the implementation work, a business analyst (BA) is asked to elicit information about the other client applications that will integrate with the new system and provide the information graphically. The technical staff needs to understand the message interaction within the systems for key business transactions. Which type of diagram should the BA use?

Accepted Answer

A Sequence diagram is used to show how objects interact in a particular scenario of a use case, focusing on the sequence of messages exchanged between the systems for key business transactions.

Question 9

A business analyst (BA) is working on improving solution performance and increasing value. The BA discovers that a set of interfaces and activities do not contribute to the final product either directly or indirectly. What should the BA recommend?

Accepted Answer

The BA should recommend removing or minimizing interfaces and activities that do not provide value to the final product to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

Question 10

You are the business analyst for a smaller project where there are few requirements. Management would still like you to create a method to trace the few requirements for this project. What type of matrix would be best in this instance?

Accepted Answer

The answer of You are the business analyst for a...

Question 11

A business analyst (BA) was tasked with eliciting requirements for a new product scheduling system. The BA interviewed and discussed the requirements with the manager and supervisor. The requirements were written and approved by both the supervisor and manager. Which stakeholders were missed in the requirements?

Accepted Answer

The answer of A business analyst (BA) was tasked with...

Question 12

A business analyst (BA) is assigned to a project which has two main stakeholders: a highly regulated government agency and a less formal private company. To select the business analysis approach, the BA will conduct a meeting with representatives from each entity to decide on the level of formality needed for requirements and design specifications. During the meeting, what should the BA's strategy be?

Accepted Answer

The answer of A business analyst (BA) is assigned to...

Question 13

All of the following stakeholders participate in the prioritization of requirements except for which one?

Accepted Answer

The project team as a whole does not typically participate in the prioritization of requirements; this task is usually handled by specific roles such as the project manager, domain experts, and implementation experts.

Question 14

A conservative company with rigorous risk control plans and internal audit rules has a recurrent problem with a core business application. As a result, access to this application must be restricted and controlled and maintenance must be on-site. However, the company feels that the application must have an emergency service team. The routine maintenance of this solution is provided by an external vendor and the vendor requested 24 hours remote access to quality and production data. In this context, what is the company's response to the vendor's request?

Accepted Answer

The answer of A conservative company with rigorous risk control...

Question 15

Following a recent, successful deployment, a business analyst (BA) has noticed that several of the requirements are candidates for reuse in multiple upcoming change initiatives. Which type of requirement is a potential candidate for re-use?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Following a recent, successful deployment, a business...

Question 16

An automobile manufacturer is undertaking a project intended to modify or replace the company's current timekeeping system. Negative employee reaction to change follows as word of the proposed solution spreads throughout the company. What could a business analyst (BA) do to prevent or reduce employee discontent?

Accepted Answer

The answer of An automobile manufacturer is undertaking a project...

Question 17

Before investing further in the project, a customer and the key stakeholders of the project want to be able to visualize the final product. Which elicitation technique should the business analyst (BA) select?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Before investing further in the project, a...

Question 18

A business analyst (BA) asks participants in a workshop to write down their ideas about the feature being built on sticky notes, place them on the wall, and then group the ideas into similar themes. The BA is using this technique to:

Accepted Answer

This technique is known as affinity mapping or affinity diagramming, which is used to organize ideas and encourage stakeholder collaboration by grouping similar ideas together.

Question 19

While reviewing the data feeds on a project the business analyst (BA) realizes there is a feed that contains complex relationships. In order to help understand the data and accurately reflect a set of requirements the BA decides to prioritize the requirements. What modeling format could the BA use?

Accepted Answer

The answer of While reviewing the data feeds on a...

Question 20

A business analyst (BA) is compiling a communication plan by reviewing stakeholders and identifying the needs of the stakeholders. The BA organizes the stakeholders based on their needs and decides that all communication will be handled through e-mail so that information can be disseminated quickly and easily while maintaining a record. What has the BA missed in the stakeholder analysis?

Accepted Answer

The answer of A business analyst (BA) is compiling a...

Exam 1: Certified Business Analysis Professional