Business Analysis Practice Exam

1. Techniques to confirm elicitation results are:

a. Interviews and observation.
b. Interviews and prototyping.
c. Focus groups and observation.
d. Observation and prototyping.

2. The main difference between a focus group and a requirements workshop is:
a. Focus group participants are randomly chosen from a demographic profile.
b. Requirements workshop participants are randomly chosen from a demographic profile.
c. In a focus group, the participants are asked specific, pre-defined questions.
d. In a focus group, the participants are encouraged to discuss their requirements.

3. Techniques useful for validating requirements include:

a. Acceptance and evaluation criteria definition and metrics and key performance
indicators.
b. Data modeling and scope modeling.
c. Requirements workshops and observation.
d. Decision analysis and acceptance and evaluation criteria definition.

4. What type of requirements CANNOT be communicated by a business analyst?

a. Requirements that have been packaged.
b. Requirements that have not been stated.
c. Requirements that have been validated.
d. Stakeholder requirements.

5. An RFP (request for proposal) includes:

a. Traceability
b. Stakeholder register
c. Requirements
d. Sign-off

6. A business need:
a. Is something a particular stakeholder wants
b. Is a capability the current system does not provide
c. Defines the problem to be solved
d. Described the solution approach

7. The solution scope is needed to:

a. Define the Business Need
b. Assess Capability Gaps
c. Specify and Model Requirements
d. Define Change Strategy

8. A team that physically works together is referred to as:

a. Dispersed
b. Outsourced
c. Collocated
d. Insourced

9. To successfully communicate requirements, you ALWAYS need:

a. Requirements, a business analysis communication plan, and a requirements package
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b. Requirements in a requirements package
c. Strong presentation skills and a business analysis communication plan
d. Strong communication skills and requirements.

10. The fishbone diagram is used with:

a. Root cause analysis
b. Risk analysis
c. Decision analysis
d. SWOT analysis

11. Which of the following is a SMART objective:

a. Create a legal opinion database to decrease research time and cost.
b. Decrease legal costs by 25 percent within two years.
c. Cut legal costs by shortening research time.
d. Streamline research by providing better data access within two years.

12. A matrix that shows stakeholder influence and impact is referred to as:

a. Traceability matrix

b. Requirements matrix

c. Power/interest grid

d. Stakeholder matrix

13. Techniques useful for managing business analysis performance are:

a. Process modeling, root cause analysis, and lessons learned
b. Process modeling, data modeling, and business rules analysis
c. Acceptance and evaluation criteria definition, data modeling, and root cause analysis
d. Brainstorming, process modeling, and business rules analysis

14. Requirement attributes are:

a. Approaches to eliciting requirements.
b. Characteristics of requirements.
c. Characteristics of a data model.
d. The status of the requirements.

15. A decomposition diagram cannot show:

a. Business processes
b. Sub-processes
c. Sequence
d. Business functions

16. Requirements traceability refers to:

a. Tracing a requirement from one stakeholder to another
b. Tracing the work flowing through a business area
c. Tracing a requirement to related requirements
d. Tracing a requirement to the stakeholder who requested it

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17. You have been contracted to work as a business analyst in a company that uses a requirements
management tool. Where would you store your requirements?
a. On paper in a filing cabinet
b. In the requirements management tool
c. On a shared drive with other project deliverables
d. As described in the requirements management plan for your project

18. One of the BEST techniques to Confirm Elicitation Results is:

a. Focus groups
b. Brainstorming
c. Interview
d. Survey

19. Elicitation:
a. Is a complex word describing a complex set of tasks.
b. Describes how business analysts make conversations between stakeholders easier.
c. Means to draw forth or pull out.
d. Reflects the fact that not all business analysis wok is related to requirements.

20. What is the order of the Elicitation task:

a. Confirm Elicitation Results
b. Prepare for Elicitation
c. Diagram Elicitation Observations
d. Conduct Elicitation
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21. When you review existing requirements from prior projects and want to work with some of them
again, what are you doing?
a. Tracing requirements.
b. Reusing requirements.
c. Maintaining requirements.
d. Validating requirements.

22. Which of the following is NOT an example of a non-functional requirement:

a. Compatibility.
b. Security.
c. Performance Efficiency.
d. Capabilities.

23. Which of the following estimation methods relies on expert judgment:

a. Delphi estimation.
b. Three-point estimation.
c. Historic analysis.
d. Rolling wave estimation.

24. The Add Profile web age supports the Maintain Profile Information business process, which will
impact the objective of Increase timeliness of product information by 10%. This is an example of:
a. Requirements coverage.
b. Impact analysis.
c. Confirming requirements.

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d. Tracing requirements.

25. The purpose of a proposed solution is to:

a. Determine which requirements are satisfied by each solution component.
b. Determine if stakeholders will accept the proposed solution.
c. Determine the value that will be delivered by the solution.
d. Determine how the proposed solution will be rolled out to the business.

26. From the list, match the Risk Response Strategy with the example:

Strategies: Accept; Avoid; Enhance; Exploit; Mitigate; Share; Transfer

Strategy Example
Assign the risk to a third party by subcontracting or purchasing insurance.
Eliminate the threat of a risk by eliminating the cause.
"If it happens, it happens."
Increase the expected time, quality or monetary value of an opportunity by
increasing its probability of occurrence.
Increase the opportunity by making the cause more probable.
Reduce the impact of a risk, or the probability of it occurring.
Work with a third party to increase the opportunity.

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