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Question 1

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When planning the communication activities for business analysis, you will be planning for interactions with stakeholders. There are needs and constraints of the stakeholders to keep in mind. Which of the following is not one of these considerations?
Answer
  • Physical location/time zone of the stakeholders
  • The authority level of the stakeholder
  • Organizational dictated communication events
  • What types of requirements will be elicited from whom and how best to elicit these

Question 2

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__________ is the formal approval of a set of requirements by a sponsor or other decision maker.
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  • Requirements Management
  • Requirements Signoff
  • Requirements Validation
  • Requirements Verification

Question 3

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What type of rules defines rules an organization chooses to enforce as a matter of policy? These guide the actions of people working within the business.
Answer
  • Structural Rules
  • Action Enablers
  • Operative Rules
  • Fact Rules

Question 4

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A __________ is an informal solicitation of proposals from vendors.
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  • Request for Quote (RFQ)
  • Request for Proposal (RFP)
  • Request for Information (RFI)
  • Statement of Work

Question 5

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The business case articulates the projected cost/benefit and risk assessment, but most importantly defines:
Answer
  • Timeline for implementation of the solution
  • How the cost/benefit will be measured
  • Defines the Project Charter
  • Method of ROI

Question 6

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Which type of methodology approach is less impacted by the risk of late identification of stakeholders? Late stakeholder identification may result in requirement revision, project plan revision, increased costs and customer dissatisfaction.
Answer
  • Change-driven Methodology Approach
  • Plan-driven Methodology Approach
  • Waterfall Methodology
  • No methodology will provide protection against the risk of late stakeholder identification

Question 7

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There are many approaches that organizations can use as a basis for prioritizing requirements. Which of the following will prioritize requirements based on demands posed by forces outside the project's stakeholder desires?
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  • Likelihood of Success
  • Business or Technical Risk
  • Regulatory or Policy Compliance
  • Business Value

Question 8

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Which Knowledge Area describes how business analysts manage conflicts, issues, changes, how the requirements are communicated to stakeholders, and how requirements are used by business analysts in the future?
Answer
  • Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
  • Solution Assessment and Validation
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Requirements Management and Communication

Question 9

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A(n) __________ prototype is continuously modified and updated in response to feedback from users.
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  • Horizontal
  • Vertical
  • Evolutionary
  • Throw-away

Question 10

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What does the acronym SMART represent in relation to converting business goals into descriptive objectives?
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  • Specific, Measurable, Accountable, Realistic, Time-framed
  • Specific, Measurable, Agreed-upon, Relevant, Traced
  • Smart, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bounded
  • Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bounded

Question 11

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In assessing solution options, the business analyst is reviewing options for the solution that will best meet the stakeholder and solution requirements, however there is another consideration. What is that other consideration?
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  • There are no other considerations; else the business analyst will be wowed by the bells and whistles that provide no business value
  • Focus not only on the release scope but also the product vision
  • Identification of potential capabilities
  • Determine the option that is the most cost effective

Question 12

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The output of Conduct Elicitation Activity task is:
Answer
  • Appropriate documentation based on technique and stakeholder--Elicitation Results
  • Issue Listing
  • Metrics
  • Traceability

Question 13

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Which of the following stakeholders will approve the business case and authorize funding?
Answer
  • Sponsor
  • Domain SME
  • Implementation SME
  • Project Manager

Question 14

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Which Knowledge Area involves the task of securing approval of requirements?
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  • Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
  • Elicitation
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Requirements Management and Communication

Question 15

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You are embarking on a large initiative in which the plan is to follow a change-driven methodology approach. How do you approach planning of the business analysis activities?
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  • Create a high-level plan for the long term and detailed plans to address near-term activities with expectations that this high-level plan will be revisited as priorities change
  • Create a plan that will elaborate all the detailed requirements for the initiative up-front, and then support the development staff in prioritization for implementation
  • Ask the PM for the Project Plan of the business analysis activities
  • Focus on the near-term activities created detailed plans incrementally

Question 16

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What does the square represent in the diagram below?
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  • Entity
  • Data Store
  • Data Process
  • Data Flow

Question 17

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Which Knowledge Area describes how business analysts assess proposed solutions to determine which solution best fits the business needs, identifies, gaps, determines workarounds or changes to solution, assess attainment of original need?
Answer
  • Elicitation
  • Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
  • Solution Assessment and Validation
  • Enterprise Analysis

Question 18

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You, as a business analyst, find that some of the terminologies that you hear discussed in various interviews seem to have different meanings across the areas of the organization. As you analyze the information from these elicitation sessions, what technique would be the best to use of the following choices?
Answer
  • Metadata Definition
  • Glossary or Data Dictionary
  • Business Rules Analysis
  • Document Analysis

Question 19

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A coverage matrix is a table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing. When is this technique typically used?
Answer
  • Used when the initiative needs to trace large numbers of requirements
  • Used to identify missing requirements or requirements resulting from gold-plating
  • Used when there are relatively few requirements or when tracing is limited to high-level requirements
  • Used to track completion of business analysis activities

Question 20

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When embarking on a project, the Business Analyst should expect that an established means of managing the requirements is needed for which of the following reasons:
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  • Eliciting, analyzing, and documenting the requirements
  • Baseline process, change management, traceability procedures, storing data about the requirements to aid in the management of the requirements
  • Providing training upon implementation, knowledge transfer and conducting lessons learned sessions
  • Establishing the repository, guard against ambiguous requirements, and negotiation of departmental conflicts

Question 21

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This diagram depicts:
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Answer
  • Organizational Hierarchy
  • Organization Structure
  • Process Hierarchy
  • Functional Decomposition

Question 22

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Interface Analysis could lead to further analysis and the utilization of additional elicitation techniques. Which of the following are appropriate for eliciting additional information when a user interface is involved?
Answer
  • Prototype
  • Interview
  • Document Analysis
  • Interface Analysis does not require further elicitation

Question 23

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When key stakeholders are widely dispersed, the project instantly becomes more complex. The BA should factor into his planning of business analysis activities which of the following for dispersed stakeholders?
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  • Distance, Time Zones, Cultural and Language differences
  • Affect on planning, solution development, testing, and implementation
  • Collaborative technology availability
  • Distance, cultural differences, affect on project activities, and availability of collaborative technology

Question 24

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As the business analyst performs requirements analysis, he/she typically develops models (domain model) for all of the following purposes except:
Answer
  • Validation of scope with business and technical stakeholders
  • Analyzing the current state of the organization
  • Develop the business analysis plan
  • Identify opportunities for improvement

Question 25

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A __________ is a point-in-time view of requirements that have been reviewed and agreed upon to serve as a basis for further development.
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  • Baseline
  • Requirements Package
  • Business Case
  • Requirements Document

Question 26

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Which of the following is a common reason for using third party vendors and conducting Vendor Assessments?
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  • Third party vendors can provide knowledge and expertise not available within the organization
  • Obtain new innovative products
  • Relationships are easy to maintain with third party vendors
  • The analysis of multiple third party vendors keeps business analysts busy

Question 27

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In which of the following situations would you not choose document analysis as an elicitation technique?
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  • SMEs for the existing solution are no longer with the organization
  • No SME availability
  • Aids in building questions that can be directed to the appropriate stakeholders
  • Completely new product or offering in the market place

Question 28

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In reference to the Diagram below, what is representative of the circle?
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  • Chance or Uncertain Event
  • Decision
  • Terminator
  • Event

Question 29

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If a solution is consistently producing unacceptable outputs, what technique would be most appropriate to employ?
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  • Sequence Diagram
  • Risk Analysis
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Problem Tracking

Question 30

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As a business analyst working on the implementation of a customer relationship management module for global insurance company, you find that a group of stakeholders located at the corporate headquarters are expressing business needs without regard to the impact on regional employees. The regional employees have not been actively involved or identified as key stakeholders, but you know they will be negatively impacted. Which behavioral characteristic will lead you to escalate this issue to ensure fair treatment for regional employees?
Answer
  • Trustworthiness
  • Ethics
  • Leadership and Influencing
  • Teamwork

Question 31

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Which skill demonstrates an effective understanding for people, processes, and technology and how these interact within the organization through relationship and patterns to create a whole system?
Answer
  • Organizational Knowledge
  • Systems Thinking
  • Industry Knowledge
  • Creative Thinking

Question 32

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Which of the following is a disadvantage of written communication?
Answer
  • Provides a record to be used after creation
  • Provides a format in which large amounts of data can be collected
  • Dependent on authors' command of vocabulary and understanding of what communication will be readily understood
  • Can be constructed in different contexts and to meet the needs of different audiences

Question 33

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What is a target or metric that a person or organization seeks to meet in order to progress towards a goal?
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  • Monitor
  • Objective
  • Benchmark
  • Baseline

Question 34

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Which of the following would provide a graphic of the stakeholder categorization?
Answer
  • Use Case Diagram and Activity Diagram
  • Process Modeling and User Personas
  • Stakeholder List, Roles and Responsibilities and RACI Matrix
  • Stakeholder Matrix and Stakeholder Onion Diagram

Question 35

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When a business analyst is preparing to educate an implementation SME about the business context in which the solution will be implemented, the business analyst chooses to use some visual guides and models. What type of learner is the business analyst assuming the implementation SME is?
Answer
  • Auditory learner
  • Kinesthetic learner
  • Visual learner
  • There is no consideration for learning styles as all individuals find visuals appropriate.

Question 36

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In order to successfully Manage Solution Scope and Requirements, which of the following inputs are required?
Answer
  • Plan, Boundaries, Stakeholder Involvement, and Requirements
  • Solution Requirements, Scope, Plan
  • User Approval, Baseline Procedure, Formal Sign-off Meeting
  • Problem Tracking, Risk Assessment, Requirement Tracing

Question 37

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Working in the United States, your project was originally slated for in-house development utilizing Agile methodology with a collocated team to include all key stakeholders. A change in direction has been made to outsource the development to India. You must instantly re-plan the requirement deliverable content. What approach do you recommend?
Answer
  • Detailed documentation and acceptance criteria with frequent review sessions (vehicle TBD)
  • Continue the approach currently planned utilizing collaborative tools and changing the work schedule(s)
  • Move a key US based group to India for the duration of the project and plan for final approval session close to implementation of the project
  • Move to a Plan-Driven Approach, in particular the Waterfall Methodology.

Question 38

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Which of the following Data Modeling diagrams is preferred if object-oriented development is being used on a project?
Answer
  • Entity Relationship Model
  • Class Model
  • Activity Diagram with Swimlanes
  • Use Case Diagram

Question 39

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The tasks within all the Knowledge Areas are likely to be performed by:
Answer
  • Proceeding in the following order Enterprise Analysis, Requirements Analysis, and Solution Assessment and Validation with the other Knowledge Area tasks occurring throughout the lifecycle
  • Following the BABOK as it defines the Knowledge Area tasks in the order in which they are to be performed
  • Performing all the tasks simultaneously
  • In rapid succession, iteratively and simultaneously as long as required inputs are available

Question 40

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A business analyst may generate new business needs through which of the following?
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  • Identification of organization's strategic plans and goals
  • Problems with the current process, function or system
  • Project requests
  • Analysis approaches (top down or bottom up), additional functionality or information requested by middle management, and customer demand/market pressures

Question 41

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In assessing an organization's readiness, what input does the business analyst rely on to provide the current state of the organization to include the org structure, processes, systems, information, application, security structure, etc?
Answer
  • Designed Solution
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Stakeholder Concerns
  • Solution Scope

Question 42

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Which of the following is a component of the solution scope?
Answer
  • Solution component capabilities
  • Allocation of capabilities supported by releases or iterations
  • Enabling capabilities required to meet the business need
  • The scope of analysis which provides the context in which the solution is implemented

Question 43

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Which plan will serve as input to Communicate Requirements task?
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  • Business Analysis Management Plan
  • Requirements Management Plan
  • Business Analysis Communication Plan
  • Project Plan

Question 44

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Which stakeholder would be concerned with the business analysis plan to determine the level of commitment that will be required of them?
Answer
  • Tester
  • Domain SME
  • Sponsor
  • Implementation SME

Question 45

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Which of the following is not a technique utilized to complete the Verify Requirements task?
Answer
  • Requirements Workshop
  • Problem Tracking
  • Structured Walkthrough
  • Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria Definition

Question 46

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The purpose of __________ is to generate new ideas that can produce some themes for further analysis.
Answer
  • Focus Groups
  • Interviews
  • Brainstorming
  • Workshops

Question 47

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Which of the following is the output of Validation Solution utilized by Evaluate Solution Performance Task?
Answer
  • Mitigating Actions
  • Identified Defects
  • Solution Validation Assessment
  • Requirements [Allocated]

Question 48

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Which Prepare Requirements Package input best describes the stakeholder groups and their communication needs?
Answer
  • Organizational Process Assets
  • Requirements
  • Requirement Structure
  • Business Analysis Communication Plan

Question 49

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Three elements are involved in utilizing the Problem Tracking technique. What are these three?
Answer
  • Description of the Problem, Action Needed to Resolve and Completion Date of the Action
  • Creating the Problem Record, Managing the Problem, and Capturing Metrics
  • Utilize: Root Cause Analysis technique; Metrics and key performance indicators; Structure Walkthrough
  • Communicate the problem across the team, keep a record, and resolve problem

Question 50

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As a business analyst, what are the considerations for constructing the business analysis communication plan?
Answer
  • The Organizational Process Assets will guide your communication plan
  • Time and resource constraints
  • What will you communicate, to whom, how will you deliver the communication (appropriate delivery method), and when will these communications occur
  • Simply the needs of the stakeholders
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