Exam 2: Certification of Competency in Business Analysis

You are the business analyst for your organization. Management has asked you to create a plan that will define the proposed structure and schedule for communicating the business analysis activities to the appropriate stakeholders. What plan does management want you to create?

Henry is the business analyst for the UUH Organization. Currently Henry is working on several work products as part of the requirements development process. He may need to share these work products with the stakeholders. Which of the following is not an example of a work product?

A client wants to rehire a business analysis consulting firm for another project. The assigned business analyst (BA) developed a good rapport with the stakeholders, but delivered documents that contained lots of technical jargon that the client could not fully understand. Based on the feedback, the consulting company should:

Which element of the process of assessing the capability gaps is best described as gathering as much enterprise architecture information as is available about the current state of the organization and the areas affected by the business need?

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

A business analyst is meeting with the customer of the project. The customer tells the business analyst that she can only allow the budget of $575,000 for the project. This budget is best described as what type of constraint?

Which one of the following statements best describes requirements prioritization?

Which of the following describes business requirements, solution scope, and solution requirements?

You are working with the project stakeholders to analyze and prioritize their requirements for the project. One of the project requirements is to achieve a high-level of customer satisfaction for the project deliverable. What is the danger in this project requirement?  

A business analyst (BA) worked with two stakeholders to finalize the access rights related requirements for an internal software application. According to the first stakeholder "Comments, once entered in the application, should be stored for 365 days and should not allow the users to delete". According to the second stakeholder, "The users with super administrator privileges should be able to add/delete/modify every page/section in the entire application." Which characteristic does this pair of requirements fail to meet?

Linda is the business analyst for her organization and she's working with Joe, a new business analyst, to prioritize requirements. Joe doesn't understand why requirements need to be prioritized; as all requirements are required, they should carry equal weight in the analysis. What should Linda tell Joe as to why requirements must be prioritized?

You are the business analyst for your organization and you're notifying the key stakeholders of a need to gather requirements for an endeavor. One of the stakeholders that you'll need to attend your requirements workshop is the project manager. What role will the project manager have in this workshop?

According to the book 'A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge', effective business analysis practices can do what to the amount of change to requirements in a stable business environment?

While gathering information during a requirements workshop, a subject matter expert states that it is likely that an organizational restructure will occur in one of the business departments that will be utilizing parts of the new system. As such, the business analyst (BA) should:

When can changes to requirements occur in a business analysis planning and monitoring assignment?

Jon is a business analyst for his organization and he's preparing for the process of elicitation. How many inputs are available for Jon to use in the elicitation process?

A business analyst (BA) needs approval for the requirements which were elicited, collated, and verified by a peer. The BA needs to understand the approval process and appropriate stakeholders who have the authority to approve the requirements. Which of the following artifacts contains this information?

All of the following are inputs to the task assess organizational readiness except for which one?

You are the business analyst for your organization and you're using a plan-driven approach to business analysis processes. In this environment, what types of communications are most likely required to be used in regard to requirements?

You are a business analyst for your organization and you're working with Mary. Mary wants to know what you need to complete the process of planning the business analysis approach if you're already the business analyst for your organization. This approach helps to find out the following except for which one?